Transvestia

was a matron and a janitor at the door letting women in one at a time as one came out. Finally 2 men with a door came up and after waiting for a couple of women to come out they took the door and went in. One of the women ahead of me said, "Why can't we go in?" The janitor said, "Because there are two men in there". The lady replied, "We don't care, let us in!" So the janitor shrugged his shoulders and stood aside while about 15 of us went in. It was a four booth convenience and one of the doors was off. Women lined up in front of the other three and came and went, washed, fixed face and hair etc. like no- thing was unusual while these two men were trying to rehang the door. Even women who came in not know- ing that the men were there accepted the situation and nobody got excited or even made any cracks about it. Which only goes to show that all the excitement about a man in dresses getting into the ladies room is a lot of imagination. These two guys were there in overalls working and none of the women seemed in the least disturbed. Of course they were in privacy in their own cubical. In Europe this would mean no- thing as the two rooms are frequently adjoining or open into each other, but Americans get so shook up about such things.

I got a chance to meet the Montreal members of FPE and we put together a meeting at the home of a friend of one of them. There were 7 of us and 3 GGs so we had a pleasant evening launching a Montreal chapter of the organization which will now be able to carry on alone as there are 3 more members who were unable to be there.

Thanks to Patricia I got on CBC-TV for a 10 min- ute spot which was certainly not enough to get into the subject but at least it aired it and I can only hope that some of our locked door sisters saw it and will come out and be counted.

Well at the end of our Montreal trip my GG fri- end drove to N.Y. with one of the group and I went

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