Background

Lynn Breedlove was born Lynnee Breedlove on June 13, 1965, in Oakland, California. Lynn is a trans man.

Education

Lynn Breedlove studied at California State University. He got a Bachelor of Arts in 1989.

Career

Although Lynn Breedlove wrote his first poem when he was in the third grade and had it published in his local paper, Lynn didn't begin writing in earnest until he was in his thirties.

In the early 1990s, Lynn Breedlove started a punk band a Tribe 8. Tribe 8 toured throughout the United States. They also played in Europe and Canada and released several recordings on independent record labels. The band lasted for fourteen years.

In 1991 Lynn Breedlove founded a delivery service, "Lickety Split All-Girl."

In 1993, he began writing a novel and finished it nearly nine years later while on tour with his band. The resulting book, "Godspeed," is autobiographical and based on stories that have been told by his friends in the gay community. The book was published in 2002 and translated into German "Goetterspeed." Lynn is also the author of "Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show" and "45 Thought Crimes."

Also, Lynn Breedlove has his comedy show, "One Freak Show."

In 2015, Lynn Breedlove founded a new band, the Homobiles, with Ed Varga, Mya Byrne, Rhys Fureigh, Stephany Ashley, and Corrie Bennett. Punk group's songs are about cars and babes, crimes and change, bathhouses, and ballot measures.

Lynn Breedlove currently writes, teaches at the Harvey Milk Institute, and runs his "Homobiles" in San Francisco, a 24/7 volunteer-run car service that safely transports lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender folks.

Achievements

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  Lynn Breedlove is widely known as a musician, performer, and writer. He is a founder of Tribe 8 in 1991, and he is a founder of Homobiles in 2015.
  
  Besides, Lynn Breedlove is a writer. He is the author of "Godspeed," "Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show," and "45 Thought Crimes." Lynn was nominated for a "Lambda Literary Award" for "Godspeed."
  
  Lynn has his comedy show, "One Freak Show," which consists of 2004.
  
  Lynn Breedlove was the founder of the delivery service "Lickety Split All-Girl Courier," and he currently is a founder and director of car service "Homobiles."
  
  Lynn Breedlove was highly appreciated by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors during Transgender Awareness Week in 2019.

Works

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• book

  • Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show

    (With universal appeal, aimed at "Everyone who wants to be...)

    2009
  • Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

    ("Queercore" traces the history of a scene originally "fab...)

    2020
  • 45 Thought Crimes

    ("45 Thought Crimes" conveys a lineage of resistance and p...)

    2019
  • Godspeed

    (Jim is a butch bike messenger and speedfreak who is sudde...)

    2002

• music

  • Allen's Mom 1995
  • Roadkill Cafe 1995
  • Fist City 1995
  • Snarkism 1996
  • Role Models for Amerika 1998
  • By the Time We Get to Colorado 1995
  • Burnin' Rubber 2017

Views

As a transgender man himself, Lynn Breedlove's no stranger to judgment from ignorant people. He takes folks who are transitioning to and from their gender confirmation surgeries and related appointments.

Quotations: "For the people that we are trying to serve, a surgery like that [gender reassignment] can relieve depression, stress, and anxiety and help you to get on with their life."

"I'd like to see a world where everyone got the same rights regardless of gender, sexuality, marriage, race, class."

"I want to create a world that includes people that I like and that I respect and that I relate to. And people that are all on the same road of resisting together by the things that we do every day. Whether we're in a band together or we work together. That's how I want to create my world."

"If you get together with other people who have purpose and... are on the same path as you, you can act a lot of stuff."

Connections

colleague:

Ed Varga

Ed Varga is a founder of Homo A Gogo.

colleague:

Mya Adriene Byrne

colleague:

Rhys Fureigh

Rhys Fureigh is a former guitarist for the Shondes.

colleague:

Stephany Joy Ashley

Stephany Joy Ashley is an executive director of Saint James Infirmary Clinic.

colleague:

Corrie Bennett

References

• Lynn Breedlove - official website
• Lynn Breedlove - LinkedIn