In this episode I speak with Rosalyne Blumenstein.
Rosalyne is now a social worker living in California, but in 2003 she wrote a memoir titled Branded T which detailed very openly her time living and working in Times Square during the 1980s. Rosalyne’s book also documented her social and medical gender transition, and we discuss her thoughts on having shared so openly about that process. We also talk about the New York nightclubs she worked in or frequented, including the 220 Club, GG Barnum Room, and Gilded Grape, and how those spaces shaped her process of self discovery.