
Title: We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan 1961-1991
Author: Lou Sullivan, edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma
Publisher: Nightboat
Published: 2019
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
This book was a donation from the publisher.
We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay trans man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age eleven until his AIDS-related death at thirty-nine. 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.
(Text from Nightboat.)