Passage
Red Jordan Arobateau
The Journal of Red Jordan Arobateau, PASSAGE, continues where AUTUMN CHANGES ended. It too is A Transsexual Account. As AUTUMN CHANGES was more about the hard core time of transition, PASSAGE picks up in 2005, 7 years after he’s begun. It also flashes back into the past. This Journal is both interesting, & funny. It provides a equal argument for both sides of the Gender Variant, Vs,. True Transsexual debate, which is currently raging today; the bathroom wars, & gender roles with a lot of humor and state of the art political overview: ‘An aside note; (as most of female-born news is never important); over the 3 day queer weekend; Friday being Tranny March; Saturday Dike March; Sunday, the world famous Gay Pride Day with the largest parade in the world, some 2 million; 4 Trans Masculine men died. Gender Variant by drug overdose/suicide? Transman, violently murdered. Butch dike; vehicular manslaughter. F2M transman; suicide by hanging.’ It is both philosophical and anecdotal: ‘Amid time, mixing the sediment of experiences, grew wisdom; and he began to find others like him, so alone, not the glamorous; but black women in low rent hotel rooms afraid to go out after dark to assemble; without sex, without the arms of a love, maybe just a few lesbian books and records to keep them company. These people who occasionally reach up from a drowning sea and holler ‘HELP’ via a support group, letter to the editor of some queer newspaper or radio program talk line. This stirs up my energy once again to recount these desperate events of my lower class life and how I’d survived, in vain hope it might somehow help others.’ The author departs from practically all of his other 45 plus books available to the public by including eight black & white photographs of his fine arts oil paintings. Like AUTUMN CHANGES, this Journal also has also many quotes throughout, fully accredited. It also includes footnotes of explanation of historic gay information not common knowledge today. Add to this interesting scholarly reading, which is also sexually descriptive, a great dialogue, and glimpses of a wide spectrum of dikes, fags and trans of (of all sexes) from the past & also for the future! As said previously, the Author’s great humor is reflected in PASSAGE, such as the tale of Mademoiselle X and the silver tea service set! Typewritten in the authors original font and not spell checked. A true collectors dream. Food for the troubled souls of our times. Book Review provided by RED JORDAN PRESS, 2005
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| ISBN | 9780977721238 |
| Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
| Publication Date | 15-Jun-05 |
| Publisher | Red Jordan Press |
| Format | Plastic Comb |
| No. of Pages | 206 |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Volume | Volume 1 |
| BookID | 9616 |
