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The Coming of Age

by Lucy Sante,

From I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, which was published this month by Penguin Press. For months I was preoccupied with the matter of my name.…

Smile

by Jeremiah Moss,

From Feral City, which was published last month by W. W. Norton. As a child I was told I didn’t smile enough. Adults pinched my cheeks, trying to force it.…

Stonewall at Fifty

by Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, Michelle Tea, T Kira Madden,

Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city’s most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall…

Within Reach

by Nicole Pasulka,

The transgender community fights for health care

A Kind of Grace

by Hannah Black,

By Hannah Black. Black is an artist and writer from the U.K. She is the author of Dark Pool Party, which was published last month by Dominica/Arcadia Missa.

Lakshmi’s Story

by Vaishali Raode,Translated by P. G. Joshi, R. Raj Rao,

By Vaishali Raode, from Mi Hijra, Mi Lakshmi (“I Am a Hijra, I Am Lakshmi”), an account of the life of Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi, a transgender-rights activist in the Indian…

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