12 best-selling gender books like We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan by Lou Sullivan

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Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• transgender
• gay
• lgbt
• queer lit
• queer

"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• queer lit
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• gender
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Similar categories in Susan Stryker's Transgender History book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• queer

"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• history
• biography
• memoir
• gay
• lgbt
• transgender
• gender
• queer lit
• nonfiction
• queer

"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• queer lit
• queer

"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• queer lit
• queer

"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Similar categories in Daniel Mallory Ortberg's Something That May Shock and Discredit You book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past."

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"But there was a curse on Laius. The curse was Daddy Issues. Only a daddy can have Daddy Issues. The Daddy Issues of Laius include: insisting on taking your children hiking even after they start cryin…"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no…"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"I mean, if I were thirty years younger—if I were twenty five years younger—if I were eighteen years younger—God, if I were just ten years younger—if I were a year and a day younger—if I were a month …"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

Similar categories in Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• gender
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• queer lit
• nonfiction
• queer

"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• queer lit
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• history
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• queer

"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Similar categories in T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• memoir
• transgender
• gay
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• transgender
• gay
• lgbt
• queer lit
• queer

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• gay
• lgbt
• gender
• queer lit
• nonfiction
• queer