Lou Sullivan was a pioneering activist and author credited with modern acknowledgment that sexual orientation and gender identity are distinct concepts. He was a vital figure in the grassroots trans male movement, facilitating peer support, counseling, and medical services outside of traditional gender dysphoria clinics. Sullivan founded FTM International, one of the first organizations specifically for trans men, and was instrumental in the community's growth during the late 1980s. His work aimed to shift attitudes toward trans homosexuals and reform medical transition processes, advocating for orientation-blind access to hormones and surgery.
Drawn from Sullivan's meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives.