We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting
social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th
century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his
AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian
and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans
narratives. Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan’s
self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous
figure.
