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Forfatter, trykker og transaktivist Lou Sullivan skrev dagbog hele sit liv. Hans skrift er energisk og umiddelbar, temperamentet rastløst og optimistisk. Han skriver om at søge nydelse og forbindelser. Om sex, samtidens rockmusik, sin familie, sine venner og om glæderne og besværet ved at være en transkønnet bøsse i 1970’erne og 80’ernes USA. Dette udvalg følger Sullivans to puberteter. Vi møder ham som teenager, Beatles-fan og aspirerende beatnik i familiehjemmet i Milwaukee. Og igen som ung voksen på vej gennem de sexologiske klinikkers labyrintiske udredningsprocesser og ind i San Franciscos bøssemiljø. Bogen har efterord af forfatter Luka Holmegaard.Lou Sullivan (1951-1991) var trykker, sekretær, aktivist og forfatter til en langrække af tekster om transkønnedes liv og forhold. I 1987 stiftede han FTM, en gruppe for transmænd. Han skrev dagbog fra han var 10 år gammel til han døde af AIDS-relaterede sygdomme som 39-årig. Luka Holmegaard (f. 1990) er forfatter. Han har blandt andet udgivet essayhybriden Look om tekstil og beklædning, og digtsamlingen Havet i munden.Lou Sullivans dagbøger er den anden bog i forlagets serie af litterære dagbøger fra det 20. århundrede. ARENA DAGBØGER præsenterer forfatterskaber, hvor dagbogen af forskellige grunde står centralt. Side om side med hverdagens optegnelser står lysende sætninger om dødelighed, seksualitet, drømme og modstand.

2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNERFINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan 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.

A unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man's whole life, which reads like a celebratory coming-of-age novel. Lou kept candid diaries from the age of 10. Through these extracts, we hear Lou's life in his own words: from 'playing boys' in his childhood in Wisconsin, to cruising San Francisco's gay bars for handsome 'youngmen'; from first hearing about gender non-conforming communities, to becoming a vital part of them as an activist, author, and archivist. Lou navigated his identity with few role models and was perhaps the first publicly gay transgender man. Successfully campaigning to remove heterosexuality from the medical requirements for gender affirming surgery, Lou was pivotal in our modern understanding of gender and sexuality as distinct identities. After he was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, he remarked that he had been told by clinics that 'it was impossible for me to live as a gay man, but it looks like I'm gonna die like one.' This selection shows Lou's joyous love of life, men, and sex. * LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER * * PUBLISHING TRIANGLE FINALIST * WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN STRYKER 'Chatty and tender, casually poetic and voraciously sexual-Sullivan workshopped his identity and his relationships, committing to the page an interior monologue of self-discovery that paralleled the gay-liberation movement, the burgeoning transgender-rights movement, and the aids crisis... Given how many contemporary trans narratives are rooted in trauma, their choice to foreground trans pleasure and sensuality is celebratory, even radical' The New Yorker