Lou Sullivan

Drawn from Sullivan's meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives.

The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991

We Both Laughed in Pleasure

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"When people ask me at work 'What do you want for yourself in the future?', how can I tell them that I just want to be a man?"

as a transman myself this was really really a good book for me it helped me i understood things i couldn't before it's an eye-opener

Eva Decker

It feels improper to rate this book, because, well, this was Lou’s life. How do you rate a life?

“For our whole lives, our bodies are the only things we have here on earth. Life here is the body. Death is leaving the body behind.”

Lou would’ve turned 70 in 2021, and I’m sad that he didn’t get to.

We Both Laughed in Pleasure The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991

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