Mack Friedman’s Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler Culture, published in 2003. Hubert Selby Jr. delivers an emotionally devastating portrait of working-class queer sexuality in post–World War II America in his Last Exit to Brooklyn (first published in 1964), which integrates the story of a trans character, Georgette, into the overarching story of life in a gritty urban neighborhood.
