tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33724320815626430742024-03-19T04:47:50.637-04:00FemulateThe Transvestia of the InternetStanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.comBlogger6031125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-88728424474119526232024-03-19T00:00:00.036-04:002024-03-19T00:00:00.149-04:00Follow the Leader<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWGqjvOsyXdk6b72tgskA7u_7brX73Ctcox2sR-W-_2YDiSj_BanPvvs2S6DmA58MyREoHK1lMg4aGuSd8hlcMVZ0h2fZLZBHLl0q6Rmh33PRn8sNxu-m-4cMm9upCD_0iP_-ZXLk-gPlfyHPIHaVjT4v-Bd-S-xHsr95yabN_s6XuVbLRX2cmet0xkod/s702/diversify1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWGqjvOsyXdk6b72tgskA7u_7brX73Ctcox2sR-W-_2YDiSj_BanPvvs2S6DmA58MyREoHK1lMg4aGuSd8hlcMVZ0h2fZLZBHLl0q6Rmh33PRn8sNxu-m-4cMm9upCD_0iP_-ZXLk-gPlfyHPIHaVjT4v-Bd-S-xHsr95yabN_s6XuVbLRX2cmet0xkod/s16000/diversify1.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Tad Hilgenbrink" border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGafscrMWXzKT4qpWz2GNk8Uf5bZDsZjk-doyFFiF41afwFx9-aqHeMtBo8UEd1Ll9MLu_GcGb1rVJHfMhhzAGhIi2IxRSi5yoKzNMTQHptf78OC3XZBqF9YGIgMoW1KsU9q_cOOmfNOxO2uVxiPL-eWkKi-pTy1nlv7azoi-bQWDnwHF-E3Ir2nkhx0xE/s16000/Tad-Hilgenbrink---Curiosity-of-Chance---film-USA---2008-2.jpg" title="Tad Hilgenbrink femulating in the 2006 film The Curiosity of Chance" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tad Hilgenbrink femulating in the 2006 film The Curiosity of Chance.<br />Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_NYDR9Qzs&t=4s" target="_blank">here</a> to view the film on YouTube.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-37412201175910517612024-03-18T00:00:00.089-04:002024-03-18T08:42:34.461-04:00Gloria Mardi Gras, Blackpool<p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDqyO2dnkb0hfdBVlCLWRxjYqSxIZ-iOVHdyGdF3sGr_qpbpVP8LC4kdVVvbp6vJXm93S1IdO3kZ_ziE-jhGAcnEo-vTbPMrGzslOQZRJ-aLPhreOW53nNteVdnXgEMe2XKWmuUNPPOSZQq0f6EqZGVtnIcW6Tk5UNaFVcHKGybkt7ErD0iOsmvtEiwS8/s960/IMG_0012.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDqyO2dnkb0hfdBVlCLWRxjYqSxIZ-iOVHdyGdF3sGr_qpbpVP8LC4kdVVvbp6vJXm93S1IdO3kZ_ziE-jhGAcnEo-vTbPMrGzslOQZRJ-aLPhreOW53nNteVdnXgEMe2XKWmuUNPPOSZQq0f6EqZGVtnIcW6Tk5UNaFVcHKGybkt7ErD0iOsmvtEiwS8/w327-h580/IMG_0012.JPG" width="327" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gloria, in blue</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">By Gloria</span></b><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Before I proceed, I would like to proclaim that I deem myself a transvestite or TV, for short, the classic, original epithet being more to my liking than crossdresser or CD, for short. More modern terminology would describe my very early leanings as nuclear. I simply think of my undoubted feminine side as nature’s trick.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Resident in Blackpool, in what is described, rightly or wrongly, as the Gay Capital Of The North, my TV life hitherto had always been confined either to my own four walls or a safe, controlled environment and Gloria’s very existence known only to a handful of people. However, I had long strained at the leash for a public stage of some sort and it came to pass in late middle age, that I finally procured the position of resident TV at Mardi Gras Hotel on Lord Street in the heart of the Gay Village. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Up to that stage, I had never been on the gay scene, nor am I on it now, the wheel having turned full circle. However, for the tenure of my role at the hotel, the said scene became <i>de rigeur</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And so it came to pass that from the summer of 2009 until the summer of 2018, when the place was put on the market, Gloria was an integral and regular member of staff. She brought business in and she brought it back. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mardi Gras was a double-fronted, gay-owned, but straight-friendly establishment. The mix of gays and straights was probably 50/50. Nothing untoward of a sexual nature took place while I was there – mainly Saturday afternoon into the early evening and the occasional Friday and/or Sunday. It wasn’t that sort of a business. It was simply good, clean fun all the way. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The owners took me on initially as meeter and greeter and the adrenalin of going to the front door never left me, especially to welcome first-time visitors, to whom I was a novelty. </span><span>Much to the delight of both myself and the owners, Gloria’s popularity took off and meet and greet soon blossomed into social hostess.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There was a good-sized and well-stocked bar, lounge and small dance-floor, complete with disco equipment and flashing lights. The owners wanted me to keep the punters in the bar and though I say it myself, I reckon I was pretty good at it or I wouldn’t have lasted so long! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A year or so in, the lads were offered another, smaller hotel a hundred yards or so along the street on a five-year lease. Formerly known as Northern Star, it became Mardi Gras 2. Business was certainly booming and though Mardi Gras 1 was to remain favorite for me, I operated at No. 2 when required. So there was some tripping about to do, involving crossing a busy junction. I stopped the traffic on more than one occasion to mince across!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was primarily <i>in situ</i> for the straight people. While there are exceptions to every rule, the gays male and female took little notice of me. Besides this genre, we took in as guests parties of women, whether hens or those just out for a fun time, and mature couples, but no stags or minors. In my everyday life, I was expected to look professional and smart and for Gloria, it was exactly the same, fulfilling as she was a PR role for the hotel. I invariably wore a dress, brightly-colored or floral, never leggings and very occasionally, a pink leather skirt and top. My outfits and wigs were rotated, but my makeup style and routine never altered.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The owners installed me on Facebook as Gloria Mardi Gras and when photos were taken, I exhorted the guests to post them thereon. Countless images were indeed produced and though the site is now deleted as of no further use, I downloaded most of the better ones to take me back to the days when the going was good. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As with many TVs, my everyday life as a man was largely kept separate, only the long-established regulars were allowed into my inner sanctum to observe the other half of my body. One such couple, man and wife, remarked tentatively one day that they were of the opinion that I looked better in a frock than I did as a fella and asked, was I insulted? Certainly not, I regarded this as a compliment. To me it meant I was doing my job to the best of my ability. There were times, privately, when I thought this myself.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I began at Mardi Gras, the owners were three years into a ten-year plan, after which they intended to open a bar of the same name in Gran Canaria and this they have done. I shall be eternally grateful to them for giving me the opportunity to both exercise, and exorcise, this part of my personality. I have been there and done it, a little late in life perhaps, and have got, if not the T-shirt, but the frock! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The new owners did not invite me back and indeed are running the establishment in a different way, so I do not consider that I am missing anything. I often walk past the place now with a complete air of detachment, incognito and unrecognized by the punters on the terrace.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy days, I look back on it with pride and the satisfaction of a job well done for the benefit of all concerned. Though the years may disappear, now going on six, the memories certainly do not. And I still have the photos to remind me of who I once was: Gloria Mardi Gras, Blackpool! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja_7KQmA94MYOioIp5CnC0Kwokt_isk9IeGbZk4cGQ_2sCKDlUFVkAJmkQxyrtAWT2MFjPG28MMS6qHqa9RRaRdA1v3gvnkpf8YtEUaIydUUivy9mm5oGrtbyCtbO91W1_lYQk5q0LoOJukk_n3NL38WgqM7X576RuRZ2Oh3Kp0tD10z_Z1Z41g1Kc5bdi/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja_7KQmA94MYOioIp5CnC0Kwokt_isk9IeGbZk4cGQ_2sCKDlUFVkAJmkQxyrtAWT2MFjPG28MMS6qHqa9RRaRdA1v3gvnkpf8YtEUaIydUUivy9mm5oGrtbyCtbO91W1_lYQk5q0LoOJukk_n3NL38WgqM7X576RuRZ2Oh3Kp0tD10z_Z1Z41g1Kc5bdi/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Jim Bailey" border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjc5TWpw4U2Bk9FUGX6k5BfthXtMuZEbZ1KKHw-qhBNxlDLxwvzrqSZ9fViIIjS6MCNQQgYU7bDKpevliPPWgs0M9zabJXIzJu4tP-B486UxbnEMWkYoQa_0Qc9q9rzdhJk4dgg1zNxpSR3jt3ebX6o8mYW16-ajdOoZGQHXxWa29K2h8YY2hU2EteCFo/s16000/Jim%20Bailey%20-%20Night%20Court%20-%20tv%20USA%20-%201985%202.jpg" title="Jim Bailey femulating on a 1985 episode of television’s Night Court." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jim Bailey femulating on a 1985 episode of television’s <i>Night Court</i>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-53351079896472172372024-03-17T00:00:00.062-04:002024-03-17T00:00:00.132-04:00Who Wouldn't!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">Deja Brooks, in white pumps, was selected Queen of the 2022 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Lawrence, Kansas. You can read all about it by clicking <a href="https://lawrencekstimes.com/2022/03/15/deja-brooks-parade-queen/">here</a>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-42951582541864314772024-03-16T00:00:00.034-04:002024-03-16T00:00:00.133-04:00What Is?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqUdnJwRhyphenhyphen7Q1qxswE0Vh0-bBRjcIX68YEtXR8OXtz_Y1evUvDYKxuPUeFqTWYusvjcV_MFBXZQC-1uwLVR0qCm-r0kT4AodRUbRiUlgkH0JwtbqmeTRKqfWcIsVzdL40nlrLH-Ce5dfU-JGWVlnATqBxxCb7sALAWF0ahn9-WsfPDZoJoyi6FmZuwgn3/s600/out%20with%20the%20boys.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqUdnJwRhyphenhyphen7Q1qxswE0Vh0-bBRjcIX68YEtXR8OXtz_Y1evUvDYKxuPUeFqTWYusvjcV_MFBXZQC-1uwLVR0qCm-r0kT4AodRUbRiUlgkH0JwtbqmeTRKqfWcIsVzdL40nlrLH-Ce5dfU-JGWVlnATqBxxCb7sALAWF0ahn9-WsfPDZoJoyi6FmZuwgn3/s16000/out%20with%20the%20boys.png" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">Markus Kelle (right) femulating in a 2014 episode of television's <i>The Mysteries of Laura</i>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-46218048034612675012024-03-15T00:00:00.075-04:002024-03-16T16:20:05.376-04:00My Annual Ides of March Post<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-R20JdEvaaLIS-qbB-Jfp0KJoo7WCGRv3juSQGgOBNT3VvwGtxXI63tW4MvpACHSpR0OhF5mEWTmnnZKAm_34f64dIGmU3TKkzi-ocPLXeAnIRS6yv_eTcsjDaVPNoDXCLnf0U9J-4LSg5LqGeDqALkVjJPei0gyORnbOJKhG4p_2sEAl0UN0BAh2Wr3B/s600/2024-03-13-lunch.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-R20JdEvaaLIS-qbB-Jfp0KJoo7WCGRv3juSQGgOBNT3VvwGtxXI63tW4MvpACHSpR0OhF5mEWTmnnZKAm_34f64dIGmU3TKkzi-ocPLXeAnIRS6yv_eTcsjDaVPNoDXCLnf0U9J-4LSg5LqGeDqALkVjJPei0gyORnbOJKhG4p_2sEAl0UN0BAh2Wr3B/s16000/2024-03-13-lunch.png" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wednesday, I met my lady friends at Westbrook Lobster for “lunch” at 1 PM. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The weather was crazy warm for March in this neck of the woods, so I did not require outerwear and got away wearing just a black Venus sweater dress, black Nine West pumps, black Berkshire thigh highs and assorted unmentionables. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I did something that I haven’t done in a very long time: nicked myself shaving. So I had to deal with that before applying my makeup.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Liquid eyeliner is hit or miss with me. Sometimes it goes on perfectly; other times (Wednesday) it’s not so perfect. I imagine if I used eyeliner everyday, I would get consistently better results, but I don’t wear eyeliner everyday and so it goes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Left home at 12:20 PM. Traffic was light and I arrived at the restaurant 31 minutes/17 miles later. Entering the restaurant, a woman escorted me to our table where Lee Anne and sister blogger <a href="https://dianacorner.