FTM, issue #10 (December 1989)

FTM was a quarterly newsletter started by activist and author Lou Sullivan in 1987. Sullivan, who had founded the organization FTM International, hoped to promote an understanding of transmasculine people and wanted to provide services and community to their lives. The FTM newsletter contained everything, like articles on topical FTM issues, local events, advertisements selling the latest stand-to-pee protheses, and a "classifieds" section for those looking for social connection.

The FTM newsletter would run for sixty-seven issues over twenty-one years, from 1987 to 2008. After Sullivan's untimely death from AIDS-related illness, the responsibility passed on to author Jamison "James" Green.

Some of the names and information in the newsletter below have been redacted for personal safety.

FTM Newsletter (and redactions) are courtesy of the University of Victoria's Transgender Archives. The Trans Guy Archive shares this content for the purposes of education and historical empowerment.

Language: English

Resource type: newsletter

Format: PDF

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