A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and...
- ISBN-10
- 080700166X
- ISBN-13
- 9780807001660
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-05-01
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Author
- Kate Bornstein
Description
A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw. Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance artist, author—is set to change lives with her compelling memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein's most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.
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