Transvestia

which I have renamed, "Miami of the Pacific". It's a place to see once to say you've been there, but it is far too "touristy" and not really very Hawaiian. Hauai or Kona is the place to go to really rest and enjoy the islands.

Finally I got back to Honolulu where I was met by Cathy, one of our Hawaiian sister, although she had to send her brother to do the honors. But he, being an understanding brother brought me a beautiful carnation loi. I was thrilled. He had me to his house for dinner and the next day drove me around the far side of the island of Oahu. In the evening we visited the famous (?) Yappy's bar to which the gay queens go in their drag. This is O. K. with the police as long as they wear a small sign on their dresses saying, "I am a Boy". I can't imagine a real TV being caught dead with such a sign on his femmeself.

I called, made an appointment and went down for an hours chat with the Lieutenant in charge of the Honolulu Police Vice Detail: I gave him a thumb nail sketch of TVism, answered interested questions and gave him a half dozen of the lecture leaflets which he said he would pass around. He particularly spoke of giving one to the training instructor. So I hope

all Honolulu Police from now on treat TVs with some understanding. They seem to be pretty reasonable. The basis for the "Boy" signs on the queens is that the law prohibits cross dressing with intent to deceive, it being understood that the deception is for some illicit purpose. If you are just walking down the street and minding your own business they don't seem to care whether you are in a Muu Muu or a tuxedo.

So all in all I think my trip was very worthwhile not only for me personally but for the cause in general. I am sure that there are a number of psychiatrists who are much better aware of what TVism is and that one can be a lady even tho one may be a male, than they ever were before. I think having a real; live, walking, talking TV in the group that they kept see- ing day after day naturally brought about an uninten- tional state of acceptance on their part simply because there was no ostentatious exhibitionsim, "camping",