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Diana</a> were already seated. My escort turned out to be our waitress and she could not </span><span>have been kinder constantly referring to us as “ladies” with and without the “pretty” adjective.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My lunch, swordfish and asparagus over a bed of rice, was excellent and my waist cincher informed me that I nearly cleaned my plate!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Family, health and trans stuff were the topics of discussion and before we knew it, it was time to depart and return to our respective domiciles.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking forward to doing it again real soon now.</span></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb0cx6IcLP9JpcQkfq0cv1VqP-Ao5lq9H3LVFKtZA0HlszM0GaaRBEew6NFzarKqfxZQmxvU4v0CkO4uyD5q84Xz3gI4zz-sZdbqGmKXplwaUOfkOJJDSQtM1nUVZfD8rp7c8JLo-9gfFYjmqZFVzE-nCfvKfyVRLrmZE3Aa37_duNuTeQqIjOTXh2eRNX/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisu2ElE7-cWXL_yHrX4lhv2oOCURdF0ZXPpzcQCr52yTsAIA0hp7EYWDXc5JSIRFCLDTxrNZonADNPK68pm-BxFh4P92LL3A0j6XcuClX2Yv1VX-J8EWMO_uteERn6_8-6FDwEUOmYs3YRxn01JNZzNYH82WTvQqg04pIMMDqCQjuf6Mmot5xtxVswdzoQ/s500/The-Rolling-Stones-Have%20You%20Seen%20Your%20Mother.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Rolling Stones" border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisu2ElE7-cWXL_yHrX4lhv2oOCURdF0ZXPpzcQCr52yTsAIA0hp7EYWDXc5JSIRFCLDTxrNZonADNPK68pm-BxFh4P92LL3A0j6XcuClX2Yv1VX-J8EWMO_uteERn6_8-6FDwEUOmYs3YRxn01JNZzNYH82WTvQqg04pIMMDqCQjuf6Mmot5xtxVswdzoQ/s16000/The-Rolling-Stones-Have%20You%20Seen%20Your%20Mother.png" title=""The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band in the World"" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band in the World"</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;">This image of the femulating Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and the seated Bill Wyman appeared on the back of the sleeve for 45 RPM recording of "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows?" The song blew me away and is still one of my favorite Stones' recordings, but being 1966, the boys appearing crossdressed was absolutely amazing to this young femulator in training (FIT). Bits of the boys <i>en femme</i> appear in a promotional video for the song; click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HARY3-RYy90" target="_blank">here</a> to view it on YouTube.<br /></span><p></p>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-81615987537702410822024-03-14T00:00:00.004-04:002024-03-14T00:00:00.134-04:00The Million Dollar Question<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjge1Fv6eCjvfaZZfg1U7Y2HHjqVdMlm6GULgBuzCi9AB85meTslnvDHq2YthwU9TAlTMLy_LzdWsYU0f2OGBysYVFEHVHEjtretwoNQTj3pbUI_aW130kXsn2ZhhlZNK55TXHsBH9KRZorwYMSXoj559ksTpCMpdC89Hgra0wg7gGr8qNJwkZgVhBM2eC6/s776/womanizer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjge1Fv6eCjvfaZZfg1U7Y2HHjqVdMlm6GULgBuzCi9AB85meTslnvDHq2YthwU9TAlTMLy_LzdWsYU0f2OGBysYVFEHVHEjtretwoNQTj3pbUI_aW130kXsn2ZhhlZNK55TXHsBH9KRZorwYMSXoj559ksTpCMpdC89Hgra0wg7gGr8qNJwkZgVhBM2eC6/s16000/womanizer.png" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_GpGt-XppkUgnvD6Veu83QCNOjSa0G1UCrVQbz8WZ9-nMfBbPCM5iMdhOLyNiKiQtz0hIg5TbW-zd_LHMDC4XpX3vkviKGB372q2ypw1iC3wDlM8wVn5YZwD_XtjKJ3-8c_hhVj4inFcEzsh_jN7fPF9kzBu5_ylqZJVTWozDCsPTtMXGf7s-c70hEBY/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_GpGt-XppkUgnvD6Veu83QCNOjSa0G1UCrVQbz8WZ9-nMfBbPCM5iMdhOLyNiKiQtz0hIg5TbW-zd_LHMDC4XpX3vkviKGB372q2ypw1iC3wDlM8wVn5YZwD_XtjKJ3-8c_hhVj4inFcEzsh_jN7fPF9kzBu5_ylqZJVTWozDCsPTtMXGf7s-c70hEBY/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj4yOrFHsIhksxtNRiVqXpD1Mchvjzh6DcIbV_bd6I-LTdrG3YXNHT_A-U1Hwb_diCy6taHM3HFmsVhDmYZtDhHh7prpsYB-877XQoBepbDW_3CkQKUPV0CbenJ3O_mqZSJqps56T-2Z2Zz_KpMO_qyQMDxeF1LaMI9tJNY3uFpBYCPoyjytzkbtbw42iK/s753/BP%202024-03-12%20at%2010.55.59%E2%80%AFAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Source: Boston Proper" border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj4yOrFHsIhksxtNRiVqXpD1Mchvjzh6DcIbV_bd6I-LTdrG3YXNHT_A-U1Hwb_diCy6taHM3HFmsVhDmYZtDhHh7prpsYB-877XQoBepbDW_3CkQKUPV0CbenJ3O_mqZSJqps56T-2Z2Zz_KpMO_qyQMDxeF1LaMI9tJNY3uFpBYCPoyjytzkbtbw42iK/s16000/BP%202024-03-12%20at%2010.55.59%E2%80%AFAM.png" title="Wearing Boston Proper" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wearing Boston Proper</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatMi_xwGDM4P3d0OPgi2E9LVgpZJ8u7yguEyzTwwGZjpQu216femt_l4asm7VR7auGuRAD8RSpxtEPoqF-TL2eoSuTVqBGwnLpf9dcvzcnTfj6CAGj5F9lgwl5_2U6PstUmBtCI1ACQuVGsgYQ-xxzvQ5619J5IhT2ycwEx6YSyCa5DbSgo_5RzvSzaqm/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatMi_xwGDM4P3d0OPgi2E9LVgpZJ8u7yguEyzTwwGZjpQu216femt_l4asm7VR7auGuRAD8RSpxtEPoqF-TL2eoSuTVqBGwnLpf9dcvzcnTfj6CAGj5F9lgwl5_2U6PstUmBtCI1ACQuVGsgYQ-xxzvQ5619J5IhT2ycwEx6YSyCa5DbSgo_5RzvSzaqm/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgeneiU4T4I07rT762WFQFUEy7vc69a5HH_GDlKdE5RZlFaDAazKg9FY4sVXAAk3OnA3b1gUP6-u9pDIAqMAqFelArMcDpFm_2DBQPqgYNhqxDJ0_WdZQ9CEBez3K1DEkG0grMEGcESFnYi-AV74EVfsYg9EBxGIgLQtD7Y3wpNvStGIiOXKmnnvxh1pD/s600/china%20tv%20femulator%20Amazing%20My%20Star.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Amazing My Star" border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgeneiU4T4I07rT762WFQFUEy7vc69a5HH_GDlKdE5RZlFaDAazKg9FY4sVXAAk3OnA3b1gUP6-u9pDIAqMAqFelArMcDpFm_2DBQPqgYNhqxDJ0_WdZQ9CEBez3K1DEkG0grMEGcESFnYi-AV74EVfsYg9EBxGIgLQtD7Y3wpNvStGIiOXKmnnvxh1pD/s16000/china%20tv%20femulator%20Amazing%20My%20Star.png" title="An amazing femulator on Chinese television's Amazing My Star." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An amazing femulator on Chinese television's <i>Amazing My Star</i>.<br />This is must-see TV. Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A94lXQcV5I0" target="_blank">here</a> to see this amazing femulator.<br />You won't be disappointed!</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-1297801387461677882024-03-13T00:00:00.098-04:002024-03-13T00:00:00.156-04:00Exóticos!<span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-K4ragpOCxZkaQB1LE_UBPRDOYiiNyZxBshSQl63aKTpdH1doZzjXT3EnQaXWSlVAidcXdHNLnkrDY5yKXKeQfcUguxV5ijWq4Cb8ZekXtkspelaypVJQDb0XNNBdRiforRMlCvmx45i_am3xD-WpN-dsiSp60Ft33A4gHBs9Q1C9Uk954sHnNI3I86eX/s641/Pimpinela_Escarlata.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="360" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-K4ragpOCxZkaQB1LE_UBPRDOYiiNyZxBshSQl63aKTpdH1doZzjXT3EnQaXWSlVAidcXdHNLnkrDY5yKXKeQfcUguxV5ijWq4Cb8ZekXtkspelaypVJQDb0XNNBdRiforRMlCvmx45i_am3xD-WpN-dsiSp60Ft33A4gHBs9Q1C9Uk954sHnNI3I86eX/w304-h540/Pimpinela_Escarlata.png" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="text-align: left;">Exótico </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimpinela_Escarlata" target="_blank">Pimpinela Escarlata</a></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Maybe I need to get out more, but here is something I never heard of until Michelle alerted me about it: professional wrestling in drag! Evidently, <i>exóticos</i> are a thing in Mexico.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exótico" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <i>Exóticos</i> are male wrestlers who appropriate feminine aspects in their wrestling personas or “gimmicks” – through feminine costumes, for example, “contesting the dramatic representation of machismo” and successfully unmanning their opponents in the ring while also “rejecting the outward signs of manhood.” Though <i>exoticos</i> may not necessarily be gay, they often are, and their sexual ambiguity is undeniable. Attired with feather boas, headdresses, sequins or stockings, they defy a religious Latin culture that is ardently macho.”</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Reminds me of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgeous_George#References">Gorgeous George</a>, a mid-20th Century American professional wrestler who used feminine gimmicks. For some reason, my mother enjoyed George’s antics. She also liked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace" target="_blank">Liberace</a>. Did her fondness for the effeminate have anything to do with my effeminate nature? </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9-frNmIymJr7A-OFD15w_8szIC76hX3SjzD8L5CWJvaW44t2e99CO-bJiD6QArBvhBTR_9hp5Cf35GEDsJnJInnzicjon6ZrrBIbYlk4LfWKfQiZZyTJVtE5SrATOGCiVTvWte-lTW0-Rm-CSiS1qQdgbi9DnaLCPMA68pGCHdCrrrUNRYhqnhgmDsLAN/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9-frNmIymJr7A-OFD15w_8szIC76hX3SjzD8L5CWJvaW44t2e99CO-bJiD6QArBvhBTR_9hp5Cf35GEDsJnJInnzicjon6ZrrBIbYlk4LfWKfQiZZyTJVtE5SrATOGCiVTvWte-lTW0-Rm-CSiS1qQdgbi9DnaLCPMA68pGCHdCrrrUNRYhqnhgmDsLAN/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG_jUtBDJiC6GruJGCI56mCwVq8riNpc-HfOzyATONB_lDWaTOUxwxGAM2VjMUimd9Uz-MN8UHdj3yTahAw3pe8KEtTVbv5Fhiif3Zxxf0A8GayRjQGJ1ZCo1v9qKFC6GAC62rIBixWqSAyUKTgNPopv1L9ZzAP1vpLYluE6dSq0O5BMk2lm1MregWJ0cB/s899/Sherri%20Hill%202024-03-09%201.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Source: Sherri Hill" border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG_jUtBDJiC6GruJGCI56mCwVq8riNpc-HfOzyATONB_lDWaTOUxwxGAM2VjMUimd9Uz-MN8UHdj3yTahAw3pe8KEtTVbv5Fhiif3Zxxf0A8GayRjQGJ1ZCo1v9qKFC6GAC62rIBixWqSAyUKTgNPopv1L9ZzAP1vpLYluE6dSq0O5BMk2lm1MregWJ0cB/s16000/Sherri%20Hill%202024-03-09%201.png" title="Wearing Sherri Hill" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wearing Sherri Hill</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pasión Kristal" border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7A_mOVjbFELgblP0FdRdLXg5E4NIHBn5H8uMLteNueaRJpgoW2hcO6IyNFoYig7qnkNpbbj6LwN8pfulB_HNFqzKHO8tH7TECaQeif23MT63Tocj_GBmYqOocUs5gN0mwguYnUQYXbjYV1cZttczLiDm1J1_MtQUnpEsfHXhDhM8G_4wNU_-mzqm7d_e6/s16000/Pasio%CC%81n%20Kristal.png" title="Exótico Pasión Kristal" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><i style="text-align: left;">Exótico </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasión_Kristal" target="_blank">P</a></b><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasión_Kristal" target="_blank">asión Kristal</a></b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-20989583512394004212024-03-12T00:00:00.014-04:002024-03-12T00:00:00.132-04:00Girl Time!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">Wearing Boston Proper</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyo6Wlu8n6lP5kaDV7ZU933WNiDTfU6Bcsq2KB09Ek6AnyRI8k8rGULZGRtXkhNLsS3f6Fr5Jgx7_dXNH9BKDUut3YNcLjRLadI2fAXrLILfGbFGD3d1Yx_SWwfmOiboGFtFm1OKSqHEQQOQUpSBqsv1AbVkyZ4RnoziEYOf9ftlR57z5CusiP_uMgHA5G/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyo6Wlu8n6lP5kaDV7ZU933WNiDTfU6Bcsq2KB09Ek6AnyRI8k8rGULZGRtXkhNLsS3f6Fr5Jgx7_dXNH9BKDUut3YNcLjRLadI2fAXrLILfGbFGD3d1Yx_SWwfmOiboGFtFm1OKSqHEQQOQUpSBqsv1AbVkyZ4RnoziEYOf9ftlR57z5CusiP_uMgHA5G/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1oXdUwCGqEtcX0qYfAy9Zp8u5LmFqaqOqYxYZf7vkJWIV9y1og9P_BoEzkh3Bne9GqrgEfoOL4rIm30Qi-P_o01fFmCXiwy5v2ygiDR_gubl4wjxMk9IvCDD7qre4In0vY35TApJ6kVZ2ziD3W1dgs0k1qDuwxeM-3-BuDel0UMnAyyYQgikc7dsjibYQ/s958/Nina%20Brown.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nina Brown" border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1oXdUwCGqEtcX0qYfAy9Zp8u5LmFqaqOqYxYZf7vkJWIV9y1og9P_BoEzkh3Bne9GqrgEfoOL4rIm30Qi-P_o01fFmCXiwy5v2ygiDR_gubl4wjxMk9IvCDD7qre4In0vY35TApJ6kVZ2ziD3W1dgs0k1qDuwxeM-3-BuDel0UMnAyyYQgikc7dsjibYQ/w400-h640/Nina%20Brown.png" title="65-years-young, Nina, long-time Femulate reader" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">65-years-young, Nina, long-time Femulate reader</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-32568149805639065562024-03-11T00:00:00.198-04:002024-03-11T00:00:00.252-04:00Felicity Chandelle, Pilot and Crossdresser<p style="color: #343434; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>By Jan Brown and Dallas Denny</b></span></p>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI3KUkq-vkNbLgro_VhFkTYqjVGHvvqUOXgKqhYjel1gWWqUhuqI8EvvwRO887JX5YQ-NG8U3h0THgS70y2PO3UrRpOt_aR1aKPsV0SFpuZbMfKFGX2DWV7MActO4YDz6Yz-KU6uLx1lbkzlLWajtulXq4u-bhTno9ZEJxzq2EuuWumf_JCxz312NRfxS6/s980/01.