Works by
Leslie Feinberg
(Writer)

Fiction

• Stone Butch Blues: A Novel (1993) -- Winner, 1993 Lambda Literary Award for Small Presses
  This brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence.
  
  Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950's, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence.
  
  Leslie Feinberg is also the author of Trans Liberation, Trans Gender Warriors and Transgender Liberation, and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues.

• Drag King Dreams (2006) -- Finalist 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Awards
  From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as men, perform.
  
  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. 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. 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. 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.

Non-fiction

• Journal of a Transsexual (1980)

• Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (1980)
  "Leslie Feinberg has been a leader in the transgender rights movement as long as such a movement has existed. This book is both deeply personal and widely researched. Feinberg examines perceptions of the body, the status of clothing, and the structures of societies that welcome or are threatened by gender variance. The portrait gallery that closes the book contains photographs and capsule biographies of contemporary transgendered people."Amazon.com -- Amazon.com

• Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come (1992)

• Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (1998)
  Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and stirring book is for anyone who cares about civil rights and creating a just and equitable society.

• lavender & red (In progress)
  "I've been writing this book in weekly installments in
  Workers World newspaper since June 2004.
  Read it online, as it unfolds at http://www.workers.org/lavender-red/"
                    -- Leslie Feinberg