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a Hungarian lady and her husband. They are wonderful people and enjoy having a group of TV's coming into their place for pizza. We've been there three times altogether (all dressed of course) and it has been a fabulous experience for those TV's who had never, but never, been out in public. Right, Elaine? The reaction from the rest of the people at the place? Zero. I'm sure a good many of the bar customers read us as soon as we walked in, but the beauty of the whole scene was that it didn't make one whiff of difference either to them or to us. All they could see is that we were having a wonderful time. In a funny sort of way it is nice to be read so that you can show the on-lookers that we are having a ball in a discreet, non-scandalous, lady-like way. Quite different from the popular image of the screaming drag queen. It is indeed a pleasure to see TV's "loosening up". It is a form of magic to observe how the nervousness and tension slowly fade away as the relization makes itself felt: I am in a restaurant, I am sitting at this table..the waiter is serving me and he treats me as a human being, better still, as a girl...No guilt, no shame, no fear..... psychiatrists: take note! The beauty of the entire ex- perience is that the lady who owns the place knows that we are TRANSVESTITES and she goes out of her way to make us feel at home. She and her husband, and later the bartender, come to our table and sit with us..the juke box is playing some Greek music and our hostess invites us to try that type of folk dancing...and we get up and hold hands, and form a circle and we dance...a couple of the customers at the bar are curious and approach our circle... five minutes later they, too, are part of the dance group....As when the clock strikes 3 AM..we depart....the place is closing....and we wish we could have stayed there for hours and hours...but there's always another time, another week-end... Did we make a good impression? We feel we did, otherwise our hostess would not have reiterated her warm invitation for us to return. She and her husband even walked with us to our car. The important thing here was that we behaved in accordance with the image we should always keep in mind when dressed in front of other people.

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