“I know how to be one of the boys, I never knew how to be a chick + I’m glad! Yet I think I can still be one of the guys + keep my identity as a girl, I hope, to make a pleasant combination,” he continued. “I wanna look like what I am but don’t know what someone like me looks like,” he wrote as a teenager. “A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won’t exist to prove them wrong,” he writes.įrom a young age, he was confident in his assertion that he was different, but it wasn’t always clear to him what exactly that was. As an adolescent, he made a vow to himself that he would someday publish his diaries, as a record of a “ phenomenon such as myself. Aged 10, he began to write the diary which he would keep throughout the remainder of his life. They chronicle a life of activism, joy, sorrow and the struggle for both his sexuality and gender to be recognised simultaneously. The extraordinary diaries, which The New Yorker has dubbed “ a radical testament to trans happiness ,” were published at the end of September, in a volume called We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan. “ said I couldn’t live as a gay man, but it looks like I’m going to die like one.” Thus wrote Lou Sullivan, an openly gay, transgender and HIV Positive man, in his diaries in mid-1980’s San Fransisco.
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