ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME": The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self. It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a headful of anarchist politics, landed on a riff. Gabel formed Against Me! and rocketed the band from its scrappy beginnings-banging on a drum kit made of pickle buckets-to a major-label powerhouse that critics have called this generation's The Clash. Since its inception in 1997, Against Me! has been one of punk's most influential modern bands, but also one of its most divisive. With every notch the four-piece climbed in their career, they gained new fans while infuriating their old ones. They suffered legal woes, a revolving door of drummers, and a horde of angry, militant punks who called them "sellouts" and tried to sabotage their shows at every turn. But underneath the public turmoil, something much greater occupied Gabel-a secret kept for 30 years, only acknowledged in the scrawled-out pages of personal journals and hidden in lyrics. Through a troubled childhood, delinquency, and struggles with drugs, Gabel was on a punishing search for identity. Not until May of 2012 did a Rolling Stone profile finally reveal it: Gabel is a transsexual, and would from then on be living as a woman under the name Laura Jane Grace. Tranny is the intimate story of Against Me!'s enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept. More than a typical music memoir about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-although it certainly has plenty of that-Tranny is an inside look at one of the most remarkable stories in the history of rock.

The story of a female to male transexual and his dike biker friends in the Outlaws Biker Gang. His transition, life and loves circa 1998. 8th book in the popular series THE OUTLAW CHRONICLES by Master Artist Red Jordan Arobateau.

"From celebrated music writer Dan Ozzi comes a comprehensive chronicle of the punk music scene's evolution from the early nineties to the mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they dissolved, "sold out," and rose to surprise stardom. From its inception, punk music has been identified by two factors: its proximity to "authenticity," and its reliance on an antiestablishment ethos. Yet, in the mid- to late '90s, major record labels sought to capitalize on punk's rebellious undertones, leading to a schism in the scene: to accept the cash flow of the majors, or stick to indie cred?Sellout chronicles the evolution of the punk scene during this era, focusing on prominent bands as they experienced the last "gold rush" of the music industry. Within it, music writer Dan Ozzi follows the rise of successful bands like Green Day and Jimmy Eat World, as well as the implosion of groups like Jawbreaker and At the Drive-In, who buckled under the pressure of their striving labels. Featuring original interviews and personal stories from members of eleven of modern punk's most (in)famous bands, Sellout is the history of the evolution of the music industry, and a punk rock lover's guide to the chaotic darlings of the post-grunge era. "--

Now in its eighth edition, with over 300 glossy pages, thsi is without doubt the world's most detailed and comprehensive guide to the cross-dressing scene. Every year a new edition brings new personal reports from around thw world, articles and pictures to fascinate and to proivie participants and onlookers a greater awareness and understanding of the scene. This year includes a guide to make-up, with super quality, stage by stage pictures of transition from boy to girl.

Aiming with each new edition to increase awareness and understanding of the scale and diversity of the cross-dressing and transgender phenomena, the 11th edition features many unique and inspirational photo-reports from around the world. With over 1000 photos, the aptly-named 'Tranny Bible' is not just for transgendered people anymore!

"It is only an exciting game, a role-play for adults. And it is only for tonight", his stepmother whispers seductively in his ear while she tenderly caresses his young body. And indeed, it is a glorious experience when she turns him into her tranny lover that night, so exciting that he is eager to prolong it. After make-up and deportment lessons, his stepmom takes him out, all made up and glamorous, to shop for underwear and shoes and clothes. Totally unaware that he is getting more and more entangled in a slowly closing web, he enjoys his new shemale identity during those early summer months. Then, one day, the web closes with a snap and he suddenly discovers the dark side of the 'game'. He has been turned into a full time shemale escort and there is no going back ...

Cartoonist Steve Lafler presents Tranny vixen Fiona Mallratte in a hilarious new book, where she emphasizes the "$99 Drag Makeover" and getting dolled up for Halloween. She also asks the eternal question: "Aren't superheroes just a bunch of trannys?!" Fiona appears on the redlafler YouTube channel, which has received over 150,000 video views and counting. Fiona Mallratte considers the transcendent thrill of drag equal, at the very least, to the exotic rush experienced by Spider Man or Batman as they boldly take the city at night.

Dear reader, Inside this book you will find more than words on a page. You will find pieces of people and pain. You will find fragmented bits of myself that I have freed, tied, and typed. Though this book is about my pain and place among my identities, it is my belief that some of it may resonate with you as well. My wish for you reading this is that you find more avenues of intersection than discrepancies and more parallels than polarities. Pain is a powerful force. It can divide, but it can also connect. And because pain never occurs alone, I hope my book will show how we are never that far from one another.

Jonathan Ames, whose debut novel I Pass Like Night was enthusiastically praised by Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, has followed up with a brilliant and comic second novel. Louis Ives, the narrator of The Extra Man, fancies himself a young gentleman fashioned after his heroes in the books of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He dresses the part -- favoring neckties, blue blazers, and sport coats. But he also has a penchant for women's clothing, a weakness that causes him to lose his job as a teacher at a Princeton day school after a bizarre incident involving a colleague's brassiere. Thrust out of Princeton, he heads to New York where he rents a cheap room in the madly discombobulated apartment of Henry Harrison, a failed but brilliant playwright who dances alone to Ethel Merman records, sneaks into Broadway shows, and performs with great style the duties of a walker -- an escort for the rich widows of the Upper East Side. The two men, separated in age by more than forty years, develop a relationship that is irascible mentor and eager apprentice, and they form a bond the depths of which neither expected. But Louis, when he's not with Henry, has fascinations that lead him to an unusual community on the fringes of the sex world of Times Square. He develops a secret life there, which he fears will be his undoing and which he must keep hidden from Henry at all costs. A hilarious yet moving story about friendship and longing, The Extra Man is an original and unforgettable novel by one of America's most talented young writers.