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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology, and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Love

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology, and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Love - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kate BornsteinSeries:Beacon ClassicsPublish date:6/2/2026Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Beacon PressISBN-13:9780807024164ISBN-10:0807024163UPC:9780807024164Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Gender Studies, ScientologySize:9.28 x 6.31 x 1.16 inchesWeight:0.581Product ID:SC69GY8G20
The deluxe hardcover edition of a nice Jewish boy's stunning memoir of leaving the Church of Scientology to become the lovely lady she is today

Part of the Beacon Classics series

In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman--and became a famous gender outlaw.

Gender theorist, performance artist, and author Kate Bornstein is set to change lives with her stunningly original memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein's most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Beacon PressISBN-13:9780807024164ISBN-10:0807024163UPC:9780807024164Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Gender Studies, ScientologySize:9.28 x 6.31 x 1.16 inchesWeight:0.581Product ID:SC69GY8G20
Kate Bornstein is a performance artist and playwright who has authored several award-winning books, including Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and The Rest of Us, My Gender Workbook, and Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. She has earned two citations of honor from the New York City Council and garnered praise from civil rights groups around the globe. Kate lives in New York City with her girlfriend, three cats, two dogs, and a turtle.
Publisher: Beacon Press

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Kate Bornstein

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