ONE ARCHIVES AT THE USC LIBRARIES: A CELEBRATION OF LOU SULLIVAN WITH BOOK LAUNCH, READINGS, AND PERFORMANCE

Book launch with editors ELLIS MARTIN and ZACH OZMA

Readings by AMOS MAC, ARIEL GOLDBERG, RHYS ERNST,
ZACKARY DRUCKER, FÉLIX SOLANO VARGAS, and JULIAN CARTER

Musical performance by JUAN AND THE PINES

Free screen printing of LOU SULLIVAN MADE ME GAY T-shirts
by LUKAZA BRANFMAN-VERISSIMO (bring your own T-shirt!)

LOUIS GRAYDON SULLIVAN (1951–1991) was a writer and activist for the rights of transgender people. He began exploring gender issues in the 1960s, seeking out like-minded people in his home state of Wisconsin. Throughout his life, Sullivan kept a detailed diary in which he described his conflicted feelings about his own identity “as a girl whose real desire + passion is [to be] with male homosexuals.” Sullivan moved to San Francisco in the 1970s and became involved with GOLDEN GATE GIRLS/GUYS, one of the first social and educational transgender organizations to offer support to female-to-male transsexuals. In the mid-80s, he organized FTM, the first peer support group for trans men. After being diagnosed with HIV, Sullivan focused his remaining energies on publishing both his own diaries and a biography of the nineteenth-century San Francisco LGBT pioneer JACK BEE GARLAND (who was born female but lived as a man). He completed the biography, but his diaries, entitled We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, are only now appearing in print.

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THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC