not aimed at obliterating other publications in the field--"aimed as it is toward emphasizing the positive values in transvestism--". Intentional or not the im- plication is there that this will be a new and different approach to the subject. I invite those of you who have followed TVia since its early days to think back (or better still go back and read) over the Virgin Views editorials as they appeared. I think you will find a certain chain of continuity running through them; at- tempting to slowly bring the reader out from behind his locked door into the sunlight; helping him to get used to himself and the idea that he was not alone, not shameful, not immoral and that he should hold his head up, accept himself, recognize his feminine self and make a place for her in his life etc. I refer you fur- ther to my editorial in the last issue, No. 20 entitled "After Acceptance What?" Here is the final emergence of the "positive values" the goal to be aimed for and, hopefully, finally achieved. Now, just when we have climbed these painful stairs to the point where we can get a good view of these positive values, we are to be treated to a whole "new" approach by those behind this new magazine, many of whom (I intentionally didn't say all) have acquired a good part of their present perspective by having climbed those very stairs with the rest of us and by the same means. It is only too human to forget the hardships and even the route of a difficult journey in the pleasure and satisfaction of ar- riving at our destination.

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Finally, I cannot help but express a certain sense of regret about the appearance of TURNABOUT. I do not do this with any antagonism which I hope the Edit- or of TURN ABOUT will recognize as well as the rest of you who read these lines. I am sure that it will be immediately assumed, by those whose sights are on the material and whose measurements are mercenary, that Virginia is piqued because she fears a loss of revenue as a result of "competition". This is not my motive as I do not expect there will be any less of revenue. TRANSVESTIA grows everyday and will continue to do so with or without competition. No, my reason is not material--it can more properly be termed psycho-social. When TRANSVESTIA began there appeared for the first time in history (with the exception of its short-lived..

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