Keith Stern: Queers in History – a review
Keith Stern (1952 – ) from Connecticut, started as a musician, and then worked for Warner Bros Records in promotion and public relations. He ran a punk/new wave club in 1979, and then promoted punk and new wave acts. The first version of Queers in History was published as a CD_ROM in 1993, and expanded as a book in 2009.
http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/03/keith-stern-queers-in-history-review.html (http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/03/keith-stern-queers-in-history-review.html)
From a trans perspective, the repeating problem with books about Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Trangenders is that trans persons get swamped by the other three categories. There are over 900 entries in this book. How many transsexuals? Two actually, Wendy Carlos and Candis Cayne. This matches the 1:500 estimate. Except of course that the 1:500 is against the total population, not the GLBT population. If we take GLBTs to be around 10% (a rough figure that dates back to Kinsey) then there should be 20 transsexuals in the book.