Patrick Califia

Quick Facts

Full Name	Patrick Califia
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 8, 1954(1954-03-08)
Age	70
Country	United States
Birth City	Corpus Christi
Horoscope	Pisces

Patrick Califia Biography

Patrick Califia is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 8, 1954 in Corpus Christi, United States. California was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1954. He lived in Utah as a member of a Latter-day Saint family. His father worked as a construction worker while mom was a domestic worker. Califia was the eldest child of the six. He has admitted that his family did not give him an enjoyable childhood. He has asserting that the man who raised him was a sour and violent person and his mother was a religious woman.

Califia began his studies at in the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in the year 1971. In 1981 He was awarded a degree from San Francisco State University (SFSU) with the degree of bachelor of arts in psychology. He has also stated that that he holds a master’s degree.

In 1979, as a student in psychology at San Francisco State University, his research was published in the Journal of Homosexuality.

In 1980, Califia published his first book—Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality, a non-fiction work for lesbians which described, in a non- judgmental tone, butch-femme sexuality, and BDSM safety and practice. Subsequently, he published work in lesbian, gay and feminist magazines, including a long-running sex advice column in The Advocate.

The 1970s were a time when California’s parents were able to get him admitted to a psychiatric institution and he was kicked from college (the University of Utah in Salt Lake City) due to his mental health. Califia became an lesbian in the year 1971, while studying at the college. He began to use the name of Califia, a reference to her mythological female warrior Amazon. Califia began to escape his parents and was involved in women’s liberation movement and anti-war protests. After becoming involved in the consciousness-raising movement in the region He moved from the area to San Francisco in 1973, with a keen interest in sex education and working for the San Francisco Sex Information switchboard. After making the move into San Francisco he began writing for the magazine and also became a member of a lesbian separatist group. In 1975, he advocated against sadomasochism, and was subsequently exiled from the feminist lesbian community. He was not just excluded from his family due to being lesbian but also his gay friends when he spoke his views. Califia was increasingly engaged in S/M activities, not just with lesbians, but also gay males. He founded the very first gay group of lesbians in the BDSM organization located in the United States, Samois, in 1978.

Patrick Califia Net Worth

Patrick Califia is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Patrick Califia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Patrick Califia (born Pat Califia 1954, also called by the name California- Rice) is an American writer of non-fiction articles on sexuality as well as of poems and erotic fiction. Califia is bisexual transman. Prior to his transition his identity, he was lesbian and, as the result, wrote for a number of years a sex-related advice column for gay men’s journal, the leather Drummer. His writings focus on gender identity and sexuality and have included lesbian-themed sexuality and work on BDSM subcultures. Califia is part of the movement known as the third wave.

Califia California is “one of [the] earliest champions of lesbian sadomasochistic sex” who’s “work has been taught on college campuses across the country and abroad.” The man has an extensive track record of transgressions, identifying himself as a lesbian, feminist and transgender, while sometimes encountering rejection from the respective community “for various infractions.” He was a part of what some described as to be a “notable role” in the Feminist Sex Wars of the 1970s and 1980s. The parties were defined by anti-porn feminists and feminists who were sex-positive, and had differences on sexuality, pornography and other kinds of sexual representations and prostitution, the place of trans women within the lesbian community as well as lesbian sexual practices, sadomasochism, as well as various other issues related to sexuality. Califia rejected the “essentialist, feminist ideology – that women are better, more nurturing, more peaceful, more loving, more relationship-oriented and less raunchy in bed,” instead advocating for BDSM, “the consensual integration of power, pain, domination and submission into sex.” As per The San Francisco Chronicle, many feminists were influenced by Califia’s views about S/M not through her arguments but by his erotic stories: “they read Califia-Rice’s S/M fantasies, got turned on and got over it.”

Califia co-founded Samois, a lesbian-feminist BDSM organization based in San Francisco that existed from 1978 to 1983, and shifted his focus to the lesbian experience of BDSM. The Samois Collective produced, with Califia’s contributions, the book, Coming to Power, published by Alyson Publications. Coming To Power, according to editor in chief Heather Findlay of lesbian magazine Girlfriends, was “one of the most transformative lesbian books, [foretelling] the end of a certain puritanism that had dominated the community. It was the first articulate defense of lesbian S/M, and that was the end of it.” Another book, the Lesbian S/M Safety Manual, won the 1990 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year.

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In 1999, Califia decided to begin hormone replacement therapy as a part of his transition. Califia had considered sex reassignment in his twenties, but had been hesitant, for one reason, because there were many dangers to the surgery at that time. He also hesitated because his career had been built around a reputation as a lesbian writer and activist. Califia had entered age-related perimenopause when he began his transition. He has stated that being a man or a woman was never a good fit for him but sex reassignment seemed to be the most reasonable option.

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Patrick Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Patrick Califia celebrates birthday on March 8 of every year.

Califia believed in the Mormon religion, and there were elements of Mormonism in his approach to life. One primary tenet of Mormonism Califia tended to follow was, “if the truth has been revealed to you and you don’t speak out, you are culpable for any wrongs that are committed in those realms of life.” Califia’s sense of difference began when he was a child. He had dreams of becoming a train engineer which his parents shot down because he was born female. He started transitioning in 1999.