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="980" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI3KUkq-vkNbLgro_VhFkTYqjVGHvvqUOXgKqhYjel1gWWqUhuqI8EvvwRO887JX5YQ-NG8U3h0THgS70y2PO3UrRpOt_aR1aKPsV0SFpuZbMfKFGX2DWV7MActO4YDz6Yz-KU6uLx1lbkzlLWajtulXq4u-bhTno9ZEJxzq2EuuWumf_JCxz312NRfxS6/w640-h426/01.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;">This photo of Felicity Chandelle initially appeared in Mariette Pathy Allen’s book </i><span style="text-align: left;">Transformations</span><i style="text-align: left;">. Felicity is sitting in a chair in front of an old photograph of her mother and a child. That child is Felicity, dressed as a young girl</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Felicity Chandelle, known in some circles as Captain John MacDonald Miller, was present at the very beginnings of gatherings of crossdressers on the East Coast of the United States. She led a long and distinguished life in both of her modes of presentation. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">This article is based upon a workshop we did together about Felicity at Trans Week 2023. If Trans Week is a name unfamiliar to you, know that it was formerly called Fantasia Fair. This year marked the 49<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th </sup></span>annual gathering in Provincetown on the very tip of Cape Cod. Next year, the 50<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span>, will be a blow-out event and you are invited. If you are reading this you are welcome, of course, to register, but if you just show up in P’Town, you’ll find others like yourself with whom you can socialize, enjoy fine dining and free admission to daily keynotes and purchase tickets for sale at low prices to three of our evening events. Come if you can. The dates for Trans Week 2024 are October 20 through 27, 2024.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Our workshop came about because Jan and Felicity were friends. Before Felicity passed away at age 102, Jan helped her donate her crossdressing materials to the <a href="https://gaycenter.org/"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">LGBT Center</span></a> in New York City, where they’re available to view and study. Jan wound up with two photo albums from 1961 and 1962. We recently scanned the more than 200 photos. The images will soon be added to the wonderful <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Digital Transgender Archive</span></a>, but for now, you can peruse them on <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JBHGQxF-zQHoYBFGGHRQoi1xt_tgO9-H?usp=drive_link"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Dallas’ Google Drive</span></a>.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">We begin with the story of Captain Johnny Miller.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMPa1uT838UpIkpyKg73HUXPPbjtOFM-rMIjoWfrWFf8TO23ufEZ2n5LV_k4qJ89qF1O8RVGmW34gkFtlWtCCGduj1lmbUslI99ZwkJs588wkAfv3GwuEYFOyajx7z-PqsH8xN4p-E48AD0ira9PyJGL8Z04v2-RQI7O7v5b3ekYDioyg9EGcOEoapOaB/s1028/02.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="766" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMPa1uT838UpIkpyKg73HUXPPbjtOFM-rMIjoWfrWFf8TO23ufEZ2n5LV_k4qJ89qF1O8RVGmW34gkFtlWtCCGduj1lmbUslI99ZwkJs588wkAfv3GwuEYFOyajx7z-PqsH8xN4p-E48AD0ira9PyJGL8Z04v2-RQI7O7v5b3ekYDioyg9EGcOEoapOaB/w477-h640/02.png" width="477" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Captain John MacDonald Miller</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Flying</span></b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At age ten, in 1915, young John Miller was spending his free time at the Curtiss Flying School at Mineola on Long Island. There, Zagria Cowell writes in her <a href="https://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/05/felicity-chandelle-1905-2008-pilot.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Gender Variance Who’s Who website</span></a>, “she encountered Ruth Law, the third American woman to get a flying license.” By seventeen, Miller had taught himself to fly and was earning money by barnstorming and giving rides to pleasure-seeking customers. He was the stunt flyer for the 1935 film <span style="color: #0b4cb4;"><i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026593/">Ladies Crave Excitement.</a></i></span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWNrhCBUMPz_p096WkNEHwe-jqO_gX6i3B4d9kTP6DMOOBYu0ZVid_acFR99rl97TorbgiTIxA8OnO5TWSE2_c4xxJfYuMayh5Kv_kyS-ZwBdRjuZneaEOo1eb9xkiVBai_jeeh_jmaniKna24drRqv_XWsS9dzeTHEfgh72U5FDtIjEUZGrt_QThwRbN/s832/03.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="832" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWNrhCBUMPz_p096WkNEHwe-jqO_gX6i3B4d9kTP6DMOOBYu0ZVid_acFR99rl97TorbgiTIxA8OnO5TWSE2_c4xxJfYuMayh5Kv_kyS-ZwBdRjuZneaEOo1eb9xkiVBai_jeeh_jmaniKna24drRqv_XWsS9dzeTHEfgh72U5FDtIjEUZGrt_QThwRbN/w640-h442/03.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Captain Miller takes off from the roof of the U.S. Post Office in Philadelphia, 1935</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1931, Miller was the first person in America to buy a PCA-2 autogyro, which could perform nearly vertical ascents and descents. He was the first to make a transcontinental flight across North America in a gyrocopter. For this, he was in competition with Amelia Earhart. Miller knew, among others, Amelia and Charles Lindbergh; he was present when Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island for his successful nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Miller flew mail for the U.S. Post Office and is known <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoyWsg6Dxno&t=239s"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">for the first mail delivery by gyrocopter</span></a>. On May 27, 1935, he departed from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao3rKXJlqus"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">the roof of the post office building in downtown Philadelphia</span></a> and landed in Camden, New Jersey. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">He served as a pilot in the Marine Reserve and as a qualified naval aviator. In 1937, while serving as a test pilot for the Kellett Autogiro Company, his aircraft disintegrated around him, leaving him, according to various sources, either relatively unscathed or with a broken neck. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Miller was one of the earliest airline pilots. He began flying for United Airlines in 1936 and switched to Eastern Airlines in 1939. He was an airline pilot until 1964, when he was fired after public exposure following an arrest in New York City for having violated an anti-masking law by being crossdressed. He pled not guilty and was convicted, whereupon he took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to consider it.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Four of Captain Miller’s aircraft are preserved in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He was chosen as one of two pilots honored at the 100<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> anniversary of the Wright Brother’s first flight at Kitty Hawk; the other pilot was Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on The Moon.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Captain Miller was married twice, both times to women who knew of his crossdressing. He and Katherine, his first wife, had three children. After her death in 1963, he married, Edith, a physician. She died in 1991.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">John’s older sister, Lee, was a live-in companion of painter Pablo Picasso and the subject of fourteen of his paintings. Felicity said that when Johnny was young, Lee would dress him as a girl.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: 36px;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSE6DSUcciA7XPkAT-EDKeaebjsxXSzEjmgGNj7DKQ5IIsgin9Ee62ght_5GTsmJPuC1qmrBEGoivIwqm2rsd0DB8bVWeUtxF_T66TbQG-pP-IXnyHC1zl1EQph6A06Yv-lto8wGOgrXzuGH5iRLIpDH3cwQAoMGN5-LPfH4rbnUJO_IgFzENhVjuTlX4c/s494/04.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="368" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSE6DSUcciA7XPkAT-EDKeaebjsxXSzEjmgGNj7DKQ5IIsgin9Ee62ght_5GTsmJPuC1qmrBEGoivIwqm2rsd0DB8bVWeUtxF_T66TbQG-pP-IXnyHC1zl1EQph6A06Yv-lto8wGOgrXzuGH5iRLIpDH3cwQAoMGN5-LPfH4rbnUJO_IgFzENhVjuTlX4c/w477-h640/04.png" width="477" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of 14 paintings of Lee Miller by Pablo Picasso</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">John Miller was an exceptional pilot and by all accounts, an exceptional human being. There’s so much more we could say about him! Here’s just one tidbit: He held a patent for a rifle scope mount of his invention, the first that would stay in register after the scope was removed and reinstalled. He manufactured the mounts in his garage and sold them worldwide.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Miller, who spent his early days on Long Island, eventually moved to Poughkeepsie, where he met Jan.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiprIRc_LjGfGmr_-KR_NrGbSHFmTgxZgWfwKaLVLK0MYsStMy_Tp_1vDL84CSJ4CLDmRjWNR8VgwD67b-4t7En8pLEc-KoMUm0MflhigIje3dQ0OWTYbOCopH0UkUSczOho7xQEEM5cRrqwhX6iOy3yZY8Wix8sOHr2_9eoWd9h2i-eBtTxtIM0SxUcJy4/s826/05.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="826" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiprIRc_LjGfGmr_-KR_NrGbSHFmTgxZgWfwKaLVLK0MYsStMy_Tp_1vDL84CSJ4CLDmRjWNR8VgwD67b-4t7En8pLEc-KoMUm0MflhigIje3dQ0OWTYbOCopH0UkUSczOho7xQEEM5cRrqwhX6iOy3yZY8Wix8sOHr2_9eoWd9h2i-eBtTxtIM0SxUcJy4/w640-h328/05.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>John Miller died </span><span>of natural causes</span><span> in 2008 at age 102, two years after his last flight, at age 100. He holds the record for being the world’s oldest pilot. His last words to his nephew were, “I guess my flying days are over.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSdPjbE0GrER3tjLdpwasKxE4aBqQUAeGyKo0rIxIy5v0ua3Otbh3WRJmkyU7bZDaU1h3xxcFGa6lYViRIgecPYxZZ8gnI8Qn3Bx3W96thSLDlxbd2Oon99DsLTWkP3klFTnnJb85noUGPvNE8N8jgsW-_0lEOPQasmmx17dP6WEXnMyhkl__g57fRev35/s1103/06.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSdPjbE0GrER3tjLdpwasKxE4aBqQUAeGyKo0rIxIy5v0ua3Otbh3WRJmkyU7bZDaU1h3xxcFGa6lYViRIgecPYxZZ8gnI8Qn3Bx3W96thSLDlxbd2Oon99DsLTWkP3klFTnnJb85noUGPvNE8N8jgsW-_0lEOPQasmmx17dP6WEXnMyhkl__g57fRev35/w446-h640/06.png" width="446" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Felicity Chandelle, 11-12-1961, posing with a friend’s Corvette</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Felicity</span></b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apart from a couple of childhood incidents, John didn’t crossdress until 1960, when she took up the practice with enthusiasm. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">“There was absolutely no sexual impulse, just the love of the clothes and the pleasure of being a different person, in public.” She never crossdressed in private. “Underclothing held little interest for me.”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Felicity stood 6’2” (1.88m), but assumed that she passed, although others observed that she was usually read. She developed a reasonable contralto voice, quite different from her masculine baritone. She always tried on dresses in the shop. It is told that she went up to a policeman in Times Square pretending to be from Texas and got him to take her photograph. (Source: </span><a href="https://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/05/felicity-chandelle-1905-2008-pilot.html">Zagria Cowell, 2011</a>)</span></p><p style="color: #0b4cb4; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: #0b4cb4; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinCerW13yRFdJi0U9WxTx3oZV-L9ghC8pijWhgt_LWR39ssZK3RtWGQHkIHhOi-prilt0S7R4pNJpBGakjIo9LiGL1iY5HDqN7aXg8L29ghhOV2Nb7YaYo8Bh8eXxQIIEeDZuuQhGcGkpSHdiSnNgfEpWLnsXPN5X4XxtH4EP_I3KpnYIr8vw9_wRU4WPH/s1085/07.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="753" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinCerW13yRFdJi0U9WxTx3oZV-L9ghC8pijWhgt_LWR39ssZK3RtWGQHkIHhOi-prilt0S7R4pNJpBGakjIo9LiGL1iY5HDqN7aXg8L29ghhOV2Nb7YaYo8Bh8eXxQIIEeDZuuQhGcGkpSHdiSnNgfEpWLnsXPN5X4XxtH4EP_I3KpnYIr8vw9_wRU4WPH/w444-h640/07.png" width="444" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Felicity, November 9, 1961</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagelDcrdPPbFxGkWK3DvbQF4pmY9SgoBpGTAAkE4tEjlXXKKA13U19Gl8gJBBqFct_brINSCMWP3FTBGPx09WCUmcZ5ogh_fYIPhpo2HDfd_oc1TBKNVAzKzZChDodu_tqpGzWcz62YHCFhZrx0txCYUKGed8dpod0GEdyGN-Ov67I80fZs6yDGLPu_Gx/s1093/08.