This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993, with a revised introduction by Goldin and, for the first time, the voices of those whose stories are represented. Released at a time when the discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving, The Other Side traces some of the history that informs this new visibility. The first photographs are from the 1970s, when Goldin lived in Boston with a group of drag queens and documented their glamour and vulnerability. In the early eighties she chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York as AIDS began to decimate her community. In the nineties she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin, Bangkok and the Philippines, photographing public personas while showing real lives backstage.