Allan D. Hunter

Allan Hunter grew up partly in Valdosta GA and partly in Los Alamos NM and first attempted to come out as genderqueer in 1980, an endeavor made difficult by the fact that there was no such term for it in 1980.  He has used many words and phrases over the intervening years, including "sissy" and "coed feminist" and "straightbackwards", but currently identifies as a "gender invert" which is a subtype of genderqueer, and colloquially refers to himself as a "male girl".

He has lived in the greater New York City / Long Island region since 1984.  He came to the area in order to major in women's studies and to discuss gender and related topics, and is the author of "Same Door, Different Closet:  A Heterosexual Sissy's Coming-Out Party"  (published in the academic journal FEMINISM and PSYCHOLOGY in 1992).

"Same Door Different Closet" was reprinted twice in subsequent anthologies (Fem & Psych's own special reader HETEROSEXUALITY in 1993, and Heasley & Crane's SEXUAL LIVES: A READER ON THE THEORIES AND REALITIES OF HUMAN SEXUALITIES, McGraw-Hill 2002).  A second theory paper, "The Feminist Perspective in (and/or On) the Field of Sociology" was made available for credited distribution and was included in a compendium,  READINGS IN FEMINIST THEORY, Ed. S. M. Channa, Cosmo Publications.

Genderqueer, published by Sunstone Press in 2020, was his first serious attempt to write for the market outside of the academic journal environment.  It is autobiographical, although the names were changed (Hunter refers to himself as the character "Derek Turner" throughout).  This book is a coming-of-age / coming-out story about being genderqueer in an era before there was any label or any consciousness of such an identity.

Hunter is active in local and regional organizations where he speaks to small groups about gender issues. He has addressed college women's studies groups, alternative-lifestyle social groups, and given talks at LGBT centers.