Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues author and transgender campaigner, dies at 65

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Source: The Guardian

Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues author and transgender campaigner, dies at 65

Martin Pengelly in New York
theguardian.com, Monday 17 November 2014 21.42 GMT

Leslie Feinberg, the author of the seminal transgender novel Stone Butch Blues, has died at home in Syracuse, New York, at the age of 65.

An obituary written by Feinberg’s wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt, said Feinberg was “an anti-racist white, working class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist”.

Feinberg was born in Kansas City on 1 September 1949, and raised in Buffalo. Though born female, Feinberg said her gender expression was seen as male. In her obituary for Feinberg, Pratt referred to her spouse as “she”.

Discussing her identity and preference for being addressed as “she” and “her”, Feinberg once said: “I care which pronoun is used, but people have been disrespectful to me with the wrong pronoun and respectful with the right one. It matters whether someone is using the pronoun as a bigot, or if they are trying to demonstrate respect.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/17/leslie-feinberg-author-transgender-campaigner-dies-65

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I wish her wife comfort.