Book
We both laughed in pleasure : the selected diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991
Publication Information
New York : Nightboat Books, [2019]
Physical Description
419 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm
Summary
Narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives. Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan's self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure. --
Contents
- 'My own interpretation of happiness' : an introduction to the journals of Lou Sullivan / Susan Stryker
- Editors' note / Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma
- January 1961 - June 1969
- June 1969 - August 1970
- September 1970 - January 1975
- February 1975 - July 1975
- August 1975 - June 1976
- July 1976 - January 1977
- February 1977 - June 1981
- June 1981 - January 1982
- February 1982 - November 1986
- December 1986 - March 1991.