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1. 1. Candy Darling

   Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

   

   A deeply researched biography that traces the life of a 1960s–70s trans icon who fashioned herself into a Hollywood starlet in downtown New York, from a fraught Long Island childhood and early obsessions with cinema to the Factory films, off-Broadway collaborations, and the costs of fame, misogyny, and transphobia. Drawing on archives, letters, and interviews, it separates persona from person, illuminates intimate relationships, and situates her brief, incandescent career—and early death—within the wider history of queer visibility and the cultural ferment of the era.

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