By Lou Sullivan, 1974
“Looking Toward Transvestite Liberation.” Published in GPU News, February/March 1974. Archived at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Libraries.
Asserting that transvestism was one response to sex role oppression, Sullivan, employing the rhetoric of gay liberation, argued that “‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’ are not natural to anyone.” Moving from Milwaukee to San Francisco in 1975, Sullivan who until then, had presented as a female, masculine-identified person whose desire was directed toward gay men, began hormone treatment. As Louis Sullivan, he was instrumental in the formation of the first organized FTM community in the US.
