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Smith, Brice D.
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Sullivan, Lou, 1951-1991.
Transgender people -- Biography.
Transgender people -- Identity.
Female-to-male transsexuals -- Biography.
Gay activists -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Smith, Brice D.
Sullivan, Lou, 1951-1991.
Transgender people -- Biography.
Transgender people -- Identity.
Female-to-male transsexuals -- Biography.
Gay activists -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Lou Sullivan : daring to be a man among men /
Brice
D
.
Smith
.
by
Smith
,
Brice
D
.
Transgress Press, 2017.
Call #:
306.768092 S643L
Subjects
Sullivan, Lou, 1951-1991.
Transgender people -- Biography.
Transgender people -- Identity.
Female-to-male transsexuals -- Biography.
Gay activists -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780998252117 (trade pbk.)
Description:
xviii, 246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
“[They] said I couldn’t live as a gay man, but it looks like I’m going to die like one.” Good Midwestern girls did not grow up to be gay men and die from AIDS. Unless they were transgender pioneer Lou Sullivan (1951-1991). In this biography,
Brice
D
.
Smith
reclaims one of the most tragically overlooked people in LGBT history. Sullivan marched for Civil Rights, embraced the 1960s counterculture, came of age in the gay liberation movement, transformed medical treatment of trans people, institutionalized trans history, forged an international female-to-male (FTM) transgender community and died from AIDS at the epicenter of the crisis. He overcame tremendous obstacles to be who he was and dedicated his life to helping others do the same. An activist to the end, Sullivan inspired a generation to rethink gender identity, sexual orientation and what it means to be human." --adapted from back cover.
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