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="772" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagelDcrdPPbFxGkWK3DvbQF4pmY9SgoBpGTAAkE4tEjlXXKKA13U19Gl8gJBBqFct_brINSCMWP3FTBGPx09WCUmcZ5ogh_fYIPhpo2HDfd_oc1TBKNVAzKzZChDodu_tqpGzWcz62YHCFhZrx0txCYUKGed8dpod0GEdyGN-Ov67I80fZs6yDGLPu_Gx/w452-h640/08.png" width="452" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Felicity, November 9, 1961, inscription on back of photo</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Felicity was always well put together and fashionable. Like many crossdressers, she was a fan of photos of herself and she frequently posed in formal dress. She owned a variety of fur stoles and capes and wore them often in hot weather. According to Zagria Cowell, She kept an apartment in New York City specifically for crossdressing. She was friends with Virginia Prince and put her up once in her apartment. Virginia was mugged during her stay. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jan met Felicity when she joined the Mid-Hudson Valley Transgender Association, a support group. By that time, she was unable to drive and attended only when someone was able to bring her to the meetings. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jan says, “I remember one evening when I got dressed at her home, attended the meeting, and came back to change at her home. I could see from the front door that she was asleep in the chair in the living room. I rang the doorbell and she slept on. I knocked several times and couldn’t wake her up. She didn’t stir even when I pounded. I went around to the window by her chair and pounded on it, but she didn’t stir. I ended up going to my workplace to change. No one saw me and I was able to leave without a problem, but I certainly didn’t want to make this a regular occurrence!”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the occasion of Felicity’s 100<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> birthday, her support group gifted her with a makeover. Afterward, she looked into a mirror and said, “Geesh, I can do this myself!”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the more than 200 photos we scanned from Felicity’s 1961-1962 photo albums, there were many images of her, but in the interest of brevity, we provide only one; follow the link we provided above for lots more. Fortunately, Felicity made notes on the margins or backs of most of her photos, thus, we know the dates and subjects for most images and for some, the location.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to Virginia Prince’s <a href="https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/collections/virgina-prince/index.php"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;"><i>Transvestia</i></span></a> magazine, Felicity soon met other crossdressers in the New York area. Since the early1950s, Marie and Susanna Valenti had hosted crossdressers at their apartment at 875 West End Avenue in New York City, and their Chevalier D’Eon Resort in the Catskill Mountains. Later, they would sell the property and buy another resort in nearby Hunter, New York, which they called Casa Susanna. Recent discovery of photos from the Casa Susanna years resulted in a <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Casa-Susanna/Michel-Hurst/9781576877333"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">book</span></a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Valentina"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Broadway play by Harvey Fierstein</span></a>, a <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21875250/"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">movie by French Director Sébastien Lifshitz</span></a>, and many articles in the popular press—but Felicity’s photo books predate the opening of Casa Susanna by a couple of years.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCwRQGMbm8cZyf1gjcL4ghKoaPhEZhZvNsVqbYzupq_cxNYJcjE7hnMRdKBzF3h_rH5xUMleb5Pqcran7Khp9HuidAldSLtvd9hhhSoPHbvWPaq2oSkxjqdJlsJKifsVkdyRbMEpWMVuw3a80-xAOn9O6oDltpmFjO_qSsnoQyBJ82oLwLRwB9onKiToaD/s1097/09.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1097" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCwRQGMbm8cZyf1gjcL4ghKoaPhEZhZvNsVqbYzupq_cxNYJcjE7hnMRdKBzF3h_rH5xUMleb5Pqcran7Khp9HuidAldSLtvd9hhhSoPHbvWPaq2oSkxjqdJlsJKifsVkdyRbMEpWMVuw3a80-xAOn9O6oDltpmFjO_qSsnoQyBJ82oLwLRwB9onKiToaD/w579-h347/09.png" width="579" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Roster, the Playgirl Club, 1961</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Felicity’s albums center on the first two get-togethers of the “Playgirl Club,” hosted in Poughkeepsie, where she lived; and almost certainly at her house, as she hosted the meetings. Neither of us had heard of the Playgirl Club, which was probably short-lived, but some of the players showed up later in the Casa Susanna photographs, including resort owners Susanna and Marie Valenti, noted science fiction author, member of the Futurians, and co-founder of Ace Books Donald A. Wollheim, and the one and only Virginia Prince. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We’re certain many of the attendees of the Playgirl Club meetings can be found in the pages of <i>Transvestia</i>, Michel Hurst and Robert Swope’s <i>Casa Susanna,</i> and collections of early photos held by the Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive in Vallejo, California and The Transgender Archive in Victoria, British Columbia. Bobbie Davis of the Louise Lawrence Archive and Dallas have been working together to trace these linkages.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The materials Felicity and Jan took to the LGBT Community Center in New York are catalogued as the <a href="https://gaycenter.org/archive-collection/felicity-chandell-papers/"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Felicity Chandell Papers</span></a> and include personal correspondence, often with photos, receipts, newspaper clippings and comics, event brochures, newsletters, product catalogs, Tri-Ess directories and early books on crossdressing. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We conclude with a few photos from Felicity’s Chandelle’s 1961 and 1962 photo albums. In addition to being one of the twentieth century’s most notable and well-known pilots, Felicity has gifted us with a significant piece of trans history.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWh86ffRml3W2LLT9TTLZqOomg7RFFmQO-DR__mSx3Zt3QEilu61jl0yCJxrzmgcmGplF_rhAY5KzodBKx4AnfyOCG4ElScG_Gialf-T9Lm2H5tImbHP8CegNLGqGqDQluvVI6Qlhcg2JuQ0kqFPxke-EL3Sk7K3UZutmtsB7CszD0M9cHJDdynfPl5_pD/s1107/10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="1107" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWh86ffRml3W2LLT9TTLZqOomg7RFFmQO-DR__mSx3Zt3QEilu61jl0yCJxrzmgcmGplF_rhAY5KzodBKx4AnfyOCG4ElScG_Gialf-T9Lm2H5tImbHP8CegNLGqGqDQluvVI6Qlhcg2JuQ0kqFPxke-EL3Sk7K3UZutmtsB7CszD0M9cHJDdynfPl5_pD/w640-h450/10.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsXwIJ5N8MAM1pSWoxXfQArezKAr8HpEBxtdG3OE0Giw5K57DQmr18w71XHNl8BU7zSsHkLXAIA3TPpUJTJjMKFA6qUWbUHWbAFfrC6U6selRtsY4JvKnuZKiUe7DFmfP8jxuWFrGlFvtaejoUggvGk4XfqC24hGYdHQfrRfq8ADPImU1ik7lllyY7nljb/s767/11.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="549" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsXwIJ5N8MAM1pSWoxXfQArezKAr8HpEBxtdG3OE0Giw5K57DQmr18w71XHNl8BU7zSsHkLXAIA3TPpUJTJjMKFA6qUWbUHWbAFfrC6U6selRtsY4JvKnuZKiUe7DFmfP8jxuWFrGlFvtaejoUggvGk4XfqC24hGYdHQfrRfq8ADPImU1ik7lllyY7nljb/w458-h640/11.png" width="458" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Here Captain Miller has to leave the Playgirl Club’s first party to pilot an airliner.</span></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
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text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Donald A. Wollheim sits between Gina and Suzy</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHRM7sa9meYYyOTLdLdes8OawoPj-A2ywTlVPOUoW8agfGJXcrCB3ZZj8EEjdgz6aeJf6XlUEumXy7DSv39_BFt6CObZcs2xpvIgFeEOAcmsYrCisJBvu9rSFmQeTy2CvJTCtbswgK1CfpuBI1s8XfyVJtOuyE4aZuMVR9H01BwSLqqo-o94eQ2zkFwCb/s774/18.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="547" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHRM7sa9meYYyOTLdLdes8OawoPj-A2ywTlVPOUoW8agfGJXcrCB3ZZj8EEjdgz6aeJf6XlUEumXy7DSv39_BFt6CObZcs2xpvIgFeEOAcmsYrCisJBvu9rSFmQeTy2CvJTCtbswgK1CfpuBI1s8XfyVJtOuyE4aZuMVR9H01BwSLqqo-o94eQ2zkFwCb/w452-h640/18.png" width="452" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Virginia Prince. Note the developing stamp on the right margin. 1963 is about the time she attended a supper at Casa Susanna to promote her magazine and her group Full Personality Expression.<br /></span><br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQjXiW3qVRyu08LS9EfkBhbqhf0mVLXM_8QHldTI2qKvk7Gb0i6Yyhw2n-HoiA3cSis2llYWIDygHs_fRW2qj5seyFvb-iCVAfAOygMrIop4RBmiPY0QmM1RKnAYCiaxZ4FvouyrCyTB_7g_DBEf70OMJCFHny7PtusdhifCkyw7OqaljtQUJGKESCcxu/s1428/19.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="1428" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQjXiW3qVRyu08LS9EfkBhbqhf0mVLXM_8QHldTI2qKvk7Gb0i6Yyhw2n-HoiA3cSis2llYWIDygHs_fRW2qj5seyFvb-iCVAfAOygMrIop4RBmiPY0QmM1RKnAYCiaxZ4FvouyrCyTB_7g_DBEf70OMJCFHny7PtusdhifCkyw7OqaljtQUJGKESCcxu/w640-h440/19.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;">Dinner at Casa Susanna. Virginia Prince is first on the left with a white top. Felicity is at right in a black dress. This photo is from Hurst and Swope’s book </i><span style="text-align: left;">Casa Susanna</span><i style="text-align: left;">.<br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p></p>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-74958256156885909252024-03-09T10:32:00.002-05:002024-03-10T10:23:58.384-04:00Joe Biden to trans Americans: “I have your back!”<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Joe Biden tells trans Americans in his State of the Union address: “I have your back!” </span><span>Click </span><a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/bidens-state-of-the-union-tells-trans-americans-i-have-your-back/?utm_id=top_story&utm_term=headline&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=202438%20LGBTQ%20Nation%20Daily%20Brief&utm_content=202438%20LGBTQ%20Nation%20Daily%20Brief+CID_18e4144ec4d5b3768f81e875f18baf1a&utm_source=LGBTQ%20Nation%20Subscribers&utm_term=Joe%20Biden%20tells%20trans%20Americans%20in%20his%20State%20of%20the%20Union%20address%20I%20have%20your%20back" target="_blank">here</a><span> to read more about it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, nothing but bad news from his predecessor and his ilk. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><u>Birthday</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you for your birthday wishes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I had a great birthday. My family took me to the casino and I came home $600 richer! Followed by dinner at one of my favorite Mexican restaurants! Cake and more gifts at home. And lots of love.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What a great day!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqeBpcgWgi6OVxIlgVjX-ANK0BIR6vTpBCgoU_wwwBMYZAHg0pTWW82UxIuSZKP4etiDCnMIl5_9cF3tuGwz_JCI45o20hmjeTdtcg5g_8zOcLSD5mEOP67y7wTgCbFX1YKyx75ZSvlSXWHwA6jVm6iq5CrTl9Hs3CckeJn3iFoa00AhShVVlxgfROlqQf/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqeBpcgWgi6OVxIlgVjX-ANK0BIR6vTpBCgoU_wwwBMYZAHg0pTWW82UxIuSZKP4etiDCnMIl5_9cF3tuGwz_JCI45o20hmjeTdtcg5g_8zOcLSD5mEOP67y7wTgCbFX1YKyx75ZSvlSXWHwA6jVm6iq5CrTl9Hs3CckeJn3iFoa00AhShVVlxgfROlqQf/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96auXYmgZrcGime4RFZUT70PJ5USGcswM8OicjY9QU4_sFcOlC1hTpsmY0gMEdBwmZJtq8HKYUfORrgjFSLDXomo9Vbs4ZHOErRe3lm25VTX2ZYQikTQCxdAHCuvYhoLYY3TqA8vS68CLoV61t2rpRQh-G6ToX5f348eB3YERGhN1F_KiqQpmQzNXQ73i/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96auXYmgZrcGime4RFZUT70PJ5USGcswM8OicjY9QU4_sFcOlC1hTpsmY0gMEdBwmZJtq8HKYUfORrgjFSLDXomo9Vbs4ZHOErRe3lm25VTX2ZYQikTQCxdAHCuvYhoLYY3TqA8vS68CLoV61t2rpRQh-G6ToX5f348eB3YERGhN1F_KiqQpmQzNXQ73i/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0nxky5VnBeFc9a9dsUlgwpQ07CD_dZnslPQ01jX-bLoTp3Hwj0trd-1wEDZwHo-MApNX-WZBUWeyyGl5OnaHuvH-dWpQuEGXCxa5W6xNa-ECaHgxJ_XX_eg7a9wPpLukIGJjE1lMY3bGCLAilwcjL77-zYm9iHeWTwQ0mNLzB6aud84agKvBicG6YNV3/s600/Zach%20Cregger%20-%20The%20Whitest%20Kids%20U'Know%20-%20tv%20USA%20-%202007-11%20A.