BOOK REVIEWS: Tea And Transition, Barriers To Love

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Tea and Transition: A Story of Love, the Human Spirit, and How One Man Became One Woman, by Nicola Jane Chase (Telemachus Press: 2015)

Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity, by Marina Peralta with Penolope James (Barriers Press: 2013

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[musicman]

I've been exploring the world of audio books, and yesterday downloaded from my library an old James Bond novel, From Russia With Love. Much to my surprise, even though I read that book more than once in my younger, Bond years (essentially age 15-20), I didn't recall the long introduction concerning the Russian KGB, MGB, SMERSH, etc. Imagine my surprise when it got to Colonlel Kleb, the odious, toad of a woman all too reminiscent of a former colleague at Old Yeller, when Ian Fleming went off on bi-sexuals, calling them Neuters, and ranting on the dangers of such people because they threaten all, even homosexuals (he is very anti-gay). This was the 1950s when Fleming wrote:
“For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.” - Ian Fleming, From Russia With Love