After marrying a queer man, Johnny Volcano, Del took on their current name to challenge the "bi-gendered status quo."
[4] Prior to moving to San Francisco when they were nineteen,[5] Volcano attended Allan Hancock College as a student in the Visual Studies program from 1977 to 1979.
In these newer works, Volcano takes on the loss of their friend, Kathy Acker and the transformation of their lover Simo Maronati's abled body into a disabled one.
A part time gender terrorist and an intentional mutation My journey must be distinguished from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at "normalization".
[13] Love Bites, as Della Grace, published by Gay Men's Press, London, 1991: "In the USA it was banned by Customs & Excise for two weeks.
In England it was sold by mainstream booksellers but not in lesbian or gay bookshops who protested they couldn't take the risk or disagreed with the SM content.
"[14][15][16] Specifically, Silver Moon women's bookshop in London supported the work, but were concerned about being prosecuted, whilst Sisterwrite refused to sell the book because of its SM content.
Volcano, in the book's forward, describes their first experience with a drag king act, which took place in San Francisco in 1985 when "the On Our Backs/ BurLEZK gang were putting on strip shows for lesbians at The Baybrick Inn.
LaGrace Volcano skillfully demonstrates that sublime mutations are always already the transformations that viewers project on the physical world, and especially on the body.
Other contributors include Judith Butler, Patrick Califia, Cheryl Chase, Larry Kramer, and Stephen Whittle.
Published by Serpent's Tail in 2008[25][26] A contribution to Intersex and After, an issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies edited by Iain Morland in 2009.