From the provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a headful of anarchist politics, landed on a riff. Gabel formed Against Me!
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Black Lives Matter. We stand in solidarity with those affected by generations of structural violence. You can help ». Subscribe now. The first thing you need to know about this memoir is that it gets better. Like most rock memoirs, Tranny has a lot of band fights, violence, drugs, alcohol binges, sex, and more drugs. While Against Me! I also remember listening to much more successful punk musicians than Against Me! I also have to question this struggle for punk rock artistic integrity coming from a musician who chose to come out as transgender in a feature interview in Rolling Stone —a brilliant act of publicity but not one necessarily in line with punk rock credibility. But there is also much here that deserves both sympathy and respect: the courage to write about gender dysphoria, the difficult decisions Gabel made to become Grace, and the desire to find and maintain both artistic and personal integrity.
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