title: Friday Night Lipstick: Transgender Erotic Romance
author:  Giselle Renarde 
description: Giselle Renarde is a queer Canadian, contributor to more than 100 short story anthologies, and author of the award-winning trans lesbian erotic romance, The Red Satin Collection.
zlib_text: PRAISE FOR _GLITTER UP THE DARK_
  
  “Fortunately, there are progressive art objects. There are transgressive art
  objects. But every now and then, we get revolutionary art objects that change
  how we talk, read, and think. Sasha Geffen’s _Glitter Up the Dark_ changed the
  way I hear music and the convenient way I understand gender and performance in
  and outside of music. One will not hear or reproduce traditional
  understandings of gender ever again after experiencing this boldly brilliant
  book.”
  
   **—KIESE LAYMON,** author of _Heavy_
  
  “Sasha Geffen follows the glamour and the glitter across a musical universe of
  queer and trans performances. Not looking simply at particular stars nor
  following a musical movement like punk from its roots to its demise, _Glitter
  Up the Dark_ travels the multiple lanes of a trans-musical express. With riffs
  on the trans voice; careful attention to histories of performance, reception,
  and fashion; and theories of queer time and space, this book sparkles and
  glo