RANSVESTIA

needs to be one publication for the heterosexual cross dresser that is dignified, clean, and educational as well as entertaining. Don't get me wrong, I'm not prudish and I'm not against sex in any form that two consenting people want it, but I have always been dedicated to the idea that the public doesn't know or understand us and that efforts must be made to acquaint them with the subject. When this is done or attempted to be done in publications that cater to and provide for a lot of other points of view or which present the subject in a "sexy" way it only serves to perpetuate the ignorance and antagonism that we have all had to deal with for so long.

So if you agree with these points of view and want to see TVia continue please support it and urge any new sisters that you happen to meet to subscribe to it.

III. BACK IN THE GROOVE: I believe that I sent out a note to all of you with Issue #85 apologizing for the extremely long hiatus between #84 and #85. I had prepared #85 and #86 completely and left them with my former printer with instructions to get them ready for an Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 mailing. In spite of numerous letters from abroad he had done absolutely nothing by the time I got back in Sept. So I had to dig him continuously to get #85_out_in_late November. I changed printers and we finally got #86 out in February. Due to the first printer's failure I was out of almost all of the separate stories so that they all had to be reprinted too which further slowed things down. So now finally here is #87 put together in February. I'm very sorry for the foul-up.

IV. POSTAL HELP: Please don't overlook adding the 10% to your order for shipping costs. This does not, in most cases, pay all the cost but it cuts it back to a bearable percentage about where it used to be in the good old days.

V. MATERIAL: I am very aware that you would like and I would like to produce some new long separate stories. There have been two problems; lack of money to do so and lack of good material to print. I can't ask you for the former except in the way of subscriptions, but good material we always need. I don't have any more than just enough to make up #88 so if you want to see TVia continue you've got to come up with something to fill it. Let's have some interesting true experiences like Beverly's "Unforgettable Experience" in this issue and some commentary articles, and some good histories, and