A reading and study session celebrating the life and legacy of activist and trans historian Lou Sullivan, on the 29th anniversary of his death, with free screening of Lou Sullivan t-shirts.
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 trans narratives.
Book launch with editors Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma.
Readings by Amos Mac, Ariel Goldberg, Rhys Ernst, Zackary Drucker, Felix Solano Vargas, and Julian Carter.
Free screen printing of "Lou Sullivan Made Me Gay" t-shirts by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo (bring your own t-shirt).
*Doors at 6:00 and readings at 6:30.
Image: (top) Lou Sullivan Papers at the GLBT Historical Society.