“Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba” is a compilation of 25 articles about same-sex love and sex/gender variance in Cuba’s pre- and post-revolutionary history. These articles make up parts 86 to 110 of the Lavender & Red series, which has run as a feature in Workers World weekly newspaper since the first article appeared in…
Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand offers methods that will help social workers, researchers, and students create HIV/AIDS intervention services for gay men, lesbians, and transgender individuals in or from Thailand. Many of these methods can also be used by practitioners or HIV/AIDS educators in North America and…
Leslie Feinberg’s series on LGBTQ history, “Lavender & Red,” appeared in the Workers World newspaper in 2004-2008.
The third issue of Gendertrash From Hell, a zine produced by and for transsexual and transgender people. This issue contains a variety of submissions ranging from poetry, artwork, and articles regarding trans activism.
Transition memoir, structured around the experience of hormonal transition. Valerio writes a lot about how his politics and assumptions as a lesbian feminist were challenged and made more complex by the experience of FtM transition, reflecting on his changing inner experience and social reception. Valerio is an American Indian (Blackfoot)/Latino poet, performer, and writer.
An anthology ‘coffee table’ book on FTM transition. There are images and profile-interviews with trans men, essays on topics like sacred spirituality and trans men in history. All in all, a bit of an odd collection but also an interesting time capsule. Caution! Kotula’s photography includes step-by-step images of surgery-in-process (which may or may not…
On 30 March 2020, the Hungarian parliament approved emergency measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, granting prime minister Viktor Orbán the power to rule by decree. The very next day, the government repealed the legal recognition of transgenderism, ruling that assignations of biological sex are binary and permanent. The decision to place sexual difference…
An overview of the history of gender and sexuality in the Great Plains
A look at the concept of transgender identity in the “Wild West” of the United States, mostly focused on people we might now refer to as transgender men.
Sylvia Rivera – Queens in Exile, The Forgotten Ones From Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle. Untorelli Press, 2013.