Patrick Califia
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Pat Califia (http://www.patcalifia.com/) is a writer (erotica and SF), sex activist, and therapist.
Califia began writing professionally as a lesbian activist who wrote S&M erotica. At the time, many lesbians and feminists considered S&M inappropriate to the lesbian and feminist culture. Califia was a contributor to Coming to Power: Writing and graphics on Lesbian S/M and the coeditor of The Second Coming: Leatherdyke Reader, both of which argued the contrary. Her short-story lesbian S&M collection, Macho Sluts, remains popular.
During the mid-1990s, Califia transitioned to male, and at the same time changed his name to Patrick Califia.
Bibliography
- Mortal Companion (2004 vampire novel)
- Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker (Alyson, 1990 SF novel)
- The Shield Goes North (forthcoming novel in The Circle of Life series, a pagan fantasy series)
Non-SFnal works
- "A Personal View of the History of the Lesbian S/M Community and Movement in San Francisco", in Coming to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M (Samois Collective, 1983)
- Macho Sluts (1988 collection)
- Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality (1988 nonfiction lesbian sex guide)
- Doing It for Daddy: Short Sexy Fiction About a Very Forbidden Fantasy (1994 porn collection)
- Editor, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada (1995 anthology)
- Melting Point: A Collection of Erotic Short Stories (1996 collection of lesbian porn)
- Editor, The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader (1996 anthology)
- Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism (1997 nonfiction; 2 editions)
- Sensuous Magic: A Guide for Adventurous Lovers (1998; nonfiction SM guide; 2 editions)
- No Mercy (2000 collection)
- Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex (2000 collection of essays on radical sex)
- Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex (2001)
- Boy in the Middle: Erotic Fiction (2005 collection)
- "A Swimmer's Body" (short story)
- Diesel Fuel (poetry collection)
- Speaking Sex to Power (essay collection)
- Hard Men (collection of gay porn)