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Zach Cregger" border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0nxky5VnBeFc9a9dsUlgwpQ07CD_dZnslPQ01jX-bLoTp3Hwj0trd-1wEDZwHo-MApNX-WZBUWeyyGl5OnaHuvH-dWpQuEGXCxa5W6xNa-ECaHgxJ_XX_eg7a9wPpLukIGJjE1lMY3bGCLAilwcjL77-zYm9iHeWTwQ0mNLzB6aud84agKvBicG6YNV3/s16000/Zach%20Cregger%20-%20The%20Whitest%20Kids%20U'Know%20-%20tv%20USA%20-%202007-11%20A.png" title="Zach Cregger (right) femulating in television's The Whitest Kids U'Know." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Zach Cregger (right) femulating in television's <i>The Whitest Kids U'Know</i>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-38049404718258263542024-03-08T00:00:00.044-05:002024-03-08T00:00:00.137-05:00Male Woman<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMUgOJVeECGkWR5fuFsB3Rr8spmFk8qfH6inva44Jiki1b1igc_NFYA7HX9M9HtOd-TjAViJyl6UX-mNhRPdjKrTCZX90uyey7T_o5W5vKX9gHgwSYLX9jxBN0kyIt-G3pcrcvzNWCgRdBsmji1xMpp8MIB0pH4AGBDVV8rbyAXru8HIm4ZFkK1yhwfYT/s600/73%20and%20counting.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="600" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMUgOJVeECGkWR5fuFsB3Rr8spmFk8qfH6inva44Jiki1b1igc_NFYA7HX9M9HtOd-TjAViJyl6UX-mNhRPdjKrTCZX90uyey7T_o5W5vKX9gHgwSYLX9jxBN0kyIt-G3pcrcvzNWCgRdBsmji1xMpp8MIB0pH4AGBDVV8rbyAXru8HIm4ZFkK1yhwfYT/w400-h297/73%20and%20counting.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">73 today and counting<br /><br /></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;">Today is <a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com" target="_blank">International Women’s Day</a>. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>As we prepare to celebrate International Women’s Day, our resolve to keep pushing for gender equality is stronger than ever. And we won’t stop until girls and women are equal everywhere.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>That’s because equality is her birthright, enshrined in the UN Charter, but it isn’t her reality. Despite some progress, there is no place or part of life where a girl or woman has the equal rights or opportunities as a boy or man.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As a male woman, I am very sympathetic to these goals. Though some would say that I have “male privilege,” I would argue that male women are treated worse than cisgender women and I yearn to achieve the same equality sought by women.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even living much of my life disguised as a male, my natural femininity marked me as less than a man and I was treated accordingly by both males and females. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Living as a male woman is an improvement. Living as my true self, females seem to embrace me as someone who had joined their team. On the other hand, some males treat me even more poorly than they did when I was in my male disguise. </span><span>I am sure that all male women have had similar experiences and also long for gender equality.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3q-AL5yJCzQUPlEnJ9BgAc6JPE9bT4hY5sWaHJHRa_O1OjHtLuY7uClZq-r50wmSgKuR27_NCigZZePMC9JAlM6oCwWCK_2gN1L8uDhl8ntyBcn9O3qBJWSVBvqvkTbRqe1PSqx58VEQ7sw_W0NvOXP-p_QuqdBGQs7Z57HwtLG2Lxk7POVu4GS8G0bd/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3q-AL5yJCzQUPlEnJ9BgAc6JPE9bT4hY5sWaHJHRa_O1OjHtLuY7uClZq-r50wmSgKuR27_NCigZZePMC9JAlM6oCwWCK_2gN1L8uDhl8ntyBcn9O3qBJWSVBvqvkTbRqe1PSqx58VEQ7sw_W0NvOXP-p_QuqdBGQs7Z57HwtLG2Lxk7POVu4GS8G0bd/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih27uZdS5dPgK1Pu3PxlZ9blDHH7tjF3Y01ostIpeYCcxM1TfH721nLTI5_S_UOj5Us0bcw1EobLZjrqcDdjoVHa1I9IWiyI3QZq_TB1S6DQZEhlQKk_drL42_VeOkvHHAbpctHT3K_pXa_K0LuSmsA5vMB6Phmlow4O0Iprsb63jb6MIacVI-H5EvIygp/s893/ann%20taylor%202024-03-06.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Source: Ann Taylor" border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih27uZdS5dPgK1Pu3PxlZ9blDHH7tjF3Y01ostIpeYCcxM1TfH721nLTI5_S_UOj5Us0bcw1EobLZjrqcDdjoVHa1I9IWiyI3QZq_TB1S6DQZEhlQKk_drL42_VeOkvHHAbpctHT3K_pXa_K0LuSmsA5vMB6Phmlow4O0Iprsb63jb6MIacVI-H5EvIygp/s16000/ann%20taylor%202024-03-06.png" title="Wearing Ann Taylor" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wearing Ann Taylor</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LepsN112E_1BZeiFvu2f4LBgTXbCGYGiog6xausoMpzKBrFfM1p0sCcgws9OqyU9nj2hcCj_FkZ_Ekos5ab2DR5Ibts2qKOQwILVlwx6JZAVeBPw8M8wgT5F0uTpetWFf4Y-ZHA2uAzJ93bVg8VD0AH8C2LxWbt2tD7gn0zSEwvGE3mgk_FJqSFBq7W4/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LepsN112E_1BZeiFvu2f4LBgTXbCGYGiog6xausoMpzKBrFfM1p0sCcgws9OqyU9nj2hcCj_FkZ_Ekos5ab2DR5Ibts2qKOQwILVlwx6JZAVeBPw8M8wgT5F0uTpetWFf4Y-ZHA2uAzJ93bVg8VD0AH8C2LxWbt2tD7gn0zSEwvGE3mgk_FJqSFBq7W4/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBec8uuzRiQlZHY62apP1MR_aHSd8pID-J3vc0cXUopUp31Giv9KcxYH4DukgLrVN-pMsZAMPN_AoLGaG8DaPB7nXPQIRk6uw421MBd1ro4umWVH0-CwyKa-_u_-i31_Pe7fgXBXTUdgFOhdK06pG8XOaomHO1r41IxQ6lUqOAze-KQ5WMcGKslh6wsmLG/s600/Bud%20Flanagan%20-%20Here%20Comes%20the%20Sun%20-%20film%20UK%20-%201946.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bud Flanagan" border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBec8uuzRiQlZHY62apP1MR_aHSd8pID-J3vc0cXUopUp31Giv9KcxYH4DukgLrVN-pMsZAMPN_AoLGaG8DaPB7nXPQIRk6uw421MBd1ro4umWVH0-CwyKa-_u_-i31_Pe7fgXBXTUdgFOhdK06pG8XOaomHO1r41IxQ6lUqOAze-KQ5WMcGKslh6wsmLG/s16000/Bud%20Flanagan%20-%20Here%20Comes%20the%20Sun%20-%20film%20UK%20-%201946.png" title="Bud Flanagan femulating in the 1946 British film Here Comes The Sun." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bud Flanagan femulating in the 1946 British film <i>Here Comes The Sun</i>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-32380761939040467752024-03-07T00:00:00.100-05:002024-03-07T00:00:00.158-05:00One Thing Leads to Another<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Recently, Pinterest sends me emails featuring Pinterest images that it thinks I might be of interest. So hot on the high heels of yesterday’s <a href="http://www.femulate.org/2024/03/prom-time.html" target="_blank">Prom Time post</a>, Pinterest's email included an image of two young fellows, Thayne and Tristan, wearing gowns that could be considered as prom dresses (image right). What a coincidence!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I was curious about Thayne and Tristan and Googled them to see if there were any other signs of them femulating. Nothing was discovered, but there was a Google reference to another “Tristan,” a transwoman in Kansas City (MO) who was voted as homecoming queen at her high school.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAsa8-Zyu8ortHyAha0tTg8MwXdXIrBAvHYRhvd9qUSKma3N9CcKyKWRtjHJ8OfidAHheXyBTElpwkyx05kq4ae1GUYnUvTJPqLBm_QMUd9mvqOldKsV_nsfKHdjPiNzuE011WfHUUWxrzw7tpHk4mITqNBntMq36ddG2M48V5m8INkyys10a8CyRDVOE/s604/tristans.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAsa8-Zyu8ortHyAha0tTg8MwXdXIrBAvHYRhvd9qUSKma3N9CcKyKWRtjHJ8OfidAHheXyBTElpwkyx05kq4ae1GUYnUvTJPqLBm_QMUd9mvqOldKsV_nsfKHdjPiNzuE011WfHUUWxrzw7tpHk4mITqNBntMq36ddG2M48V5m8INkyys10a8CyRDVOE/s16000/tristans.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Thayne and Tristan (left), Tristan Young and Landon Patterson (right)</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I Googled her (Tristan Young) story and not only was she selected homecoming queen, but her and a previous transwoman homecoming queen at the same high school, Landon Patterson, were honored by the Kansas City Council, which issued a resolution dedicating LGBTQ History Month to both women (click <a href="https://glaad.org/kansas-city-area-transgender-homecoming-queens-recognized-for-making-lgbtq-history/">here</a> to read all about it on the GLAAD website).</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is old news from last fall, but with all the transphobia closing in on us these days, it did my heart good to read about the support our trans sisters received from their community – especially in an area of the country that is not known for trans friendliness. Hurray for our side!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And in case you missed it, please visit my <a href="http://www.femulate.org/2024/03/take-action-now.html" target="_blank">Saturday post</a> all about taking action against the anti-trans legislation now in the works across the good ol’ USA. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzVYG3f_Hnaa4087GIciEp6JNncG7t2KpLdajvT7nU9E5DKpQYeYdc45hyfN4tTAXiRFQ3zbTYCCrgNQ443q_6k8kd-Vvq9CdfcBAB8eEyJZb5TUFsHqV8GS6ROXTdaKhoF6v23HqmoKjf6MfKWoDWcoVOG7mlFs8JQixl9Y_BPAF0LYS6AL5bxWEtg0L9/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzVYG3f_Hnaa4087GIciEp6JNncG7t2KpLdajvT7nU9E5DKpQYeYdc45hyfN4tTAXiRFQ3zbTYCCrgNQ443q_6k8kd-Vvq9CdfcBAB8eEyJZb5TUFsHqV8GS6ROXTdaKhoF6v23HqmoKjf6MfKWoDWcoVOG7mlFs8JQixl9Y_BPAF0LYS6AL5bxWEtg0L9/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9AZsSsm0U_fEWIZPqoH9Z4mh-nM7z6-NQuAaU7toH1AnQOObl5Kz7mGV0IAVtnDHw_So0-eW1n7VTBTJBz16zIZXWTCXa9clljsQymbj1Hu5pCd5xZTaRHeC02gXewaZZ87qQyURWISacaM8liWoax5Ofo5El9OsI-5SzptHKkeesP4seQD37yMI8oNdx/s776/Paige%202024-03-05.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Source: Paige" border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9AZsSsm0U_fEWIZPqoH9Z4mh-nM7z6-NQuAaU7toH1AnQOObl5Kz7mGV0IAVtnDHw_So0-eW1n7VTBTJBz16zIZXWTCXa9clljsQymbj1Hu5pCd5xZTaRHeC02gXewaZZ87qQyURWISacaM8liWoax5Ofo5El9OsI-5SzptHKkeesP4seQD37yMI8oNdx/s16000/Paige%202024-03-05.png" title="Wearing Paige" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wearing Paige</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Vsd70eGTU84vklP8xzEE9T6E8JlPDXapI2SGiw-hjoYxrQcxwXlAAxmsKClzWA3d4wDOeHvOgD7LRjRsucxhyNZw-sErJX7WoYwuCOkPLcvH35iWBQw8oLUB5bjdfL2yHNyD2ThTJ0EfX54yghDkE3_Z6lNIcGyo8uzYXSRYccfMj6bJB-15y9Ohdlw2/s300/before%20-%20after.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="300" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Vsd70eGTU84vklP8xzEE9T6E8JlPDXapI2SGiw-hjoYxrQcxwXlAAxmsKClzWA3d4wDOeHvOgD7LRjRsucxhyNZw-sErJX7WoYwuCOkPLcvH35iWBQw8oLUB5bjdfL2yHNyD2ThTJ0EfX54yghDkE3_Z6lNIcGyo8uzYXSRYccfMj6bJB-15y9Ohdlw2/w200-h145/before%20-%20after.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHeGyi0LEgqGBFFXppJLE26_NdnS7ml9bYtALXF5gVPzDjCKpHkc54tg6j5Robn5eS-HOakitQ_2fgyTngM4RFylgslHxXbIjiFt_RGNldDR6goZ_qXz4tNXMqmy5oAspP_p39_yC42HnBVchopWFyguaACgCXh_c1fk0FBaWBIeb8sts_kjPSfEx6TXa/s1069/NZ%20FIs%20WWII.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="918" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHeGyi0LEgqGBFFXppJLE26_NdnS7ml9bYtALXF5gVPzDjCKpHkc54tg6j5Robn5eS-HOakitQ_2fgyTngM4RFylgslHxXbIjiFt_RGNldDR6goZ_qXz4tNXMqmy5oAspP_p39_yC42HnBVchopWFyguaACgCXh_c1fk0FBaWBIeb8sts_kjPSfEx6TXa/w550-h640/NZ%20FIs%20WWII.png" width="550" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">New Zealand soldiers </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Ralph Dyer, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Douglas Morison and </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Harold Robinson (boy photo) performed as female impersonators in Kiwi concert parties in the Pacific and Egypt during World War II. (The two on the right, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Morison and</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Robinson,</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> switch positions in the girl photo.)</span></b></div></div>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-55243675232427222362024-03-06T00:00:00.046-05:002024-03-06T07:50:26.217-05:00Prom Time<p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlam2IWXMAZ15TOriA6tjzugaw2_sAwxqBD8MEwW7ayvyL1nVg2SW0OaEOFAY1b5ZOC3H7xwod1N2tbqf5bVnDDe18ywoksBSm4gWEyncv949qRp-U8Bu1FqzxFkRCGxF2Tq6_GIKe0OxVAJWuYIgQ74LY_gryZl6j1oTvDiM0_pyuRahMx4zkGwj4sGx8/s869/promm%20dress%20shopping.