Drag King Dreams Paperback - 2006

Name: Drag King Dreams
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Author: Feinberg, Leslie
ISBN: 9780786717637

by Leslie Feinberg

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Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club, is shaken when her friend, a transvestite, is murdered. As the community of cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbians, and gay men stand together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had disappeared.

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Drag King Dreams is 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. 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. 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. 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.

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"Who cares what anybody's got between their legs?"

Details

Title Drag King Dreams
Author Leslie Feinberg
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 314
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Seal Press (CA), New York
Publication date 2006-03-01
ISBN 9780786717637 / 0786717637
Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Lgbt
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects Identity (Psychology), Psychological fiction
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006297545
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

Lambda Book Report, 06/01/2006, Page 17
Library Journal, 03/15/2006, Page 62
Publishers Weekly, 03/27/2006, Page 54

About the author

Leslie Feinberg is an editor, writer, and political organizer. Stone Butch Blues, Feinberg's first novel, is an internationally acclaimed classic of trans literature. It won the Lambda Award and the American Library Association Lesbian and Gay Book Award. Feinberg's other works Trans Liberation, Trans Gender Warriors, and Transgender have also been at the forefront of the trans movement. Feinberg lives with her wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt, near New York City.