Kay Gabriel’s ‘Perverts’ – Whipsmart celebrity

Here’s the set-up: in whip-smart, New York poet Kay Gabriel’s latest collection, “Perverts,” (Nightboat Books), she references and includes the poem “Trxnnies” by Larry Kramer. Let’s get this straight: Larry Kramer never wrote a poem called “Trxnnies,” but Gabriel provocatively imaginates such material.

“Perverts” is peopled by smart, competent, accomplished and substance-affected trans women and gender non-conforming people in all their maribou-feathered and crotchless-pantied glory. These gals reek of Shalimar and poppers. The collection is personned by the Dolls from the fictional Larry Kramer “Trxnnies” novel. 

There are those readers who will be offended by Gabriel’s use of the term “Trxnnies,” but she is allowed to use it as she is, in fact, trans. It’s like the F word, but T. Also