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">Wearing Boston Proper</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGJXi29xP9uqAC7fuOaNTDZQ2SIrpA_fbVev1Rd2wDWPFviIE0mbtyULsDRAoN4RedHklNx8EoyCP7Q8EP-cPY1n1VMBES6sSRP_rP3cZoAfju2w3aHC4BxaZfd5yQkDOBdjnI2WC5IJGXQZdu_gropg-D1yw0FRQPW86rAffV-Jsf-coJcjQYnGqge7FZ/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGJXi29xP9uqAC7fuOaNTDZQ2SIrpA_fbVev1Rd2wDWPFviIE0mbtyULsDRAoN4RedHklNx8EoyCP7Q8EP-cPY1n1VMBES6sSRP_rP3cZoAfju2w3aHC4BxaZfd5yQkDOBdjnI2WC5IJGXQZdu_gropg-D1yw0FRQPW86rAffV-Jsf-coJcjQYnGqge7FZ/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46qVSIPetphOPP_mmwWsFA-GxWiZzy1AV5HmhzDlR5vuotMNYSP_1A_nlD5_ee_0cojLH6N1KvJAGl6E1fvoN6gCJDAq-MIwkJ7fcSts5FOwZpdxrMQrp27fr3x_YvVxkrQyqUyJj2pHZxQLkfsS2cAvyyx7rejWHcidVwOmPCAO5ag1SdDj44JmESAT2/s778/julian-eltinge-cold-cream-ad-color.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Julian Eltinge" border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46qVSIPetphOPP_mmwWsFA-GxWiZzy1AV5HmhzDlR5vuotMNYSP_1A_nlD5_ee_0cojLH6N1KvJAGl6E1fvoN6gCJDAq-MIwkJ7fcSts5FOwZpdxrMQrp27fr3x_YvVxkrQyqUyJj2pHZxQLkfsS2cAvyyx7rejWHcidVwOmPCAO5ag1SdDj44JmESAT2/s16000/julian-eltinge-cold-cream-ad-color.png" title="Julian Eltinge, world famous professional femulator of stage and screen" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>I'll have what she's having!<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Eltinge" target="_blank">Julian Eltinge</a>, world famous professional femulator of stage and screen</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-88753115510130216972024-03-04T00:00:00.088-05:002024-03-04T00:00:00.137-05:00The Women<p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I first started going to Hamvention back in the late 1970’s, there were very few female attendees. But since then, I have seen more and more women attending Hamvention each year (and I have done my part by attending as a woman since 2010).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The women I have encountered at Hamvention have embraced me as a member of their gender even those who are familiar with my roots.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">👠👠👠</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A woman I had never met before and who is the wife of a prominent ham, came up to me after the awards dinner ceremonies when I was awarded the Special Achievement Award. She introduced herself and then asked me if I prefer being called “Stan” or “Stana.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Once that was settled, she went on and on praising me profusely saying what an inspiration I was and how brave I was to do what I do. Then she added that the women at her table were very impressed with my makeup and wanted to know if I gave lessons. And then she invited me to her home. She lives 20 minutes from me, so I accepted the invitation and wait for her to get back to me to confirm a date.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">👠👠👠</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">One female ham I have known for many years and who is very familiar with my roots, lives in Connecticut, but I usually only see her in Ohio at Hamvention. She staffs a booth near my booth and we always meet up at one booth or the other to chat and catch up, as was the case one Friday morning at Hamvention, when she stopped by my booth. After talking for about ten minutes, she had to go, but before she left, she said, “By the way, you look beautiful!”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was speechless, but managed to squeak out a “thank you.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then she added, “I really mean that!Ú</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">👠👠👠</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Now that I had been accepted as a member of the women’s club, I decided to join the Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL), which bills itself as “an organization for women with amateur radio licenses and like radio itself, extends to women all over the world.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So I moseyed over to the YLRL booth, where I was greeted as an old girlfriend and encouraged to complete their membership application. The three women staffing the booth couldn’t have been nicer and willingly accepted me as a member of their organization ― even one of the women who must have been familiar with my roots because she congratulated me for my award having seen my photo and bio in the Hamvention program.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">👠👠👠</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With all the recent malarkey about bathrooms, I was a little nervous about using the women’s restrooms during my trip, but I threw caution to the wind and used the facilities that corresponded with my presentation. No one called me on it and some of the women I encountered in the restrooms, smiled and/or greeted me with a “Hello,” so I guess they felt I belonged.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">👠👠👠</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The booth across the aisle from my booth always hires two or three 20-something women (classic “booth babes”) to hand out stickers and literature during the convention. They always seem surprised that my booth has a 60/70-something booth babe (me), but they seem to accept me into their club. They were very friendly and were willing to chat about the biggest booth babe pitfall ― wearing high heels. For what it's worth, I was still wearing my heels long after those young whippersnappers switched to flats!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And so it goes..</span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">I Believe Dept.</span></u></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In my youth, I purchased a bunch of paperback collections of <i>Ripley's Believe it Or Not!</i> comic strip. As a budding trans youth, I was fascinated by a particular Ripley strip about a crossdressing pool shark named Frances Anderson. I had long forgotten about her until an article about her appeared in a recent <i>Them</i>. Click <a href="https://www.them.us/story/frances-anderson-trans-pool-shark-19th-century-essay?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=them&utm_mailing=THEM_Weekly_030224&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0f0f3f92a404695d3841&cndid=17690853&hasha=2878961e1abed60443da26cfeef96516&hashb=a883f6c8080f2a7406050141230e17ea7ccaa0e0&hashc=28744072c238d60437dc8df5751d75b7a6e03a07565a981383f47fc6bdf5187d&esrc=subscribe-page&utm_term=THEM_Daily" target="_blank">here</a> to read all about her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><u>Where the Action Is Dept.</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In case you missed it, please visit my <a href="http://www.femulate.org/2024/03/take-action-now.html" target="_blank">Saturday post</a> all about taking action against the anti-trans legislation now in the works across the good ol’ USA.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnl12mqT2c06j-_RizKc1m0g7C_gWZBr26gKjjd6Tx5EtmbQns_1MxE3Bx_DK_M38NBpJH_JIIq8qsxZS1Rck4zKHShHTAwtRdIAM2T2IVNqqtIaYOVEwKB5WdTyahHlgUdCglGnPJioB0z4bLQXGNm3IqMG1B4-f-tE7HK0SYBKSUHAX3j07PyKo4sLrq/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" style="clear: left; 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font-size: medium;">Wearing Ann Taylor</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvi-1CydLOhGVjQ8Mr1lGpFS0z6jy2wWiEEGbO_f2_P60fzix6lqyBwnIWhfcyuxxWfVxgNwwSs4qkEFMUhhHolM10mGZZ0WhScNyH8wRVhRzmjFBe9XL8BasawN3P_77-NqQaa5EygEUf0JQajzYLD4K-E6q7yQwPiYs4Q5HLm-4scKPGfDebwhNx4qU_/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvi-1CydLOhGVjQ8Mr1lGpFS0z6jy2wWiEEGbO_f2_P60fzix6lqyBwnIWhfcyuxxWfVxgNwwSs4qkEFMUhhHolM10mGZZ0WhScNyH8wRVhRzmjFBe9XL8BasawN3P_77-NqQaa5EygEUf0JQajzYLD4K-E6q7yQwPiYs4Q5HLm-4scKPGfDebwhNx4qU_/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOjL-G4LMClPHDmdJO0Us4p9zz2DUgRB6bnmcSbzNDkS-NVcig5eLCTL4AbRgqNYGCCaTqvA-bmJLQeBjOwRVKIW2_IH7ZQz_IbBq-cCkoSRcIqrrZJirPjvPYoKpaxc6exkp_L8LudbEzjlrmTyY-kaeUaqAgF5FDNvd8qTClSUin2uC_via7NrwH5jx/s781/frances%20anderson.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Frances Anderson" border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOjL-G4LMClPHDmdJO0Us4p9zz2DUgRB6bnmcSbzNDkS-NVcig5eLCTL4AbRgqNYGCCaTqvA-bmJLQeBjOwRVKIW2_IH7ZQz_IbBq-cCkoSRcIqrrZJirPjvPYoKpaxc6exkp_L8LudbEzjlrmTyY-kaeUaqAgF5FDNvd8qTClSUin2uC_via7NrwH5jx/s16000/frances%20anderson.png" title="Frances Anderson" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Frances Anderson</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-4368419552346213942024-03-03T00:00:00.028-05:002024-03-03T00:00:00.131-05:00Tucked or Untucked?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">Wearing JustFab</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizb29K05uP5kd_lKJ0C86FGlgqS1U90D_lWQ4jRTcj-Dk99rEvxIDigkBnv8q6ZVQTEXUhC1VE3TrQETAd3GFolU0Olu9QrnN4k8OtiLgmhSVwmJfoYHA_XXbtKBkOxryo2e5NzL73y3PDyHpLde9a0yjsQcTnql0V2pPS1kY0CYIm8U3fwaNmwEtzbr0X/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizb29K05uP5kd_lKJ0C86FGlgqS1U90D_lWQ4jRTcj-Dk99rEvxIDigkBnv8q6ZVQTEXUhC1VE3TrQETAd3GFolU0Olu9QrnN4k8OtiLgmhSVwmJfoYHA_XXbtKBkOxryo2e5NzL73y3PDyHpLde9a0yjsQcTnql0V2pPS1kY0CYIm8U3fwaNmwEtzbr0X/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizb8-J_yfSsEOvv6GiJl5JA69JAgMjkWWsjayBgtb2AdbMunIwK2deJBWU_Rb_oWivkMtyhePhzNAIZDMF2p4CfqlEcxJxSZb1DfDIQKJPWrAXAm9TjbMyKCm_OYCnaBA4RkERSaBBxZ1uPWKrUquFYxdRDNrEfXnL1YDpbitxoOJb7N1-LroThOSL4n5i/s600/Jonny%20Beauchamp%20-%20Katy%20Keene%20-%20tv%20USA%20-%202020.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Jonny Beauchamp" border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizb8-J_yfSsEOvv6GiJl5JA69JAgMjkWWsjayBgtb2AdbMunIwK2deJBWU_Rb_oWivkMtyhePhzNAIZDMF2p4CfqlEcxJxSZb1DfDIQKJPWrAXAm9TjbMyKCm_OYCnaBA4RkERSaBBxZ1uPWKrUquFYxdRDNrEfXnL1YDpbitxoOJb7N1-LroThOSL4n5i/s16000/Jonny%20Beauchamp%20-%20Katy%20Keene%20-%20tv%20USA%20-%202020.png" title="Jonny Beauchamp femulating on television's Katy Keene." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jonny Beauchamp femulating on television's <i>Katy Keene</i>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-2983471281847529442024-03-02T12:00:00.002-05:002024-03-02T12:00:00.238-05:00Take Action Now!<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhl49HTe0rgqDaoA3iGHjiUf3kEM0ua4_4iWiLZOndjmTmGNSBiunbg-KtbjU1usNPImamTj7w7A0Rk1YP38mtnUFJ42ZL13-w-nXC5_N5URwGppR1jcr3JKcJqgWtpbpQva0bqqrmrn9TDnaUJy8pt4hOtlB4K4_iVeq9YOU1e4ZpCgMUEs4ez2X56tsT/s600/Nat%20Center%20for%20Trans%20Eq.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="600" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhl49HTe0rgqDaoA3iGHjiUf3kEM0ua4_4iWiLZOndjmTmGNSBiunbg-KtbjU1usNPImamTj7w7A0Rk1YP38mtnUFJ42ZL13-w-nXC5_N5URwGppR1jcr3JKcJqgWtpbpQva0bqqrmrn9TDnaUJy8pt4hOtlB4K4_iVeq9YOU1e4ZpCgMUEs4ez2X56tsT/s320/Nat%20Center%20for%20Trans%20Eq.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">In the past few years, we’ve seen an alarming increase in anti-trans legislation. Already, we’ve seen hundreds of bills in 2024 that attack our community, from our access to healthcare to our safety in schools. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s why we’ve revamped our State Action Center, in partnership with the Transformations Project, so that everyone who cares about the trans community can make their voice heard! At the Action Center, you can find the bills that are moving through the legislature in your state, learn about their impacts, and contact your legislators. Your voice matters so much - and we have to tell these legislators that their actions are unacceptable. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">TAKE ACTION NOW</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/80122355/458432110/-1265061122?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9UU00vTkNURS8xLzEwMzk3OCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICI0YTEyYWRmNi0wZmQ4LWVlMTEtODVmOS0wMDIyNDgyMjM3OTQiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogInN0YW56ZXBhQHNiY2dsb2JhbC5uZXQiDQp9&hmac=umancks5PI3Tng-o8hn6JzqdIiWf9C8C6Gjm2Pv2Q0g=&emci=3e8e514f-0ad8-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=4a12adf6-0fd8-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=133233" target="_blank">Find your state on the Action Center now</a> and tell your legislators that bills which attack our community are flat-out wrong. And share these action alerts far and wide! