While speaking, during the Q & A and afterwards in private conversations with people, I mentioned a ton of different resources and I thought I’d just throw it all up here for people to sift through.
If I told you I’d put something up that you can’t find or don’t see, let me know.
- Clubs, Orgs, Groups, Meetings:
The Sunshine Club (Hadley, MA TG group)
Hetrick-Martin (NYC GLBT High School)
P-FLAG (Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)
Rhea’s Cafe (the group that brought me to Albany!)
First Event (Boston’s yearly trans event)
- Books/Writers:
Abigail Garner (het daughter of a gay father, author of Families Like Mine)
Arlene Istar Lev (GLBT Parenting issues)
Jamison Green‘s Becoming a Visible Man (the book about FTMs I recommended)
Anne Fausto-Serling’s Sexing the Body (the scientific process & sexual differentiation)
Judith Halberstam’s Female Masculinity (a good book that made me angry)
(more about most of the above in in Recommended Reading)
- Politics/Legislation:
NCTE (National Center for Transgender Equality)
Empire Pride (New York State GLBT)
- People:
Sylvia Rivera (drag queen involved in Stonewall)
Brandon Teena (the transman murdered in the early 90s)
Gwen Araujo (the young transwoman murdered last year)
- Other:
That column TristanTaormino wrote about “his vagina” and “her penis”
reference to “queer heterosexuality” in MHB is on p. 175
Ariadne Kane’s book (the one I’ve got an essay in)
news about my next book
Rufus Wainwright (the guy who wrote that “Gay Messiah” song Betty mentioned)
Adam Ant (the role model/hero I mentioned)