Leslie Feinberg

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Leslie Feinberg (born 1949) is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg is known to be a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper. Despite popular belief, Leslie Feinberg was not born in Buffalo, NY. ^{[citation needed]}

Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender & Red," frequently appear in the Workers World newspaper. Feinberg's partner is the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. Feinberg has also been involved in Camp Trans.

Feinberg's novel Stone Butch Blues, which won the Stonewall Book Award, is a novel based around Jess Goldberg, a transgendered individual growing up in an unaccepting setting. Again, despite popular belief, the fictional work is not autobiographical. This book is frequently taught at colleges and universities and is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.

Leslie Feinberg identifies as gender-neutral.

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Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come. 1992, World View Forum. ISBN 0-89567-105-0
Stone Butch Blues. 1993, San Francisco: Firebrand Books. ISBN 1-55583-853-7
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. 1996, Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-7941-3
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. 1999, Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-7951-0
Drag King Dreams. 2006, New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1763-7