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| date_death= November 15, 2014 | |||
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'''Leslie Feinberg''' (September 1, 1949 – November 15, 2014) was a revolutionary transgender activist who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist. She used zie/hir and she/her pronouns. | '''Leslie Feinberg''' (September 1, 1949 – November 15, 2014) was a revolutionary transgender activist who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist. She used zie/hir and she/her pronouns. | ||
Feinberg was the opening speaker at the historic rally on the 25th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall rally in New York City-a rally that drew one million people from across the country and around the world. A video about Leslie Feinberg entitled Outlaw has been distributed by Women Make Movies nationally and internationally. Feinberg's novel, Stone Butch Blues, published on March 1, 1993 by Firebrand Books, has received a wildly popular response in the United States and has been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Slovenian and Hebrew. The novel won the prestigious American Library Association Award for Gay and Lesbian Literature and a LAMBDA Literary Award (Leslie Feinberg).<ref name="lesliefeinberg">[http://www.lesliefeinberg.net/ Village Voice]</ref> | Feinberg was the opening speaker at the historic rally on the 25th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall rally in New York City-a rally that drew one million people from across the country and around the world. A video about Leslie Feinberg entitled Outlaw has been distributed by Women Make Movies nationally and internationally. Feinberg's novel, ''Stone Butch Blues'', published on March 1, 1993 by Firebrand Books, has received a wildly popular response in the United States and has been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Slovenian and Hebrew. The novel won the prestigious American Library Association Award for Gay and Lesbian Literature and a LAMBDA Literary Award (Leslie Feinberg).<ref name="lesliefeinberg">[http://www.lesliefeinberg.net/ Village Voice]</ref> | ||
Zie also wrote multiple books, starting with ''Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul''.<ref>[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3171282 Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul]</ref> It was the first "analysis of the historical roots of transgender oppression (Leslie Feinberg)." The book won the 1996 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Non-Fiction, and in 1996, the paperback edition was released under "Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman". This book also contained speeches and/or memoirs by other transgender activists. | Zie also wrote multiple books, starting with ''Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul''.<ref>[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3171282 Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul]</ref> It was the first "analysis of the historical roots of transgender oppression (Leslie Feinberg)." The book won the 1996 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Non-Fiction, and in 1996, the paperback edition was released under "Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman". This book also contained speeches and/or memoirs by other transgender activists. | ||