RANSVESTIA

readers. But at the moment I have just about enough for one more issue almost entirely fiction and when that is gone if no more material comes in I have two choices, reprint interesting stories or articles that have appeared in old issues of the magazine or - dis- continue publication! It's as simple as that. So what can you do in this area? Well, all of you have opinions about things, most of you have had some interesting, amusing, frightening or devastating ex- periences connected with your cross dressing which would be in- teresting, educational, helpful or a timely warning to others, if they were printed. Some of you can write some interesting fictional stories we have had some really good stories in the past and some of those authors are still among our readers but haven't contributed much lately. Some of you that have never tried your hand at writing before might find it an interesting and educational experience to do it. Some of you have discovered little tricks of one kind or another in regard to the conversion to your girl self, which would be useful to others. In short all of you who read the magazine are potential con- tributors to it. If you don't contribute, who will? Nobody and soon you will be getting the last issue to be published. Transvestia was the first, is the oldest, and, in my humble opinion, the best for the particular group it is published for. I have never published it as a money making venture — though naturally, it has to pay its own way - and that is why I've always kept it clean and dignified and limited its content to material dealing simply with straight cross dressing - leaving out the pornographic, fetishistic, masochistic, and punish- ment elements. Other publications have been willing to print articles, pictures and advertisements for almost every kind of kink. That's fine with me, I don't put them down for that because there is a big market out there for all of those persuasions. I know a lot about simple cross- dressing and I can write about it, relate to it and to its practitioners and be both helpful and educational to them. But I don't know any- thing about the gay experience, rubber or leather fetishists, bondage, punishment, humiliation, etc. and I therefore don't feel competent to deal with them nor am I interested in doing so. I know that there are a great number of people who have similiar feelings and appreciate my efforts to limit TVia in this way. But what I'm saying now is that if you don't come through with more articles, true experiences, letters, commentaries, book reviews, poems, fiction or whatever, TVia will go down the tubes. So it's essentially your magazine, I only assemble and publish it. If you like to read what other people have contributed, remember that they would like to read your contributions too. So how about it?