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x Alec Butler   Other    
Alec Butler (born 1959 in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker. Born intersex and raised as a female, he was known as Audrey and identified as a butch dyke before pursuing gender reassignment in 1999, and currently...
x Antonia San Juan        
Antonia San Juan (Born March 22, 1961 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) is a Spanish actress, director and screenwriter. At 19 she went to Madrid, where she started working as a professional theatre actress and also as a cabaret act in pubs and...
x Arn Saba Arn Saba (Katherine Collins). Male    
Katherine Shannon Collins (born Arnold Alexander Saba, Jr. 1947, Vancouver, British Columbia), formerly Arn Saba, is a Canadian cartoonist, writer, media personality, stage performer and composer. In 1965, Collins began the University of British...
x Carole LaFavor   Other   Evil dead center
Carole S. LaFavor (b. Minnesota) is an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse. She was a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995-1997 and a foundng member of Positively Native, an organisation that supports Native American...
Along the Journey River
x Charlie Anders   Female   Choir boy
Charlie Anders is the author of the novel Choir Boy (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of the anthology She's Such A Geek (Seal Press, 2006) and the science fiction blog io9. She is the publisher of other magazine, the ...
x Chiya Fujino   Female    
Chiya Fujino (藤野 千夜, Fujino Chiya, born February 27, 1962) is a Japanese writer of literary fiction. She has published several novels and short stories, and has been awarded three major Japanese literary prizes. Fujino is a male-to-female...
x Chrystos Chrystos Other    
Chrystos (born 10 December, 1946) is a Menominee poet and rights activist. Prior to being published, she worked as a home caretaker, and an activist for Turtle Mountain Band of Chipewa, Norma Jean Croy, and Leonard Peltier. Born in San Francisco,...
x Claude Cahun Chînm'tchiéthe Saint Brélade Jèrri Schwob Malherbe Claude Cahun Female    
Claude Cahun (25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. Born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob in Nantes, she was...
x Colin Kennedy Donovan Colin Kennedy Donovan Other    
Colin Kennedy Donovan is a disabled queer, transgender, and genderqueer identified anti-racist educator, activist, performer, and writer. Donovan is the creator of the radical Queer disability zine, Fuck Pity. In 2000, Donovan cofounded RESYST...
x Dawn Langley Simmons   Other Intersexuality Dawn, a Charleston legend
Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (15 October 1937 – 18 September 2000) was a prolific English author and biographer. Born "Gordon Langley Hall", Simmons lived her first decades as a male. As a young adult, she was adopted by Margaret Rutherford, who was...
The Two Worlds of Pearl S. Buck
William, Father of The Netherlands
All for love
sawdust trail
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x Deirdre N. McCloskey Deirdre McCloskey Female Female The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
Deirdre N. McCloskey(September 11, 1942 - living) U.S.A. Professor, historian, and feminist economist Born Donald N. McCloskey at Ann Arbor, Michigan, he was educated at Harvard (she was the son of a professor there) but has spent her academic...
Male
x Diana Hignutt Diana Hignutt Female   Moonsword
Diana Hignutt is a transsexual American novelist of fantasy fiction. As a result of the publication of her first novel, Moonsword, Ms. Hignutt has been interviewed on radio programs across the United States and on such national television shows as...
Empress of Clouds
x Donna Sachet donna-sachet-2.jpg Other    
Donna Sachet is an American drag actor, singer, community activist, spokemodel, and writer based in San Francisco. She has been awarded many community honors including as Grand Marshall in the San Francisco Pride parade and being named first lady of...
x Estelle Asmodelle Estelle Asmodelle Female    
Estelle Asmodelle (born 22 April 1964, Bowral, New South Wales, Australia), formerly known as Estelle Maria Croot, is an Australian model, belly dancer, writer, musician and actress. She is known as Australia's first legal transsexual with the...
x Ina Fried Ina Fried Other Male  
Ina Fried is an American journalist and senior staff writer for CNET Network's News.com. Fried is frequent commenter on technology news on National Public Radio, local television news and for other print and broadcast outlets. Fried is a personal...
