Valencia is a 2000 Lambda Literary Award-winning[1] novel by Michelle Tea.

It is an autobiographical novel detailing the narrator's experiences in San Francisco's queer subculture.

It includes experimentation with consensual sado-masochism after the author meets Petra, a knife-wielder; as well as Willa, a tormented poet; and Iris, a young butch who escaped from a repressive southern upbringing to San Francisco.

They include Cheryl Dunye, Courtney Trouble, trans film maker Amos Mac, documentarian Hilary Goldberg and others.

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