![]() ![]() “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,” Sullivan wrote. Sullivan kept his diary in the hopes that one day he would publish it, a record of “a phenomenon such as myself”. Sullivan was a gay trans man at a time when being trans was still classed as a mental disorder, and being a gay trans man wasn’t something that the medical profession deemed to exist – trans men could only be heterosexual, according to doctors at the time. They are being published for the first time, on September 24, in a collection called ‘ We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan. ![]() His diaries are a “radical testament to trans happiness“, according to the New Yorker, and track his growth from a rebellious Catholic schoolgirl in suburban Wisconsin to noted trans writer and activist based in San Francisco. ![]() He died as a result of AIDS-related complications in 1991. Sullivan, who was born in Milwaukee in 1951, started keeping a diary at the age of 10 and continued for the next three decades until his death. The diaries of Lou Sullivan, the first known gay trans man diagnosed with AIDS, are being published 18 years after his death. ![]()
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