Transvestia

My wig was parked on top of a vase on the bureau and my clothes were scattered around where I'd dropped them in my haste to get to bed. It must have been a strange sight when I liften my unladylike head from the pillow but nothing was said either at the time nor later when I called the bellboy for the bags and went to the desk to check out. I expect they just felt sorry for the poor lady who had such short hair that she had to wear a wig.

Anyway after my 3 hours sleep I got to the air- port for a 4 AM flight to Kansas City and Chicago. This flight was late too, so I didn't have much time to lie down to rest at Gisele's house before her brother Gus came home to take me to the radio station for the TV taping session. This was held at 11:30 AM and was the reason for my having to get to Chicago earlier than the train. It was the Irv Kupsinet show, a rather well known one in the Chicago area. I wasn't the only guest nor was TV the only subject. I shared billing with Dr. Gebhard of the Inst. of Sex Research in Bloomington, Ind., with Dr. Wright author of "Black Power" and with a psychiatrist. This was very good public relations for our cause because I wasn't on the program as an oddball to be dissected but as someone with something to say and was billed as the author of "The Transvestite and His Wife". Thus while we were discussing the book "Black Power" I had some comments to make and made them, which put me in the position of an intelli- gent person with something to say. I mention this not out of personal bragging but to indicate that for the first time over the air a TV was treated as the intellectual equal of other persons with some stature and not as a sort of curiosity to be taken apart.

One very funny thing happened on the show, how- ever. The psychiatrist had something to say about everything that was brought up and on several occa- sions interrupted my replies to questions to give his own views, thus stealing some of my all too

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