# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-califia
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:46:39.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-califia"
name: "Patrick Califia"
slug: "patrick-califia"
description: "Patrick Califia, formerly also known as Pat Califia and by the last name Califia-Rice, is an American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual trans man. Prior to transitioning, Califia was a lesbian and wrote for many years a sex advice column for the gay men's leather magazine Drummer. His writings explore sexuality and gender identity, and have included lesbian erotica and works about BDSM subculture. Califia is a member of the third-wave feminism movement."
tagline: "American sex and gender writer"
gender: "trans man"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.52
  momentum:             4.717770155619673
  historical:           7.298388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PatrickCalifia"
    handle:    "PatrickCalifia"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia"
    title: "Patrick Califia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia"
    title: "Patrick Califia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia"
    title: "Patrick Califia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia"
    title: "Patrick Califia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia"
    title: "Patrick Califia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia"
    title: "Patrick Califia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia"
    title: "Patrick Califia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia"
    title: "Patrick Califia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330072"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump