OBSERVATIONS

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE LATELY

by Virginia

Most of you spent many years in a limbo of doubt about yourselves what you were and what you weren't and with a great feeling of loneliness and a need to share. Some FPs work their way out this mor- ass by themselves but for many more the finding of TVia and through it the knowledge that you weren't alone, you weren't homosexual and you weren't sick, was the beginning of self acceptance. I have many letters of appreciation for the help that my efforts have been to many of you. I'm glad you have appreciated them and I'm human enough to feel nice when you tell me so. But for everyone that does I can't help thinking that there are 10 more out "there" still in that same limbo.

Unhappily most human beings are centered on themselves their wants, their needs, and their accomplishments. Unfortunately too many of those who have achieved self acceptance forget both what it was like to be alone and that there are great numbers who still are. While I like your letters of appreciation, I'd like it still more if you wuld apply that appreciation to the job of finding those who are still in limbo - where you probably were not too long ago. Please do your share in helping them. How, you ask? Well there are 7 ways suggested below and if you put your mind to it you could doubtless think of others. See if you can't make a New Years resolution to help those behind you. Since you no more than I can't just go out and find them, the magazine or my appearance on radio and TV are about the only way we can let them "discover" us. So if you can help in one or more of these ways, please plan to do so.

1. The pamphlet, "Introduction to Transvestism" is available at cost from Chevalier (10c ea.) Any of you can afford a couple of dollars worth of them and the necessary postage to mail them out to doctors, lawyers, ministers, police officials, judges, marriage counsellors, news-

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