Drag King Dreams -- Leslie Feinberg, Paperback

From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, 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 trans woman, 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.

Author: Leslie Feinberg
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: 03/22/2006
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780786717637
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2006 pg. 62
Publishers Weekly 03/27/2006 pg. 54
Lambda Book Report 06/01/2006 pg. 17

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 movement. Feinberg lives with her wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt, near New York City.