just as social beings that they want to copy them and be like them in a non-sexual way. Feminine clothing helps them do so.”

"Fear of society's antagonistic attitude toward the homosexual, com- bined with its ignorance of the existance of and nature of true trans- vestism, makes these men afraid that social condemnation, loss of wife, friends, position and reputation would be their lot if their feminine interests were discovered. That is what leads to the secrecy. It is also the reason why so many of them whose wives are just as ignorant of the true nature of the phenomenon as you are, and who are just as likely to call them 'perverts', 'queers', 'fairies', etc. just as you did, have to wait until they can sneak away on a trip or until their wives are out of the house before they can open up and express themselves. On top of that," I went on, "most of them think that they are alone in the world in having this strange yearning. They can't find out much about themselves from any books in the library and most of them don't know that there are thousands of men who feel the same strange need to express their feminine side. That is, they couldn't find out much about people like themselves until a magazine called TRANSVESTIA began to be published out in California about ten years ago. It was published BY a transvestite for other transvestites. It was the first attempt made to help these people know that they were not alone, that they were not necessarily homo- sexual just because they like feminine things, and that they should learn to accept themselves for what they were and not live under such a per- petual cloud of guilt and fear."

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"You mean there is a magazine just for people like this guy in your story," Tom asked in surprise. "Who publishes it and where can you get it? I think I'd like to read up on the whole bit. It's pretty different and enlightening to find out that there are guys who don't go for boys and who still like feminine things. It ought to be interesting to see what they have to say. You still didn't tell me what makes them do it though.' Tom's natural curiosity was now aroused I could see, and I resolved to see what I could do to bring about a change in attitude in him. Besides it would give me some guide posts for the further development of my article. “I can understand the loneliness, the secrecy and the fear, but I still don't understand what they get out of it and why they do it."

"Wait a minute, one question at a time," I stopped him. "As to the magazine TRANSVESTIA, it is published by Chevalier Publications and their address is Box 36091, Los Angeles, California 90036, and I expect they'll send you some dope on it if you ask them. Incidentally you might be interested in where that name Chevalier came from. It was

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