![]() Feinberg lives with her wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt, near New York City. ![]() Feinberg's other works Trans Liberation, Trans Gender Warriors, and Transgender have also been at the forefront of the movement. It won the Lambda Award and the American Library Association Lesbian and Gay Book Award. Stone Butch Blues, Feinberg's first novel, is an internationally acclaimed classic of trans literature. Leslie Feinberg is an editor, writer, and political organizer. As the community of cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbian and gay men, and "genderqueers" of all kinds stand up together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had long disappeared and for the first time in years discovers hope for her future. There really isnt a pronoun in our language that fits author and activist Leslie Feinberg or the protagonist of hir new novel, Drag King Dreams. Max is shaken from her crisis, however, by the news that her friend Vickie, a transvestite, has been found murdered on her way home late one night. Max is lonely and uncertain about her future-fearful in fact of America's future with its War on Terror and War in Iraq-with only a core group of friends to turn to for reassurance. ![]() ![]() A veteran of the women's and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max's mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Drag King Dreams is the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as men, perform. ![]()
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