Halberstam's 1998 book Female Masculinity stands next to Feinberg's work in the canon of lesbian history and explorations of butch gender identities.

'Leslie Feinberg had a massive impact on the way we speak about interlocking oppressions under capitalism,' said author and academic J. 'Leslie taught me that there is beauty and strength in being gender-queer and that being an activist is about transcending the boundaries of your primary cause and standing up to be present for the Revolution,' said musician JD Samson in a statement emailed to VICE.īorn to a working-class Jewish family, Feinberg became involved with the socialist Workers World Party at a young age and was made managing editor of the Workers World newspaper in 1995.įrom 2004-2008 Feinberg wrote the 'Lavender & Red' column for Worker's World, chronicling LGBT history in international communist and socialist culture.

'It matters whether someone is using the pronoun as a bigot, or if they are trying to demonstrate respect,' the obituary quotes Feinberg as saying. Anderson-Minshall said that Stone Butch Blues was 'pivotal' for both her husband and herself.Īccording to Feinberg's partner Pratt, Feinberg preferred female pronouns or transgender pronouns like 'ze' and 'hir.' But in recent years, Feinberg publicly identified as transgender, and didn't feel it was necessary to correct reporters who referred to her as 'he.' Her own book, the 2014 memoir Queerly Beloved, documents her husband's gender transition from female to male. It was legendary and groundbreaking.'Īnderson-Minshall, editor of The Advocate, said she met Feinberg shortly after the publishing of Stone Butch Blues. 'It was so pivotal for lesbian readers and for trans identity. ' was really one of the first books that talked about FTM issues and the intersection between lesbian and transgender men as well as the indefinable step in between, where Leslie lived,' author Diane Anderson-Minshall told VICE today.

According to Pratt, Feinberg's last words were, 'Remember me as a revolutionary communist.'īut Feinberg will be best remembered for books like Transgender Warriors: Making History and Stone Butch Blues, which won the American Library Association's Gay & Lesbian Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Feinberg's longtime partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt, wrote a detailed obituary that appeared in LGBT news magazine The Advocate this morning.

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