A random collection of over 1910 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
2001,
François Jonquet,
French,
Jenny Bel'Air,
Original title: "Jenny Bel'Air: Une créature" (Jenny Bel'Air: A Creature) by François Jonquet.
"The book tells the irresistible rise of Jenny Bel'Air, an uncertain creature, sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, and who, at some point, becomes the absolute star of the trendy Paris of the 80s. How did he or she get here? And how did the glitter of glory fade away? François Jonquet gives us this answer. At a time when answers are rare, this book is a tremendously human testimony on a creature both glamorous and "on the margins" where the great figures of the Parisian Underground are resurrected."
Jenny Bel'Air, born Alain Sepho, a famous physiognomist of the Palace, transgender icon of the captivating Parisian nights of the 70s and 80s. With grace and lucidity, François Jonquet testifies to the rise of this character in the underground scene. He goes in search of the mysterious power of the one who reigned over these Roaring Twenties. In this breathless tale, the great figures of the time are brought back to life. Here is the destiny of a creature, an intense testimony of a way of claiming its difference with audacity.
Jenny Bel'Air is a famous transgender artist, cabaret dancer, and an icon of the Parisian nightlife of the 80s in France, born Alain Sapho in 1957. She was seen in the company of personalities as diverse as singers (Gainsbourg, Mick Jagger, Tom Waits, Grace Jones, Tina Turner or Prince), fashion designers (Yves Saint-Laurent, Loulou de la Falaise, Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler, Kenzo), but also artists, intellectuals and politicians of all hues Maurice Béjart, Roland Barthes, Andy Warhol, King Albert II of Sweden, journalist Alain Pacadis or even the mistresses of dictator Juan Peron and Marshal Pétain.
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