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.
Full title: "Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America" by Esther Newton."For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens - homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the lives of drag queens, interviewing informants whose trust she had earned and compiling a lively, first-hand ethnographic account of the culture of female impersonators.Mother Camp explores the distinctions that drag queens make among themselves as performers, the various ki
1972,
English,
Esther Newton,
Original title: "I travestiti" (The transvestites) by Lisetta Carmi, (Rome, Essedi, 1972).This is a photographic book with about 150 black and white shots on a phenomenon that – at the beginning of the 70s – did not fail to cause a sensation, gender identity. The volume was originally equipped with a paper dust jacket (now very rare) to hide from view a cover that for the time was considered particularly scandalous.The photos were shot in Genoa from 1965 to the early 1970s. It is an intimate and deeply sensitive meditation on sexual identity. Lisetta Carmi was the first professional artist to
1972,
Italian,
Lisetta Carmi,
Full title: "Behold I am a Woman Now" by Dianna Boileau."Behold, I Am a Woman Now" by Dianna Boileau moved me deeply, evoking tears as I read. I had thought that my own transition posed immense challenges, but Boileau’s experience, set against the backdrop of the 1960s and 70s, was far more harrowing.
In the preface, we are introduced to a compelling narrative: "Now Dianna tells her story. The story of a boy growing up to discover he was a girl in every way but in physical form. The story of a boy forced by society to live a secret life of shame and degradation in the night world of the sexu
1972,
Canada,
Dianna Boileau,
English,
