![]() ![]() Successfully campaigning to remove heterosexuality from the medical requirements for gender affirming surgery, Lou was pivotal in our modern understanding of gender and sexuality as distinct identities. Lou navigated his identity with few role models and was perhaps the first publicly gay transgender man. Through these extracts, we hear Lou’s life in his own words- from ‘playing boys’ in his childhood in Wisconsin, to cruising San Francisco’s gay bars for handsome ‘youngmen’ from first hearing about gender non-conforming communities, to becoming a vital part of them as an activist, author, and archivist. Lou kept candid diaries from the age of 10. The first openly trans author on a Classics list, this is a unique first-hand account of a historical trans man’s life, which read like a euphoric coming-of-age novel.Ī unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man’s whole life, which reads like a celebratory coming-of-age novel. ![]()
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