Female
x Jamison Green   Other    
Jamison "James" Green (born in 1948 in Oakland, California) is a leader in the transgender rights movement. Green is known as an activist for the legal protection, medical access, safety, civil rights and dignity of transgender and transsexual...
x Jan Morris   Female   Last Letters from Hav
Jan Morris CBE (born on 2 October, 1926 in Clevedon, Somerset, England) is a British historian, author and travel writer. Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, but is Welsh by heritage and adoption. Before...
A Venice Bestiary
L'énigme
Wales from the Air
Lincoln
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x Jennifer Diane Reitz   Female   Unicorn Jelly
Jennifer Diane Reitz (born 1959 in Baker, Oregon) is an American writer, webcomic author, and computer programmer, known for creating webcomics such as Unicorn Jelly, Pastel Defender Heliotrope and To Save Her, and computer games such as Boppin'....
x Jennifer Finney Boylan FinneyBoylan Female   I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
Jennifer Finney Boylan (born James Richard Boylan, Jr, June 22, 1958 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) is an American author and professor at Colby College. She has openly discussed being a trans woman. Boylan's memoir, She's Not There, was published...
Getting in
She's Not There
planets
x Kate Bornstein Kate Bornstein Other   My gender workbook
Kate Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, transsexual woman and gender theorist. Born Albert Bornstein in Neptune, New Jersey, Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhill at Brown...
Gender outlaw
Hello Cruel World
x L.E. Leone   Female   Engineering Your Future
L. E. Leone (formerly known as Dan Leone) is a writer, author of the Cheap Eats column for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and member of the band Ed's Redeeming Qualities. Her food writing is notable for often talking much more about subjects such...
x Lady Colin Campbell   Other Intersexuality  
Lady Colin Campbell, (born George William Ziadie, known as Georgie, 17 August 1949), is a British writer, biographer, autobiographer, novelist and radio interviewer, known for her biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Real Diana. Campbell was...
x Leslie Feinberg Leslie Feinberg Other   Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg (born September 1, 1949) is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg is a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper. Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender &...
Trans liberation
Drag King Dreams
Transgender warriors
x Loren Cameron   Other   Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
Loren Rex Cameron (born 1959) is an American photographer, author and transsexual activist. His work includes portraiture and self-portraiture which consist of lesbian and transsexual bodies in both clothed and nude form. Cameron's photography...
x Lynn Breedlove   Female   Godspeed
Lynn Breedlove (also known as Lynnee Breedlove) (born in Oakland, California) is an American lesbian musician, writer, and performer. Breedlove was a founding member and lead singer of the San Francisco dyke screamcore band Tribe 8. The band's first...
x M. C. Brennan   Female    
Maire Caitlin Brennan is an American screenwriter, film director and performer born in Phoenix, Arizona on February 14, 1969. Brennan achieved minor regional success in film, television, music and radio as Mike Sortino before beginning a gender...
x Maddie Blaustein Maddie Blaustein Female    
Madeleine Joan Blaustein (commonly credited as Maddie Blaustein, formerly credited as Addie Blaustein) (born Adam Blaustein October 9, 1960 - December 11, 2008) was an American male-to-female transgender voice actress. Blaustein was born in Long...
x Martine Rothblatt   Female    
Martine Aliana Rothblatt Ph.D, MBA, J.D. (born 1954 as Martin Rothblatt) is an American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur. Rothblatt graduated from UCLA with a combined law and MBA degree in 1981, then began work in Washington, D.C., first in the...
x Max Wolf Valerio   Male    
Max Wolf Valerio (born February 16, 1957) is an American poet, memoir writer, essayist and actor. He lives in San Francisco, California. He is ethnically Blackfoot Indian, Sephardic Jewish, and Northern European. His memoirs and essays often focus...
x Meryn Cadell Meryn Cadell Other    
Meryn Cadell is a Canadian writer and performance artist. He currently teaches the writing of song lyrics and libretto in the Creative Writing Program at University of British Columbia. Cadell, a female-to-male transsexual, achieved prominence as a...
x Miss Shangay Lily Missshangaylilypplano Male    
Miss Shangay Lily (born March 1, 1963) is best known for being one of Spain's most popular drag queens. He is also a writer, actor and director. A radical feminist intellectual, Miss Shangay Lily became a pioneer Queer activist and social agitator...
x Molly Cutpurse Molly Cutpurse Female   Carry On Corsets
Molly Cutpurse is an English transgender author. She was born in Stratford in the East End of London in September 1952 and raised in nearby Leyton. A polymath, shy, and synaesthete, after working at many jobs, she decided that writing was the only...
