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.
Original title: "Quelque chose en moins... ou en plus" (Something less... or more) by Galia Salimo.
Ten days already. Ten days without sunshine, but without a shadow of regret. Ten days since I left Marseilles for Paris where I knew I had an appointment with my destiny. Ten days that I said goodbye to my childhood, and that I definitively left this disguise of a boy, with which I had been decked out. Ten days since I gave up the idea of walking in someone else's shoes.
Born a boy in Marseille, Galia Salimo recounts the exhilarating and earthy beginnings of her life as queen of Parisian nights. From the festive capital of the 1970s to stages around the world – Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Hiroshima... – she tells it all: the red-light districts of Antwerp, the palaces of Jakarta, the competition between transformist artists, her friendships and her loves, the shows and their backstage at Madame Arthur, at the Carrousel and at the Alcazar... We have fun, we smile, we are also moved when she talks about the difficult search for her true identity. Laughing on the verge of tears, humor slung across the shoulder, defying the taboos and diktats of post-68 society, in ten years, the caterpillar has transformed into a butterfly convinced... that nothing is impossible.
2022,
French,
Galia Salimo,
Original title: "Quand j'étais petit garçon" (When I was a little boy) by Galia.
Queen of Parisian nights (Carrousel, Palace, Alcazar, Queen), Galia tells for the first time her childhood... of a little boy like no other. This is the drama of Domino, a little boy with fine features born in Marseille in the fifties, and whose immoderate penchant for his mother's falbalas has a bad effect in the heart of Le Panier, a district where half-tones do not exist, where men must be taciturn and virile, and women more than sensual.
But he chose his clan. He does not like violent games, the warrior spirit of his comrades, preferring the company, the outfits, and the delicacy of the girls. The feminine universe fascinates him; He is convinced that it is his. But how to live it, admit it, say it? Can the ugly duckling become another creature? One of those black swans that his schoolmistress reveals to him one day?
2017,
Alcazar,
Carrousel,
Coccinelle,
French,
Galia Salimo,
