This was a time before the internet and so people would send each other mail art. Vaginal was someone who made a lot of queer zines and people would share these. When I stumbled upon Vaginal, I had never known about queercore, which in the beginning was mostly a West Coast queer punk movement that combined really hard, confrontational aesthetics with a very visibly queer narrative and punk art-making techniques like zines. The first time I discovered Vaginal was when I was 15 years old, in the back of Index Magazine, which was an arts and culture magazine in the late ’90s and the 2000s. Retrieved July 12, 2021.This is actually the first film work by queer punk icon Black nonbinary goddess Vaginal Davis. "Lambda Literary announces 25 winning books for annual Lammy Awards". " "Something Happens Under the Bridge": Three Recent Books by Gay Trans Men". "Lou Sullivan's Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness". "Meet Lou Sullivan, the Pioneer Who Taught the World That Trans Men Can Be Gay".
"Lou Sullivan's Diaries Show the Transformative Power of Queer History". We Both Laughed in Pleasure won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction in 2020. These reminiscences are written in a style somewhere between childlike giddiness and deft description, where you can sense that Sullivan is turning himself on with every entry he writes."
Sullivan’s diaries record in great detail his sexual exploits, romantic infatuations, and complex personal relationships. Slate's Crispin Long said the book was "ripe with mirth, confusion, lust, despair, hope, and charm." The Nation's Sasha Geffen said it "dispenses with the ubiquitous narrative of transition as a dreary but necessary inconvenience." Jeremy Lybarger, writing for The New Yorker, called it "a radical testament to trans happiness," saying it was "chatty and tender, casually poetic and voraciously sexual." Chicago Review's Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué expanded on others' reviews, writing that We Both Laughed in Pleasure is "a deeply erotic book. We Both Laughed in Pleasure was generally well received. The book discusses Sullivan's childhood, his transition, his push for heterosexuality to be removed as a criterion for medical transition and final days living with HIV. It includes a foreword by trans studies professor Susan Stryker. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991 is a book of writing from the diaries of transgender rights activist Lou Sullivan, edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma.
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