We Both Laughed In Pleasure

By Susan Stryker, Lou Sullivan, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma

Subjects: LGBTQ gender identity, Transgender men, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, LGBTQ diaries, Diaries, LGBTQ biography and memoir, collection:triangle-award-gender=finalist

Description: Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition. *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.