How long does it take to read We Both Laughed In Pleasure?
Lou Sullivan, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma, Susan Stryker
We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma, Susan Stryker takes about 8 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 4 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2019. 440 pages, about 121,000 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition. We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay trans man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age eleven until his AIDS-related death at thirty-nine. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives. Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan’s self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure.
Subjects: LGBTQ gender identity, LGBTQ biography and memoir, LGBTQ diaries, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Diaries
