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Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930-November 27, 1978), born in Woodmere, NY, was a US Navy veteran, businessman, and Democrat politician who, on November 8, 1977, became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A year later, on November 27, 1978, Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by disgruntled former City Supervisor Dan White in the offices of San Francisco's City Hall. The following audio recording is from a 1978 tv interview.

Renée Richards, formerly Richard Raskind, (born August 19, 1934) is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who played professionally as a woman from 1977 to 1981, when she retired at age 47. Richards became known worldwide, following male-to-female medical transition, when she fought to compete as a woman at the 1976 US Open. Richards played her first professional event as a female at the U.S. Open the following year, and was ranked as high as 20th in the world in February 1979. The following recordings are from interviews in 1976, 1977 and 1980.

How I Learned to Hate Myself is a book about autism, abuse, growing up queer, navigating the mental health system, trying to find love, and desperately clinging to the parts of myself that felt real in a world that insisted that my reality was wrong.

Neste livro autobiográfico, Anderson Herzer, um jovem homem trans narra seus atribulados anos iniciais, sua passagem por instituições como a Febem, a formação de sua identidade e os laços, amorosos e de amizade, que construiu ao longo do tempo. Autor com baixa escolaridade formal, Herzer relata sua vida com uma maestria impressionante, criando uma obra fluida e comovente.

Long-buried family secrets. Nights lost to alcohol. An arrest that changed everything. For years, he thought the hardest part of his journey was coming to terms with being gay.But life had other plans. As his addiction spirals out of control, he is forced to confront the family he thought he knew. A shocking arrest becomes a wake up call he never saw coming. The truth about his birth unravels the relationship with his family leading to a final reckoning that will either break him or set him free. Told with raw honesty and unflinching vulnerability, this memoir is a powerful story of ...

Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery with Joy Realized by Emily Tiffany Joy, a personal journal spanning years of real-time interactive online writing. This captivating memoir offers a raw and unfiltered glimpse into the author's profound experiences, from navigating her gender transition to overcoming personal struggles. Through heartfelt prose and candid reflections, Emily's resilience and pursuit of authenticity will inspire and uplift listeners.

Persephone has lived in forty-two homes in seven different states, most of which was before she was a freshman in high school. Her parents set their own agenda for life, shamelessly bringing their kids along for the rocky, steep ride. The Girl Who Wasn’t Me tells the story of a complicated relationship with her mom- in this case, one who was struggling with undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder (known as Asperger’s at the time) and depression and who would enter and exit her children’s life on a whim, not concerned with her children’s well-being. Persephone recounts how she was drawn...