RANSVESTIA

To get all these details in chronological order I have had to go back and read my past Virgin Views editorials in past issues—a most fascinating experience incidentally, to now, as a reader, see how concepts and events developed. It is much like reading someone else's biography. I observed that the half way point of this magazine-issues 50, 51 and 52 reported on just about the high point of a lot of my efforts for the cause-visits to the New York, Boston, Cleveland and Massachusetts state police departments, attending and speaking out at the the American Psychiatric Association Convention, giving the Allen Burke show in New York which was the best interview I ever had and which was syndicated all over the country, visiting about 18 cities and meeting with FPs in all of them and FPE groups in a dozen of them, all important efforts.

It is not that it has all been downhill since then, because it certainly hasn't been, but that year was the one in which the most happened, for me, for the whole sub-culture and for the impact I could have on the outside world for the benefit of all of us. It's just an interesting note that it was all reported in those mid point issues, half way between No. 1 and this one, No. 100.

Well, after establishing myself officially as Virginia in June of 1968, I decided to take a trip to Alaska that fall which I did with a stop over in Seattle to visit with the FPE group there. It was all very interesting but there were a couple of highlights to the trip. The first one occurred in Nome, Alaska, where it turned out there were not enough single rooms in the little hotel. So I had gotten my key without knowing this, gone to my room and was getting cleaned up for dinner when there was a knock on the door and one of the other women on the trip whom I had sat with on a couple of bus trips and plane flights came into the room. She explained that due to the shortage she was assigned in with me. That was something of an unexpected surprise but I had no recourse but to make it as normal as possible. Thank heaven I was wearing my own hair by this time since taking off my wig to go to bed would have been disastrous. But, I stood by the dresser and put my hair up for the night just as she did and everything was "Cool" -Particularly in Nome, Alaska. The trip also involved going to Fair- banks and by bus to Whitehorse for three days. Would you believe I got elected song leader and had to stand in the front of the bus and lead the gang in songs-me and my lyric soprano????

We had a train trip from Whitehorse to Skagway and then boarded

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