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you so much for speaking out. The more we raise our voices and build trans power, the more we’ll fight back against these anti-trans extremists. No matter what, we won’t back down – because our trans community deserves safety, joy, and the brightest possible future. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sincerely,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The National Center for Transgender Equality</span></p>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-16296184108267044312024-03-02T00:00:00.028-05:002024-03-02T00:00:00.133-05:00As the Tables Turn<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlp-hMAjssxibZhwo2mxl21An5qecUyIH8kDw9-MXK1eGS7tdk2sHIZ-_Y5uShcj3Wj-fRpLG4-Hvmnr0-wzxtM_2oC2h7bHWc7nk1JM-KwVoE5y5U0lNtCA9oKBVTNzJLZ2LVAkVNsVEzQo4JrQ5Lu1R3SGoF29644BoP7QBSIMcHtVQMZAm5Nw9jQi1/s664/new-masculinity%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlp-hMAjssxibZhwo2mxl21An5qecUyIH8kDw9-MXK1eGS7tdk2sHIZ-_Y5uShcj3Wj-fRpLG4-Hvmnr0-wzxtM_2oC2h7bHWc7nk1JM-KwVoE5y5U0lNtCA9oKBVTNzJLZ2LVAkVNsVEzQo4JrQ5Lu1R3SGoF29644BoP7QBSIMcHtVQMZAm5Nw9jQi1/s16000/new-masculinity%202.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMouKLuwxC70OOHI8ZOgt5FPBrXwIOgegMno_-Erw1cvDKoZUY_CEguBc1pRn2S7n0-bszvDbHqkZ73AlibNKkxrCekCIuxRmCAokGOklijFnmm6ayWi_ryooRRJeKu4gOnSdb8eiQiz8LLRjnq_EWv7LQsRPe3uXYmWmwYkcTzVmZ0gWjX0dnu6P2JZX/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMouKLuwxC70OOHI8ZOgt5FPBrXwIOgegMno_-Erw1cvDKoZUY_CEguBc1pRn2S7n0-bszvDbHqkZ73AlibNKkxrCekCIuxRmCAokGOklijFnmm6ayWi_ryooRRJeKu4gOnSdb8eiQiz8LLRjnq_EWv7LQsRPe3uXYmWmwYkcTzVmZ0gWjX0dnu6P2JZX/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN7O-IWhQ_T90pgPHomJwgtJUaED5U6uFWiji-DcYNwVus9JaKoqMhZUnnyCSb6-hYIO6cq2bdEzsJwOe4LJ03V0KRAN7qAVpXvEUCCsTQeTWDwe8Wk4aziOmfUx_rHQzWndS-h_0x1wVC7QKmkqTTukTUu6V8p94PL0APQHYTjdNlbd1UST1w0X28kQIJ/s925/Venus%202024-02-22.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Source: Venus" border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN7O-IWhQ_T90pgPHomJwgtJUaED5U6uFWiji-DcYNwVus9JaKoqMhZUnnyCSb6-hYIO6cq2bdEzsJwOe4LJ03V0KRAN7qAVpXvEUCCsTQeTWDwe8Wk4aziOmfUx_rHQzWndS-h_0x1wVC7QKmkqTTukTUu6V8p94PL0APQHYTjdNlbd1UST1w0X28kQIJ/s16000/Venus%202024-02-22.png" title="Wearing Venus" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wearing Venus</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMFduLsixb1yJQDxPx5LZJDngIxX90RTUdBWBXT0hAzKvdDbhuWQK_kt5Av3nth4Umeu0NjC4df2614fmFCvPnWNcUXp7r9T0sxZVNgZd-MewHJ3fyCAtANDUoQHNliX5ttRH34gbqsxSPe6OYr2mLFinUEM6mCWL1Kf9wMkK751Nk6BFTRwjDEIYi-7l/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMFduLsixb1yJQDxPx5LZJDngIxX90RTUdBWBXT0hAzKvdDbhuWQK_kt5Av3nth4Umeu0NjC4df2614fmFCvPnWNcUXp7r9T0sxZVNgZd-MewHJ3fyCAtANDUoQHNliX5ttRH34gbqsxSPe6OYr2mLFinUEM6mCWL1Kf9wMkK751Nk6BFTRwjDEIYi-7l/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpVUWh-IAXP0c7MkhyphenhyphenAuTGVNq0ugxilWubqcUgLzAQTpbIIqRiYsE1kjCS85kOHfqSO8nCpS_zZKvJ7WoIoMH79rvYN24KJjlQHAKZSCa9YwI0HfOSVr-Rv7Rd0D3wfP1KY6qq_PfOhvHgjr5kTW9sA2CrLAGRUdF09KOUF1Hd43y9JQJwW7TJzwTLoURV/s600/Michael%20Andrews%20-%20Hard%20Ticket%20to%20Hawaii%20-%20film%20USA%20-1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Michael Andrews" border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpVUWh-IAXP0c7MkhyphenhyphenAuTGVNq0ugxilWubqcUgLzAQTpbIIqRiYsE1kjCS85kOHfqSO8nCpS_zZKvJ7WoIoMH79rvYN24KJjlQHAKZSCa9YwI0HfOSVr-Rv7Rd0D3wfP1KY6qq_PfOhvHgjr5kTW9sA2CrLAGRUdF09KOUF1Hd43y9JQJwW7TJzwTLoURV/s16000/Michael%20Andrews%20-%20Hard%20Ticket%20to%20Hawaii%20-%20film%20USA%20-1987.png" title="Michael Andrews femulating in the 1987 film Hard Ticket to Hawaii." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Michael Andrews femulating in the 1987 film </span><i style="font-size: large;">Hard Ticket to Hawaii</i><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span><br />Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGndw5f9gec" target="_blank">here</a> to view this film on YouTube.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-13270731207777999652024-03-01T00:00:00.033-05:002024-03-01T00:00:00.381-05:00Meet the Civilians<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strike></strike></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strike><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXYBzBlN4L1ulu5dgK38MzobL3FJqtm-bGoQ4C1DuX6e8K3m1rRMyIt8jOplcjG6U17tWCn2a_5kfTQm5Fle1fT39xfXWAPCYny-MxeS3aqTOsUm191LWJau2ymMwR9id3tRgzXNrVO_0ytl690qYW_IQPHb66cEEPHWn-kfIKg3VImIia-F9xzfLdz2ty/s892/2007-03-23.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="600" height="491" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXYBzBlN4L1ulu5dgK38MzobL3FJqtm-bGoQ4C1DuX6e8K3m1rRMyIt8jOplcjG6U17tWCn2a_5kfTQm5Fle1fT39xfXWAPCYny-MxeS3aqTOsUm191LWJau2ymMwR9id3tRgzXNrVO_0ytl690qYW_IQPHb66cEEPHWn-kfIKg3VImIia-F9xzfLdz2ty/w330-h491/2007-03-23.png" width="330" /></a></strike></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>This post recounts one of the first times I staffed a booth and interacted with civilians.</i></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I attended True Colors Conference, a day long conference for school-aged GLBT youth at Central Connecticut State University. My support group had a table at the conference to distribute literature and to interact with the attendees. I volunteered to staff the booth from 9AM to 4 PM, which meant getting up at 5 AM to get dressed and drive to the university before the conference actually began.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wore my new wig, black knot front dress and mid-heel pumps. I thought I looked rather lovely and felt wonderful especially since according to the morning weigh-in, I was down to my “playing weight.” I drove to the university and arrived at our table at 8:50 AM. I set up the table and had everything up and running as the on-rush of people began.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This was a potentially tough crowd – mostly high-school aged kids. There were also adults – teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, etc. The adults were very respectful. Many that passed our table without stopping smiled and some said “Hello.” Those who visited our table were pleasant and interacted with me without any issues. Some even complimented me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The teenagers acted in a similar manner while I staffed the table, but when I walked around, I attracted more attention. I assume that while I was seated, attendees took me as just another middle-aged woman staffing a table, but when I stood up and walked around, my six-foot two-inch stature alerted some that I was not what I seemed to be while I was seated. Nobody did anything disrespectful (after all, this was a GLBT crowd), but I could not help noticing the extra attention.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I could try and convince myself that I am just so ravishing beautiful that people dropped everything to watch me pass by, but who would I be kidding. I <i>was</i> dressed more over the top than the average woman in attendance. Most of the women wore slacks, trousers or jeans. There was only a handful in skirts or dresses. So maybe my outfit was what attracted some of the attention.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I had a long talk with a 28-year-old woman, who was trying to convince me that I could wear women’s slacks and still crossdress. I don’t know if she was hinting that I might blend in better wearing slacks or whether she was just discussing women’s fashions. She could not understand why I had no interest in crossdressing in </span><span>women’s</span><span> slacks (my point being that I might as well dress in boy mode if I wear slacks). She also hinted that I was wearing too much jewelry.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the table next to me were two 20-something women – recent college graduates named Jeanette and Jen, who were asking folks to sign a petition advocating the separation of church and state (where do I sign?). They were very friendly and we talked a lot during lulls in the crowd. Jeanette had some questions about crossdressing and I gave her a mini-education, while telling her my life story. She was very sympathetic. They were sad when they learned that I would not be staffing our table on Saturday.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I had lunch with two girls from my support group, and <a href="https://www.namolibrennet.com" target="_blank">Namoli Brennet</a>, a Tucson-based trans/genderqueer songwriter, who has been touring the country since 2002 when she released her first CD, “Boy in a Dress.” </span><span>Namoli performed at the conference and also conducted a workshop. She is a very nice person in person! </span><span>Funny thing is that I am familiar with the song <i>Boy in a Dress</i>, but I did not connect the song with her, the person with whom I was breaking bread. </span><span>It was the first time I ever rubbed elbows with a rock star, so I guess I wasn’t used to associating a singer on my iPod with a real live person!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I received a lot of compliments at the conference, which just made the day so much nicer. Two were very memorable: One middle-aged woman, who I thought was one of the best looking attendees I saw all day, came by our table, smiled and said I looked very nice, I blushed. Later, a couple of high school girls came by our table and when I spoke (using my boy voice), they both were startled and looked up from the literature on our table. One of them then said, “Oh, my God, you’re beautiful!”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And so it goes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaGwt3yrA4BeIwHlzxXe5XelrjkCtTzE8xMNeIOLPQazjMQ6U2oPIYfJgGpayP__zqHhdO7u9jomjzgMQ3UJ-qhJg-yMT1MZs4XQsJbUNqMgGduMw39KsI_RJ1DzFHfCFJUQOkCE2UQPwWzoZa4VpASKOEfPP-g-4mTgu1KMFw3Z1p6w8vqojKWMWagI2d/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaGwt3yrA4BeIwHlzxXe5XelrjkCtTzE8xMNeIOLPQazjMQ6U2oPIYfJgGpayP__zqHhdO7u9jomjzgMQ3UJ-qhJg-yMT1MZs4XQsJbUNqMgGduMw39KsI_RJ1DzFHfCFJUQOkCE2UQPwWzoZa4VpASKOEfPP-g-4mTgu1KMFw3Z1p6w8vqojKWMWagI2d/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaoJc4HCM-nj7jVT_P8KC8ClWcSGjgvFcngGAVVCQjXqyPVZZQh7Ve4DK2Dl_2l9nemLV2973V1yA5FwrK4K5gPuBO8HE11PBwNsWBjEHAnQ0nX8UOMv2Aqny80rKU0GaRp-lpdcZsaX1WwzCQDUMy_DK9BkVi99mIGSmEKpkAKpLjkvgbeNH2Ub-mq0Q/s750/Paige%202024-02-29.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Source: Paige" border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaoJc4HCM-nj7jVT_P8KC8ClWcSGjgvFcngGAVVCQjXqyPVZZQh7Ve4DK2Dl_2l9nemLV2973V1yA5FwrK4K5gPuBO8HE11PBwNsWBjEHAnQ0nX8UOMv2Aqny80rKU0GaRp-lpdcZsaX1WwzCQDUMy_DK9BkVi99mIGSmEKpkAKpLjkvgbeNH2Ub-mq0Q/s16000/Paige%202024-02-29.png" title="Wearing Paige" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wearing Paige</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Buster Keaton" border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcrbY9xh2wQzwfNz-G9bje-T4fnnnx2cj0FF-iSR7UWTZYYGlcy0Q46ZrzL9eXzr-kvFDu7f08wRQqF07ZJCIoECvDd0xulOusXQvGMpOKxA7UxkajPxwr6FerYvF-gtQfrIRm7nLdHZIsETq0ntEs6jaiWH-izDDHcizoTiCG0XO8bL5uctdTXXpYNuwj/s16000/Buster%20Keaton%20-%20The%20Playhouse%20-%20film%20USA%20-%201921.png" title="Buster Keaton femulating in the 1921 film The Playhouse." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Buster Keaton femulating in the 1921 film <i>The Playhouse</i>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p></div>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-15823605018484864732024-02-29T00:00:00.045-05:002024-02-29T00:00:00.257-05:00Old Lady is Better than No Lady<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mTZW8cipy_JGNW-s6Mfjdu0VSEMtsRLMmxMG_4A7HJSa2kZmNdD5jVqj_GKRsJLY9zN84ib7kBG4RLdmAqdmayvBfDIXHTXh-EeqHt3reV-zPSske1N0rwtGV_440ZyixM1z-OVjQkjvFaJ60fPzru2-alCMmVc6nMUlZ9FbtyEUfqbp1L4kE73W0Q42/s600/elderly.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mTZW8cipy_JGNW-s6Mfjdu0VSEMtsRLMmxMG_4A7HJSa2kZmNdD5jVqj_GKRsJLY9zN84ib7kBG4RLdmAqdmayvBfDIXHTXh-EeqHt3reV-zPSske1N0rwtGV_440ZyixM1z-OVjQkjvFaJ60fPzru2-alCMmVc6nMUlZ9FbtyEUfqbp1L4kE73W0Q42/s16000/elderly.