Its Bigger Than You Think...!

Yes, the scope of Chevalier's activity is bigger than you think. Bigger than I thought it would be too when I started it. I was pleased when the first letters came in from Canada, but I thought that was after all not unexpected being neighbors. But when I heard from Fiona in Australia, Rosemary in Hong Kong, Paula in England I thought we had really arrived. Since then many more inquiries have come in from many foreign lands. I thought a montage of the envelopes from these countries might be rather interesting. Since we go to smaller pages next issue I had to present it in this issue where they could still be seen to good advantage. We have heard from the following countries so far and I hope many more in the future:

21.

New Zealand

11.

Germany

1.

Argentina

22.

12.

Holland

2.

Australia

23.

Pakistan

Phillipines

13.

Hong Kong

3.

Brazil

24.

Rhodesia and

14.

India

4.

Canada

Nyasaland

15.

Ireland

5.

Columbia

25.

St. Lucia

16.

Israel

6.

Costa Rica

26.

Sweden

17.

Japan

27.

Switzerland

1.

Cuba

18. Latvia

8.

Denmark

28.

Turkey

19.

Malaya

9.

England

29.

Venzuela

20.

Mexico

10.

France

Personally I am very proud of this kind of coverage in just three years of publication with very little advertising. I think all of you should be too, that at last there is some means of banding together all those who know and understand the delights and satisfactions of portraying an inner self. It should be of particular added comfort for those who have so long thought that they were isolated members of a very unique little group in their own country. Now they can re- joice in knowing that the phenomenon is not just seen in America or England, but all over the world, in all kinds of cultures and under all kinds of conditions. This ubiquity is a measure too of the fact that motivations involved in Femme Personation are not just found in one culture or environment but are to be found under all kinds of social circumstances.

I am sure all the world's countries not included in

the list above could provide recruits for our sisterhood if only our word could spread that far. I hope any of you both in America and foreign lands who receive TRANSVESTIA will spread the word further to those in your own countries and in neighboring ones.