you take me out.” About this time I imagine my chin must have been stepped on as it was dragging the floor. I grabbed the opportunity and said it might be a good idea if he would help me with some more pic- tures I'd like to take for a magazine. Said it would be easier to come up with ideas including two girls than one. He said okay, any time I was ready. We set the date for Sunday and that was that.

On Friday this guy came over with an armload of dresses for a dress rehearsal so that my wife and I could give him some pointers on realism. He put on one of the dresses, shaved his legs, put on make- up and a wig hat that my wife and I styled into a fairly decent hairdo, donned nylons and high heels; and there was Brigitte Anne. Then, just when things were getting interesting, he remembered he had to see someone about a hunting date the next morning. So he borrowed my fur-trimmed coat and tripped out to see about it.

Now let me say word here about this guy. In the first place he is not a TV. In the second place it seems a waste of talent that he is not. He is studying music and wants to be a professional musician and has no TV desires. But he has a lack of self-consciousness that all of us should envy. He didn't hesitate to go out in public in femmidress and I think this is one of the things that has given me confidence.

Well, anyway, I asked him if he'd mind my sending the pictures to this magazine. He said not at all. In fact that was the idea. Then he asked what magazine it was. So I showed him and told him all about what TVism means. Here again Transvestia proved invaluable as an aid in telling someone else. We talked for about an hour about the subject and related topics and it came out that the one thing people could not seem to take was homosexuality. And that was because the homosexual does not bother to explain why he is "that way.” But be- cause I was willing to take the time to explain and answer questions I was accepted immediately. Not only that but this guy had adopted my wife and I as sister and brother before I told him. After I told him he said if I'd like he'd come over and dress to keep me company when he had the chance. We are waiting now for the weather to get warm so we can take some pictures on the beach in bathing suits. That will be a story in itself.

An interesting sidelight to this whole thing came at our little tete-a- tete. We have a standing pact that whatever we say in confidence is confidential. But I told my part-time sister that it was off in this in- stance. I told him, since he knows so many more people than I do, to

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