S/HeThis brave memoir chronicles Pratt’s struggle to overcome the repressive traditions of Southern womanhood and live her life honestly. It chronicles her youth, her marriage, her eventual decision to come out as a lesbian, and her life with transgendered activist and author Leslie Feinberg. Minnie Bruce Prattis the author ofWe Say We Love Each Other,Rebellion,Crime Against Nature,Walking Back Up Depot Street, andThe Dirt We Ate. |
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... lesbian - a perverted woman ? To answer their questions and my own , I did what perhaps every person who identifies as lesbian or gay does when we come out to ourselves . I looked back at my own life for the clues of memory to use as I ...
... lesbian - a perverted woman ? To answer their questions and my own , I did what perhaps every person who identifies as lesbian or gay does when we come out to ourselves . I looked back at my own life for the clues of memory to use as I ...
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... lesbian newspapers still run personal ads that say " No butches , no drugs " —a statement equating gender defiance in a woman with self - destruction , a lesbian version of a gay man's " straight - appearing , no femmes " ad ...
... lesbian newspapers still run personal ads that say " No butches , no drugs " —a statement equating gender defiance in a woman with self - destruction , a lesbian version of a gay man's " straight - appearing , no femmes " ad ...
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... lesbian — a sexuality thought too aggressive and “ mascu- line " to fit with my " femininity . " I am definitively lesbian to myself , but not in a way recogniz- able to a heterosexual world that assumes lesbians to be " mannish ...
... lesbian — a sexuality thought too aggressive and “ mascu- line " to fit with my " femininity . " I am definitively lesbian to myself , but not in a way recogniz- able to a heterosexual world that assumes lesbians to be " mannish ...
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