I am female-bodied, I am a butch lesbian, a transgender lesbian - referring to me as "she/her" is appropriate, particularly in a non-trans setting in which referring to me as "he" would appear to resolve the social contradiction between my birth sex and gender expression and render my transgender expression invisible. For me, pronouns are always placed within context. Which pronouns do you prefer used in referring to you? Leslie Feinberg: That's a thoughtful way to begin. I've been communicating with Leslie recently to discuss hir* new novel, Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rubinstein, a male-identified transgender person working as a door attendant at Club Chaos, a drag bar in New York City, as he deals with life post-9/11. Goldberg goes through many of the struggles that face people who don't fit the traditional gender roles: frequent loss of employment, difficulties in maintaining relationships, police harassment, and discrimination not only in the community at large but also within the lesbian and gay communities. It was the story of Jess Goldberg's life as ze* tried to establish a gender identity and a role in society both before and after the Stonewall riots. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.In 1993, a novel by Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, opened many people's eyes to gender issues. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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