From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as men, perform. A veteran of the women's and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max's mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Max is lonely and uncertain about her future — fearful, in fact, of America's future with its War on Terror and War in Iraq — with only a core group of friends to turn to for reassurance. Max is shaken from her crisis, however, by the news that her friend Vickie, a transvestite, has been found murdered on her way home late one night. As the community of cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbian and gay men, and "genderqueers" of all kinds stand up together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had long disappeared and for the first time in years discovers hope for her future.

Drag King Dreams

Literature & Fiction

Feinberg, Leslie

Contemporary

Seal Press

A copiously illustrated survey of historical and contemporary figures who have resisted the gender conventions of their day, from the Welsh peasants who cross-dressed to protest taxes to today's transsexual parents.

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul

History

Americas

Beacon Pr

Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Beacon Press

Presents a collection of speeches and essays about gender expression and the struggles of the gay, lesbian, bi, and transsexual community

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and stirring book is for anyone who cares about civil rights and creating a just and equitable society.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come

World View Forum Pub

Featuring an insightful look at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) life in Cuba, this chronicle illuminates the progress the country has made from centuries of backward attitudes and oppression to the current state of enlightenment. From the mores of the Colonial period to the roles that Hollywood, the CIA, and Wall Street played in depicting Cuba as a police state” for gays and in reinforcing the oppression, this overview provides a backdrop of the past and illustrates the persecution and exploitation originally planted by Spanish colonialism and further cultivated by U.S. capitalism. Details on the gradual transformation follow as the narrative examines the impact of the political and institutional initiatives taken by Fidel Castro and the Cuban leadership to overcome bigotry and prejudice against LGBT peopleamong them free health care and education, guaranteed jobs and housing, special health care for AIDS victims, and widespread sex education.

Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba

World View Forum

These 50 cupcakes have a kick! The product of Prohibition Bakery, a downtown hole in the wall, they're simply the best, the booziest treats in Manhattan. Each diminutive cake is a perfect, delicious balance of texture, flavor, and fragrance. That's why an astonishing variety of fans, from Food &amp; Wine to Playboy, Newsweek, and Thrillist.com, have come together to heap praise upon bakers Leslie Feinberg and Brooke Siem for their creations. Make a “Dark &amp; Stormy” (Gosling Rum, ginger beer, and lime), an “Old Fashioned” (whiskey, bitters, orange, and a whiskey-soaked cherry), or other cupcake and you’ll become a convert from the very first bite.

Prohibition Bakery: A Baking Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Siem, Brooke

Baking

Union Square & Co.

Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence.
Woman or man? That’s the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950’s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist ’60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early ’70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence.
Leslie Feinberg is also the author of Trans Liberation, Trans Gender Warriors and Transgender Liberation, and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues.

Stone Butch Blues: A Novel

United States

Alyson Books

Jess, a working-class woman living as a man, survives a period of homelessness, tries to unionize fellow workers, worries about being found out, and searches for community while undergoing a secret transsexual operation

Stone Butch Blues

Firbrand Books

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Drag King Dreams

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul

Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come

Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba

Prohibition Bakery: A Baking Cookbook

Stone Butch Blues: A Novel

Stone Butch Blues