A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology, and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Love

The deluxe hardcover edition of a nice Jewish boy’s stunning memoir of leaving the Church of Scientology to become the lovely lady she is today

In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman–and became a famous gender outlaw.

Gender theorist, performance artist, and author Kate Bornstein is set to change lives with her stunningly original memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein’s most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.

Author: Kate Bornstein
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 06/02/2026
Series: Beacon Classics
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.31w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780807024164
Language: English