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Author Jacob Anderson-Minshall examines whether it's relevant for lesbians to read work by trans men. Using Patrick Califia's benchmark work Macho Sluts as a stepping off point, Jake examines his own transition and how the lesbian community repsonded. 'Think about your own experience for a moment.  Was your life a lie before you came out as lesbian?  Or had the truth not yet surfaced?  Can we be held accountable for truths we've hidden from ourselves?'

Summer vacation is one of the best times during the year to read a book. On the beach, in a plane or car... We’ve come a long way since 1928 when the lesbian book Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall was banned for obscenity. This summer pick up books by Kate Clinton, Staceyann Chin, Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall and the Seven Sisters' novel Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan, not to mention some lesbian erotica!

Thomas Beatie became known as the world's first pregnant man and now he is pregnant with baby number three. Some argue that because he is a trans man, it's not the same. We are just like other American men -- nerds, cowboys, suits, metrosexuals, jocks, chauvinist pigs, etc. Maybe by admitting that, by being forced to see ourselves reflected in Beatie’s mirror, we’ll find a way to accept ourselves as we are, with all our flaws, even as we struggle to show the world our true diversity. Trans man Jacob Anderson-Minshall breaks down the Beatie debate.

'Truth Serum has been digging me a huge hole of debt and tapping out my energy reserves,' Aliza Shapiro discloses about the Boston-based production company behind the popular, reoccurring, all-gender, all-genre performance cabaret, TraniWreck.

'I felt lost as a queer artist in the world,' laments Smitty Amabilis. 'I didn’t feel like I had any mentors.' To combat the 'erasure' marginalized artists face, Amabilis founded the Portland, Oregon art cooperative Collective of Geniuses.

In death, Michael Jackson is proving just as enigmatic as he was alive. His death seems to have raised more questions than answers: What caused his death? Who will get custody of his children?  Would the fifty-year-old Jackson have made it through the 50 concerts of his This is It tour? For the queer community, one of the biggest questions remains, was he one of us?  Was Jackson gay?  Was he transgender?

Sister Paula Nielsen, 'America’s foremost transgender evangelist' was born in Portland, Oregon in the late 1930s. Considering herself 'psychologically a woman,' Nielsen transitioned to a female identity in 1963. She remembers things being quite different for transsexuals in Sixties.

It’s hard to imagine that any couple could be busier than Diane and Jake Anderson-Minshall.The couple’s story began some 20 years ago… as a lesbian couple. They co-founded Girlfriends magazine in the early ‘90s and have spent many years as journalists for a variety of publications. In 2005 Jake underwent a gender reassignment transition, making their relationship more complex but no less committed. Diane is Curve's Editor-in-Chief and together they pen the Blind Faith series.

It was the fastest anyone has ever come out trans.  Within moments of TMZ’s June 11 announcement, emails, text messages, tweets and retweets zipped the news around the globe: Cher’s daughter Chasity Bono, was transitioning from lesbian to male.