| A vanguard of the queer/trans community, Lynn Breedlove is a visionary who has long been shaping revolutionary art The founder and front person of the first American out dyke punk band Tribe 8, which has always stood for queer, transgender, multiracial, and working class visibility, Breedlove has toured Europe and North America with Tribe 8 as well as Rise Above: The Tribe8 Documentary. The acclaimed author of Godspeed toured the autobiographical novel a multi-media solo show highlighted by the music and photos of women, queers, dykes, and transfolk. Breedlove has been a featured performer at Sister Spit, Michigan Women’s Music Fest, SF Tranny March, and multiple Ladyfests and Pride fests over the last fifteen years, including Europride 2000 in Rome. Breedlove hosts Kvetch, an 8-year running queer open mic in San Francisco, as well as Gender Pirates, an ongoing cabaret benefiting United Genders of the Universe, a support and education outreach group for gender variants in the Bay Area. On community radio station Pirate Cat Radio, Breedlove hosts the Unka Lynnee Show, a two hour cavalcade of queer hits throughout the ages, liberally sprinkled with comic feminist and trans theory. The transgender “Man with a vagina” monologue was performed at the behest of Eve Ensler for UC Berkeley’s 2005 production of the Vagina Monologues. “Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show" is currently touring the US and Europe in five languages on trans body issues, feminism, community, and family. Available now: Godspeed the audio book on MP3, a new Tribe 8 CD with lyrics on issues of gender identity, sexuality, class, feminism, queer families, and community. In the works: a translation of Godspeed for publication in Germany, Spring '07, and Godspeed the short film, written, co-directed and starring Breedlove, shooting in Summer ‘06. |