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Author and transgender activist Leslie Feinberg is dead at 65

Author and transgender activist Leslie Feinberg is dead at 65

Leslie Feinberg, the author best known for the 1993 novel “Stone Butch Blues,” died Saturday at home in Syracuse, N.Y., of “complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections,” according to Feinberg’s partner and spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, a poet and professor at Syracuse University. Feinberg was 65.

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