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In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see—both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections. Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects and resistance groups fall apart because people treat each other poorly, trying desperately to live out the cultural myths about dating and relationships that we are fed from an early age.

On September 3rd, 1971, at the dawn of the modern gay movement, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. But the battle to get there - legal and emotional - was only the start of their incredible lives together. Jack enrolled in law school, keeping his promise to Michael that he would figure out a way to marry. He did, but the repercussions would echo not only through their lives, but through those of every gay person in the US who ever wanted what this one pioneering couple did: a happy family life.

Welcome to my World of Modern Romance. I want to take you on a journey around many kinds of love: self love, marriage, lust and sex, and everything in between. I live in a realm between a romance fantasy land and being a hopeless romantic. What can I say, I find bits of myself in all of them! It became blatantly apparent last year, in 2020. What an insane year! Turns out I have quite a vulnerable heart and I tend to give into these romantic tendencies that have been both a blessing and a curse.