“I’d like to send this one out to Lou and Rachel,” Lou Reed croons at the end of the title track to his 1975 album Coney Island Baby. At the time, Reed was head over heels with Rachel Humphries, a Mexican-American trans woman who appeared alongside him on album covers, on stage, and through his […] The post Lauren J. Joseph’s New Novel Turns the Trans Rock Muse Into an Erotic Phantasmagoria appeared first on Electric Literature .