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boys, so I went and sat at a small table with him. He was fun to talk to and he played all my favorite songs on the juke box, and I was getting a big kick out of his attentions to me. At midnight I had to go home and he walked with me.

"And then I realized that he really thought I was a girl because he tried to kiss me. I was scared and didn't know what to do so I said, "I'm a boy, honest I am". And he got so mad I thought he was going to hit me.

No one can know how many times similar incidents took place with other TVs, or how many allowed the kiss only to create an even stronger resentment among the disillusioned admirers.

Whether many or few, such experiences led the military auth- orities to cause the Honolulu City Council to pass a law against males dressing to deceive and, shortly after, to place the two gay bars off limits to servicemen.

This was several years ago and since then some of the bolder ones have ignored the ordinance and kept on allowing themselves to be picked up. Eventually a few were arrested by the vice squad and hauled before a judge. One city magistrate set the pattern which now holds true for all TVs who might be arrested on a com- plaint of dressing to deceive.

On a first offense, the boy got a warning, plus the advice to wear a sign - "I Am A Boy” -- when he went out in public in drag. A second offense draws a term of up to 90 days in jail.

Most of the TVs, many of whom are not deceivers, wear the sign anyway, so as not to antagonize the men of the vice squad, who check the places regularly. They must feel that discretion is the better part of valor.

Legally, there is nothing to prevent a TV from being in public dressed, and there is no law that says a TV must wear a sign. How- ever, the older ones, such as myself, who like to attend a movie in

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