Tranny - Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (Broché)

"Tranny is an ambassador for the gender revolution ... and a potent tool for empathy that hasn't quite existed in pop culture... grace and co-writer dan ozzi spin green room drama and rock star recklessness into a gem of a rock bio that belongs on a shelf alongside hammer of the gods and get in the van." Paste magazine, best nonfiction books of the year. Since its inception in 1997, Against Me ! has been one of punk's most influential modern bands, but also one of its most divisive.
With every notch the four-piece climbed through their career, they simultaneously gained new fans and infuriated their old ones. They suffered legal woes, a revolving cast of drummers, and a horde of angry, militant punks who called them "sellouts" and tried to sabotage their shows at every turn. But underneath the public turmoil, something much greater occupied the group's founder, Tom Gabel, a secret kept for 30 years, only acknowledged in the scrawled-out pages of personal journals and hidden in lyrics.
Through a troubled childhood, delinquency, and struggles with drugs, Gabel was on a punishing search for identity. Not until May 2012 did a Rolling Stone profile finally reveal it : Gabel is transgender, and would from then on be living as a woman under the name Laura Jane Grace. Tranny is the intimate story of Against Me ! 's enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept.
More than a typical music memoir about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, although it certainly has plenty of that, Tranny is an inside look at one of the most remarkable stories in the history of rock.