We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Author: Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (Eds.)
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Language: English
Pages: 440
Size: 15 x 20 cm
Weight:
580 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9781643620176
Price:
€21.00
Product Description
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD
Preface by Susan Stryker
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.