Trinity Epsicopal Church
371 Delaware Ave. (near W. Tupper St.)
Buffalo, NY
$7 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 Hallwalls members
Hallwalls' "Ways In Between Gender"
film and performance series presents
Leslie Feinberg
Leslie will read from her latest book "Drag King Dreams," a novel set in contemporary Manhattan that follows the political reawakening of protagonist Max Rabinowitz, a bouncer in an East Village drag club.
"The dreary dialectic of struggle - race, gender, class, nationalism - is here transformed through the lively dialogue of real people struggling in a post-9/11 New York City into a great galloping story. If the workers of the world read Leslie Feinberg's book, they just might unite!"
Kate Clinton
Leslie Feinberg - a long-time, internationally-known activist and award-winning author - came of age as a young butch lesbian in the factories and gay bars of Buffalo, NY in the 1960s. Hir works include "Stone Butch Blues," "Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman" and "Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue."
Feinberg's long-running weekly series Lavender & Red can be read online at
www.workers.org. Author-signed copies Feinberg's of newest novel, Drag King Dreams, are available at Buffalo's independently owned bookstore, TALKING LEAVES BOOKS. (Copies of the novel will be available for purchase at the reading on June 2.)
Feinberg is a political journalist, a managing editor of Workers World newspaper, and a national steering committee member of the LGBT Caucus of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. Ze is a founder of Rainbow Flags for Mumia and a national organizer for the International Action Center.
Co-sponsored by Gender Institute-IREWG, University at Buffalo; Pride Buffalo; Spectrum Transgender Group; the Rainbow Elders; and by many generous individual donations.