Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn, featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating,…
In 2017, Meanwhile, Elsewhere, a large, strange, and devastatingly touching anthology of science fiction and fantasy from transgender authors was released onto the world. The collection received rave acclaim and won the ALA Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Literature Award. When its original publisher went out of business, the book fell out of print, and…
Trans Rent Boys: Love Don’t Pay the Rent, est une petite collection de courts écrits en anglais, rédigés par des travailleurs du sexe transsexuels basés au Royaume-Uni, en Europe, en Australie et à Aotearoa/NZ.
Trans Rent Boys: Love Don’t Pay the Rent, is a small collection of short writings in English, by trans boy sex workers based in the UK, Europe, Australia, and Aotearoa/NZ.
We’re here. We’re queer. We’re fat. This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging and established queer and trans writers from around the world. Celebrating fat and queer bodies and lives, this book challenges negative and damaging representations of queer and fat bodies and…
“Trans Mayhem! Anger! Love! Truth!” A trans zine from 1997. Includes articles “a tranny at Sister Subverter,” “Bitch Hips: Chicago’s Trans-fronted punk-rock band!,” and “M2B” among other comics, artworks, and more.
After a party on the Las Vegas strip, a young sissy must choose between her internet fantasy of forced feminization at the hands of mysterious handsome man, or the difficult reality of transition with the help of a cynical veteran transsexual woman. From Torrey Peters comes a dark new novella about online sissy culture, female-masking,…
LGBTQ Activist reflections on the legacy of USA’s 40th President – quotes and stories. Compiled by Queers for Economic Justice June 15, 2004.
Latino Gay Men of New York (LGMNY), a social group established in 1991, invited the Bronx-born, Venezuelan/Puerto Rican Stonewall veteran, transgender activist, and Young Lords member Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002) to be a guest speaker at its monthly “First Friday of the Month” meeting in June 2001. This meeting was organized as a celebration of LGBT…
Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she’s endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against…