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Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story
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ISBN10: 168134243X
ISBN13: 9781681342436
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Soc Pr
Published: Mar 14 2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781681342436
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Soc Pr
Published: Mar 14 2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A cisgender woman and her trans spouse learn, change, and grow together, navigating the transition, the communities they found, and the hostility they faced. The person I married, who I am still married to and remain very much in love with, is now legally named Venus de Mars, and she uses she and her pronouns. But to get to that point was a journey of decades. At the time we didn't know where it would lead--we had no real role models and made it up as we went. Most of this story took place at a time when the kind of knowledge and terminology we now have about being trans didn't exist. --from the Author's Note
In the 1970s, Lynette Reini fell in love with a fascinating, talented man named Steve Grandell. They married in 1983; five years later, Steve came out to her as transgender. Through the following decades, as her spouse developed a public persona as Venus de Mars and fronted the band All the Pretty Horses, the couple struggled to stay together. They navigated an often hostile, anti-trans environment; fractures grew between them as Venus pushed the band toward success. Against the backdrop of the art, literary, and indie rock worlds of Minneapolis and New York in the 1990s and early 2000s, through hard work and love, they invented a way of being who they truly are.
In Wild Things, Lynette Reini-Grandell shares a deeply personal story of love and growth.
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