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Take Me There is a unique collection of erotic tales that foregrounds the pleasure, diversity, and complexity of transgender and genderqueer sexualities. The stories span settings from San Francisco to Israel, cutting across emotional ranges—heartache, lust, and everything in between—and exploring a wide spectrum of gender expressions, including transitions from male to female, female to male, and beyond.
The anthology brings together contributions from noted writers such as Kate Bronstein, Patrick Califia, S. Bear Bergman, Ivan Coyote, Julia Serano, Laura Antoniou, Helen Boyd, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Sinclair Sexsmith, among others. Together, they illuminate a reality that is often oversimplified, sensationalized, or invisible in mainstream media.
By combining varied narrative voices with intimate, unapologetic depictions of erotic desire, Take Me There offers readers a powerful, inclusive celebration of transgender and genderqueer pleasure and identity.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Transgender Fiction
Authors: Tristan Taormino
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