RANSVESTIA

Finally, just to make your toes curl up, how about this—some years ago Benjamin Britten composed an all-masculine-character vocal work for the famous Vienna Boys Choir. It was called The Golden Vanity and it only had male characters so that, unlike in other such works which the Choir performs, the boys would not have to dress as girls.

How awful—

Not the having to dress as girls—

The not wanting to.

A PICTURE ISSUE???

It has been quite a while since we had a picture issue. There are always a lot of you interested in that. Therefore this is a call for the submission of pictures for a last picture issue-probably #95 or 96, if enough of you respond soon enough. But don't delay in sending the photos in as it takes quite awhile to sort them out, mount them, get them screen photographed and pasted-up for the printer. Please send in TWO of your best pictures, preferably in two different costumes and two different backgrounds for variety sake.

Although color shots can be used if the contrast is good, it is pre- ferable to have black and white pictures. If all you have is color shots then be sure that you don't wear a red dress against a dark back- ground (or vice versa). Red is black to the camera so that it will be black against black and you will "disappear."

So go through your photo shots today and send them in. You can submit more than two if you want and I'll select the best two for this issue and the others can be available for other issues. But, DO IT and SOON, so I'll have enough time to organize them properly. And be sure to write your femme name and state or code number if you have one on the back so that I'll know whom to credit them to.

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