Jun 15 2012
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
Al Bornstein was born in 1948, into a Conservative Jewish East coast family. He went to college at the prestigious Brown University, graduated in1969, and in the summer of 1970 stumbled onto a Scientology center in Denver, Colorado. There Bornstein began taking classes, and was swiftly recruited into the Scientologists’ elite sailing crew, the Sea Org. Al signed a “billion year” contract to serve the organization along with the woman who would be his first wife and the mother of his only child, a daughter they named Jessica. Eleven years later Al was excommunicated from the Church and shortly thereafter gave into a lifelong desire and began transitioning to living life as a woman named Kate.
A pioneer in raising awareness of the transgender community, Kate Bornstein authored the groundbreaking 1994 book Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, followed by a number of acclaimed books that challenge the traditional belief that there are only two genders, male, or female. Her newest work is A Queer and Pleasant Danger, a no-holds barred memoir and an open letter to her estranged daughter and grandchildren.
On June 15, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Kate Bornstein about her new book.
Watch a video of the interview here:
This video was recorded by Martina Steiner
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