Lavender and Red
Leslie Feinberg’s series on LGBTQ history, “Lavender & Red,” appeared in the Workers World newspaper in 2004-2008.
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Category: History
Biography History Nonfiction
Magnus Hirschfeld and the Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement. Revered by such gay icons as Christopher Isherwood and Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, Hirschfeld’s legacy resonates throughout the twentieth-century and around the world. Guided by his motto “Through Science Toward Justice,” Hirschfeld helped found the Scientific Humanitarian…
Biography History Journal/Diary Nonfiction
Becoming a Visible Man
At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies. Since the first edition’s publication, author Jamison Green’s writings and advocacy among business and governmental organizations around the world have…
Biography History Journal/Diary Nonfiction
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991
We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay trans man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age eleven until his AIDS-related death at thirty-nine. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and…
History Nonfiction Reference/Guide/Manual Social Sciences
Hijras, Sangomas, and Their Translects
This essay focuses on hijras in India and on male women sangomas in Zulu gender-differentiated possession cults in South Africa. We approach these individuals through the travelling concept of “translects”, in the sense in which hijras and sangomas as “transgender individuals” cultivating a culture-specific, gender liminality use words to refer to themselves, their body parts,…
Anthology Biography Essay History Nonfiction Photography Social Sciences
The Phallus Palace
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…
Essay History Nonfiction
Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman: Searching for the Trans in Western Gender History
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.
History Nonfiction
The Trouble with Cross-Dressers: Researching and Writing the History of Sexual and Gender Transgressiveness in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Gender transgression in the American “Wild West”
Archive History Social Sciences Theory
A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers
Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of Geographers The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+…
Archive Essay History
Queens In Exile, The Forgotten Ones
Sylvia Rivera – Queens in Exile, The Forgotten Ones From Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle. Untorelli Press, 2013.