RANSVESTIA

Did I tell you that I am a minister? Lately I've thought that God is a woman and we ought to worship Her dressed like women. Men are a mistake. I'll close now and cry. I do it a lot.

Love, Merrilee

Editor's Note: Letters like the above (which was sent anonymously so I have no idea what the outcome of his desperate crisis was) make me mad. Not at the letter writer but at wives like his. Why do wives think that they have a right to impose their values on their husbands? Tonight I got a call from an FP that I haven't heard from for about six years. He gave up his femme self and tried desperately to forget her and go along with his wife's feeling. It didn't work and he called me to say that finally they had decided to separate and he wants to get back into the swing of FP doings. Yesterday, I had a visit from an old friend who had met one of the models at DREAM-met her as the femmeself for three days before she ever saw the man underneath. Now they are a most happy couple and the GG says she considers herself to be a very lucky woman to have a lover and a best girlfriend in the same person. Practically the same expression used by the writer of one of the other letters in this section. What a shame that there are so many women who marry a reputation, a position, potential, financial security, handsomeness, that can be shown off to other women (look what I caught), clothing, intelligence, wittiness, athletic body or some other characteristic and not the underlying human being who is the same individual regardless of clothing, financial disaster or illness or disability. They miss so much because their relationship is so superficial. They cause so much pain for them- selves and others.

ME? PECULIAR!!?

WHY do some fellows dress as girls!?

I think they're quite absurd.

I wear a dress and all the rest. But I'm a different bird.

I just wear pretty dresses, gowns

(And not because I'm odd)

Why? 'Cause I'm a guy who looks her best

Feels best when dressed, by God!

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-Lil