LGBTQ+ Issues

Rita Mae Brown's novels are celebrated as landmark feminist and lesbian works of fiction.

Journalists Donald Embinder, Jack Veasey, and George Bodamer join the show to discuss gay publications and gay life in Philadelphia.

Terry Gross speaks with transsexual artist Roberta Dickinson about transitioning. Later, doctors Terrence Malloy and James Gilfoil discuss transsexual identities, diagnoses and sexual reassignment surgery.

Blanche Wiesen Cook is the author of the new biography "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 1933-1938. (Viking) This edition covers The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the build-up to World War II. Cook a professor of history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is author of "Eleanor Roosevelt," "Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution," and "The Declassified Eisenhower."