We Both Laughed In Pleasure
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD
We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan is drawn from Lou Sullivan's meticulously kept journals, recording the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.
This landmark book narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian, and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives.
Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan's self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure.
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2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD
We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan is drawn from Lou Sullivan's meticulously kept journals, recording the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.
This landmark book narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian, and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives.
Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan's self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure.