A Life Lived
The Last Winter
x Nina Arsenault   Female    
Nina Arsenault (born January 20, 1974) is a Canadian transsexual columnist, freelance writer, actress and sex-trade worker. She was born Rodney and grew up in a trailer park in Beamsville, Ontario. She has stated she has two master's degrees. At one...
x Patrick Califia Patrick Califia Male Female Macho Sluts
Patrick Califia (also 'Califia-Rice', formerly known as Pat Califia), born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas is a writer of nonfiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual transman. Califia was born female,...
Transman Doc and Fluff
Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex
Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex
Hard men
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x Peaches Christ PeachesHead Female    
Peaches Christ (stage name for Joshua Grannell) is an American underground drag performer, emcee, filmmaker, and actor. Peaches currently resides in San Francisco where her Backlash Production Company and Midnight Mass movie series are based. Her...
x Poppy Z. Brite Photo of Poppy Z. Brite Female Non-operative transsexual Drawing Blood
Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American author. Brite initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s after publishing a string of successful novels....
Male Lost Souls
Exquisite Corpse
Soul Kitchen
Liquor
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x Rachel Pollack Bio rachel Female   Unquenchable Fire
Rachel Pollack (b. 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on divinatory tarot. Pollack has been a great influence on the women's spirituality movement. Pollack's work 78 Degrees of Wisdom on...
Temporary Agency
Godmother Night
The Haindl tarot, the minor arcana
The complete illustrated guide to tarot
more
x Raphael Carter The Fortunate Fall Male   The Fortunate Fall
Raphael Carter is an American science fiction author whose work, while sparse, has met with considerable acclaim. Carter's debut postcyberpunk novel The Fortunate Fall (1996) was well received (a. o. Locus recommended reading list; in the Locus...
x Riki Wilchins   Female    
Riki Wilchins (born 1952) is an activist whose work has focused on issues of gender as it impacts many Americans: straight and gay; male, female and transgender; white and of-color; youth and elder. Her work on combating discrimination and violence...
x Roz Kaveney   Female   Teen Dreams
Roz Kaveney (born 9 July 1949) is a British writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and editor. She was born male but changed to and thereafter has lived as a female. She was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. On her website Roz says: "I was...
From Alien to The matrix
Reading the Vampire Slayer
Reading the Vampire Slayer
The Weerde
more
x S. Bear Bergman Cover for the 2006 book Butch Is A Noun Other    
S. Bear Bergman (born 22 September 1974) is a transgender author, poet, playwright, and theater artist. Bergman was educated at Concord Academy, was one of the founders of the first Gay-Straight Alliance and a member of the Governor of Massachusetts...
x Sandra Mara Herzer A-queda-para-o-alto Female    
Anderson Bigode Herzer (born Sandra Mara Herzer 10 June 1962 in Rolândia, Paraná, Brazil - 10 August 1982, in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil), was a writer and poet. He committed suicide at the age 20. The film Vera by Sérgio Toledo is based on...
x Scott Turner Schofield   Male    
Scott Turner Schofield, formerly KT Kilborn, is a FTM performer with a transgender identity. Based in Atlanta, GA, he has toured nationwide with his one-trannie shows, "Underground TRANSit" and "Debutante Balls" since 2001. Schofield (then Kilborn)...
x Veronique Renard Pantau Female    
Véronique Françoise Caroline Renard (born 26 May 1965 in Jutphaas, the Netherlands) is a Dutch author. She is also known as Pantau, a name that was adopted after meeting the Dalai Lama at an audience at his home in McLeodganj, Dharamsala, India in...
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