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mean just enjoying your pretty things, but doing some pretty heavy introspective and honest thinking about yourself and what made you this way. This thinking can be aided and speeded by comparing notes with others, and that is where TVia comes in. But those others need you as well as you need them, so it is my sincere hope that by providing the medium of communication through this publication that many of you can come to enjoy your transvestic longings not lonesomely in the garage, a motel room, or the attic when every- body else is away; and not guiltily, fearfully and shamefully, but more openly and with a personal aware- ness that such longin s are not signs of insanity, perversion or even sexual abnormality. This form of behavior may be socially unacceptable in this cultur- al period, but it is really a way of expressing feel- ings that reside in a great many males but of which they may be unaware.

This social unacceptability is gradually moder ating towards a "live and let live" philosophy and we can help it along if we will. Many of you are aware of the existance of the magazines ONE and MATTACHINE REVIEW Could these have been published and sent through the mails 20 years ago? These publications are giving expression and dignity and gradually great- er acceptance to the homosexual in our society. Could be that if all TVs came to realize it, that TRANSVESTIA could do the same for us. How about it?

A masculine fellow named Clyde Revealing his feminine side,

Said, "On high heels and dress y views I express

In TRANSVESTIA--its my "TV GUIDE"

Georgia