Description 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.
He lives and works in Philadelphia and is the author of BLACK DOG DRINKING FROM AN OUTDOOR POOL (forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)..
In 2015, Ozma received a BFA in Community Arts from California College of the Arts in Oakland.
Zach Ozma is a poet, potter, and social practice artist.
His short films have screened at San Francisco Transgender Film Festival and Trans Stellar Film Festival.
He holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from Mills College.
Ellis Martin works with digital derivatives in the interstice of art and archive.
Sullivan left 8.4 cubic feet of archival material from his life and studies to the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, of which he was a founding member.
The first publicly gay trans man to medically transition, Lou meticulously journaled his experiences (romantic, lascivious, challenging, quotidian, poetic, political).
Sullivan began writing his life in Diaries as an adolescent and continued until his death from AIDS complications.
San Francisco, 1991) was a writer, activist, typesetter, trans historian and ground breaking queer activist.
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About the Author Louis G.
Annotation 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.
Entries from twenty-four Diaries reveal Sullivan\'s self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure.
Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the Diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives.
Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39.
Description 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
