Life's a Beach
WetHotAmerican Summer
Summer Babes
Honky Tonkin
Unchained Melodies
Lost Mixtapes Vol 1
Beach Drinking [mix for Homoground.com]
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RESOURCES FOR YR TRANSITION
Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
Feminizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts
The Transsexual’s Survival Guide: To Transition & Beyond
[for MTF & FTM]
FOR FAMILIES, FRIENDS, CO-WORKERS, & ALLIES
Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones, 2nd Edition [Absolutely the best book I have found about having a trans family member and/or loved one. It is a collection of essays and letters written from family members or from the trans person about his/her/their family.] 3rd Edition here.
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers [This is one of the books my therapist recommended to my parents when I came out]
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People [great for those of you who are interested in the science of gender-variance! my therapist gave my parents excerpts from this book and my girlfriend bought it for me! it’s really great]
The Transsexual’s Survival Guide II: To Transition & Beyond for Family, Friends, & Employers
Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not
Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents
MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green [A memoir of transition and trans advocacy. My transbuddy loaned this to me and so far I love it]
She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband by Helen Boyd [She runs a great blog called My Husband Betty]
Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
Two Truths and a Lie by Scott Turner Schofield
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods - My Mother’s, My Father’s, and Mine
The Woman I was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl
QUEER/GENDER THEORY & HISTORY
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
TransLiberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex
FICTION
[this story about an FTM high school student is supposed to be AMAZING]
SEX & MISCELLANEOUS
The Ultimate Guide to Strap-On Sex: A Complete Resource for Women and Men
[includes specific information for FTMs and MTFs!!]
[Dan Savage says this “should be required reading for anyone who has a penis, wants a penis, or loves someone woh has or wants a penis.” woo!]
