We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selecte – Sullivan, Lou

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SKU: 9781643620176 Category:
Author: Sullivan, Lou
Editor: Martin, Ellis Ozma, Zach
Preface by: Stryker, Susan
Publication Date: 09/24/2019
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Binding: Paperback
Media: Book

Description

2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER

FINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD

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 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.