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I turned 50 years old, I wondered if I would still be femulating when I retired. I assumed that when I reached retirement age, I would look so old and unattractive that I would not want anyone (including myself) to see me <i>en femme</i>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This June, I will have been retired seven years and I am still femulating no matter how old and unattractive I have become. Old lady is better than no lady and I look forward to continue femulating just like the gentle men in the image above.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Back in the 1960s, my grandparents were all spending their seventh decade on the planet Earth. My grandmothers dressed like most of the other women their age, that is, they dressed like “old ladies.” Fashion-wise, they made no attempt to compete with the younger generations. Their fashion sense reminded me of a line from the <i>Saturday Night Live</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aVxNH6iN9I" target="_blank">advertisement parody</a> for Mom Jeans, “Get her something that says, ’I'm not a woman anymore, I’m a Mom!’”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Things changed and by the time my mother reached her seventh decade in the late 1970s, 60-year-old women were dressing more stylishly than their mothers had in their seventh decade... stylish enough that this girl was still borrowing stuff from Mom’s wardrobe when her Social Security checks began showing up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Things kept changing and today, 60 is the new 40, 70 the new 50. People are living healthier and thus, longer lives. Reaching retirement age today does not have the same connotations as it did in the 1960s. I recall that American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T52426dGkKM" target="_blank">commercial</a> about a woman of a certain age who knows her way around miniskirts and can run in high heels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Admittedly, not everyone my age fits that description... not even me. I seldom run even in flats, but I typically walk wearing heels, my hemlines seldom gets acquainted with my knees and I plan to dress my “age” for the rest of my life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7aA_HAS5LF6oYdJkq_5QZ4_QAH7OlIye9Y_WADb_ZfIvZjQ6Yw-FOFMvKrteN3lAuOVQxPfUcBgzgbxOTlZx0RzJZ6pX7giLgsPVS7qwqqebeoQiU3CWvOmPSGrqiIt5GAx6gZATGV46Vom2RyTGT9sEPE3HNmsg3LU6hPkgp4I_X27cpN-x074GwnqD8/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7aA_HAS5LF6oYdJkq_5QZ4_QAH7OlIye9Y_WADb_ZfIvZjQ6Yw-FOFMvKrteN3lAuOVQxPfUcBgzgbxOTlZx0RzJZ6pX7giLgsPVS7qwqqebeoQiU3CWvOmPSGrqiIt5GAx6gZATGV46Vom2RyTGT9sEPE3HNmsg3LU6hPkgp4I_X27cpN-x074GwnqD8/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Harvey Korman" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKZ4OcjyQlILJExhIU6YuxgBLjgv6D_jjE6P60xyI1UF_j-_X-_fYFp9kOD67k3iWAm5YeCfkxS3UPeP4-Mgcvb1qMKPO-01Broht75eOaVMLUOJNYw2J-XQk0Ltu0LDEScd6SUMxSkJxzga0A0hUBGg7pawF4VZy5m-J_H4MP-pFpBxE4VXHPZHKS2ok/s16000/Harvey%20Korman%20-%20TCBS%20-%20tv%20USA%20-%2019xx.png" title="Harvey Korman femulating on television’s The Carol Burnett Show." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Harvey Korman femulating on television’s <i>The Carol Burnett Show</i>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-66506336742408731582024-02-28T00:38:00.000-05:002024-02-28T00:38:14.557-05:00A Perfect Match<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">Wearing Piazza Sempione</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMj8F-s2wwj_AuMOlGfIaJF41RAU9wvPsM3uwmZsioaHT5M4hMzv_TUVms3xoxP0pAl8Sp0ulLdYi1M5Gk1aTOPsUF6NT8bt66k2cof6_xaFcLzPFmiFWQfE2p_mQQbtzl5yItbzJYlMNhkmUn9d5SQf0zBO0RKiWjHI3hKTSlncun3-AYnXAIFk6fFlR/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMj8F-s2wwj_AuMOlGfIaJF41RAU9wvPsM3uwmZsioaHT5M4hMzv_TUVms3xoxP0pAl8Sp0ulLdYi1M5Gk1aTOPsUF6NT8bt66k2cof6_xaFcLzPFmiFWQfE2p_mQQbtzl5yItbzJYlMNhkmUn9d5SQf0zBO0RKiWjHI3hKTSlncun3-AYnXAIFk6fFlR/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyID8XJKJFUUIf9kiseYbel6nTQuURvsl5JNEV212C-F-XUvQmQlKda_e3QcHioJcprKAnJs2zRa80HaRdSm8PzhlkpO34YolG2TPhLdM-fBZek_zlBkEZYn3tMoOTLlcsLeEfcXQkuSkhXq-TXhnYMIg8EAZ_fBeI7nZ_ED3t-ROmz4LpXXxyyFn9Vl1/s960/Stas-Fedyanin-androgynous-model.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Stas Fedyanin" border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyID8XJKJFUUIf9kiseYbel6nTQuURvsl5JNEV212C-F-XUvQmQlKda_e3QcHioJcprKAnJs2zRa80HaRdSm8PzhlkpO34YolG2TPhLdM-fBZek_zlBkEZYn3tMoOTLlcsLeEfcXQkuSkhXq-TXhnYMIg8EAZ_fBeI7nZ_ED3t-ROmz4LpXXxyyFn9Vl1/s16000/Stas-Fedyanin-androgynous-model.jpg" title="Stas Fedyanin" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stas Fedyanin</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-65145478851131684532024-02-27T00:00:00.033-05:002024-02-27T00:00:00.241-05:00From My Childhood’s Bookshelf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Red Skelton and Broderick Crawford" border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_3l2n8xvjRwbCjR_ANMBothVb4F2zqClr2yxGNDK4h1Ak3N0U4lbFLcOK9QU7ZcWKIqPdb2QaetwKEM0reAOvSMDl8A4RO-xogQiVErayFD2ui0C5Ur4r8tQZIni2pbPpySWq6nDFXNpnY-wbdELiZkBmqififVelssOXcGw21LpoFgT3fk1RbGu5q0A/s16000/Red-Skelton-and-Broderick-Crawford%20color.png" title="Red Skelton and Broderick Crawford at a Hollywood star drag gala, circa 1950." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Red Skelton and Broderick Crawford at a Hollywood star drag gala, circa 1950.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-31296795878056603422024-02-26T00:00:00.196-05:002024-02-26T00:00:00.138-05:00Acceptance by Women<b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiCwF1pb-ea3KIvLZOcxd0mt0Z001-W9xYomyMup81iUZDsqjX5pJ2P4s-Z5s1IQd2jgtIyfvar0I8xTxed8NPO40U93sgtzjN6XExZfZku6ouHVCzKAJL-eB8YGfWUQxxyIod3Mz1w-lR8gDk1MuR4QMNvSuIGSSF0U6vfQpL6c_4bvMUFAfSsTqyXKc5/s624/acceptance.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="600" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiCwF1pb-ea3KIvLZOcxd0mt0Z001-W9xYomyMup81iUZDsqjX5pJ2P4s-Z5s1IQd2jgtIyfvar0I8xTxed8NPO40U93sgtzjN6XExZfZku6ouHVCzKAJL-eB8YGfWUQxxyIod3Mz1w-lR8gDk1MuR4QMNvSuIGSSF0U6vfQpL6c_4bvMUFAfSsTqyXKc5/w355-h369/acceptance.png" width="355" /></a></div>By Kim</span></b><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After reading your recent notes about acceptance by women, I thought you might be interested in a perspective a female friend offered some time ago. I don’t know if others will give any credence to her thoughts, but maybe they’ll have some resonance. For context, I’ve dressed all of my life, began to venture out of the house in my 40s and seem to pass very well. My experiences are similar to those of any middle-aged woman.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the time of the conversation, I was about 50 and had frequent business trips to the city where my friend lived. When possible, we would do typical things two women might do together – have lunch, shop, visit museums. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Because she sometimes would not be free, however, I wondered how I could meet someone else who would care to spend time with someone like me. To that end I browsed the “women seeking women” section of <i>Match</i>. After looking at a number of profiles, I noticed that many women described themselves as being in their 40s, recently divorced, having children in college or otherwise out of the house, who now were identifying themselves as lesbians. This puzzled me: had they simply denied their desires for most of their lives or was something else going on?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I know what follows below expresses broad generalities, but I think it gives a general spirit of why some women may not only be accepting of us, but actually looking for someone like us.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I asked my friend about these profiles and she said something I never had considered. She explained that many of those women were not lesbians, but in reality, were looking for someone with an inherent and pronounced feminine soul. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She went on the explain her thinking: many of those women had been married to men with whom they had little to no intimacy – either physically or emotionally. The husband made all of the important decisions without asking for her input. Worse, if she expressed an opinion, he might ridicule or demean her. Their sexual relations were quick and one-sided and the leisure time that they might have spent together as a couple was used instead for the husband’s outings with the boys.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My friend continued: with the kids now out of the house, a woman with this history had the freedom to pursue a very different kind of relationship. And what would she seek in that new relationship? Sharing, genuine sharing, of ideas, feelings, activities, intimacy. A relationship where two people talked about life and supported each other. A relationship where the two partners shared common interests – fashion, cooking, gardening, whatever the case may be, and spend time together rather than each going their own way. And rather than quick, impersonal sexual relations, she could share intimacy that was more tender and loving.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My friend continued her thoughts by saying that the problem was that many of these women weren’t aware that someone like us existed or if they had some general awareness, it hadn’t occurred to them that someone like us might be a very good match. On one hand, she would have a male “beard” for occasions where she wished to present herself as being in a traditional marriage while at other times, she would have the female partner who fulfilled many of her desires in a relationship.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I met such a woman in my 50s. She had been married twice and those marriages had many of the characteristics described in the <i>Match</i> profiles (we did not meet that way). Although she was not specifically seeking someone like me, she found that my femme persona provided much of what had been missing in her relationships. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We’ve shared a very full life as two women while I’ve also preserved my male persona for work and other occasions where it is necessary. We were married as two women, we’ve gone on long holidays as two women and as opportunities permit, we have all kinds of other outings together. Our home is tranquil and loving and after nearly two decades of marriage, there’s every indication we’ll continue to live happily ever after.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I don’t know if others will agree with my friend’s perspective or how much generality it might have, but I’ve always thought her insights were worth serious thought. And there you have it.</span></p><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7ODYPzMfGg9lrVKclOsCL7IqWaMzpWxLbA_lWkumSkUK7jFZnpzi4dvBqeCC-c3E_ZlvJSixIJwru7qhrmq3PGVmczNp7UAfjTDGM1JYW6fQt9vbCUMrnLjAvVmcfVhcn2yYyzgEWu7SugCSSfwdS35I2M60HYF6oCB44qTZ8T9-cEt7fNtVgK1woQn8/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7ODYPzMfGg9lrVKclOsCL7IqWaMzpWxLbA_lWkumSkUK7jFZnpzi4dvBqeCC-c3E_ZlvJSixIJwru7qhrmq3PGVmczNp7UAfjTDGM1JYW6fQt9vbCUMrnLjAvVmcfVhcn2yYyzgEWu7SugCSSfwdS35I2M60HYF6oCB44qTZ8T9-cEt7fNtVgK1woQn8/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Piotr Gawron-Jedlikowski" border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Tp6QXKpXlLkKbqP2hrvggZv-qklCkkqjgZKmRVUy8AIWUc6JLKGJJ9xWfLPqgOVeQGEFWIn2KJ0q7FIwdNT1UWE-CNO_25wlucW6nMnsO6zpltxG3mA7CkbFrIATvA5D4RQYKzDo8PO762rFuAAFyA6cYPQJ45XrTSWAk_Ix40eR0yZC8JBPyUKvVT3b/s16000/Piotr%20Gawron-Jedlikowski%20-%20Magdalena%20Naroz%CC%87na%20-%20Twoja%20Twarz%20Brzmi%20Znajomo%20-%20tv%20Pol%20-%202021.jpg" title="Piotr Gawron-Jedlikowski femulated Magdalena Narożna on Polish television’s Twoja Twarz Brzmi Znajomo (Your Face Sounds Familiar)" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Piotr Gawron-Jedlikowski femulated Magdalena Narożna on Polish television’s <i>Twoja Twarz Brzmi Znajomo</i> (<i>Your Face Sounds Familiar</i>).</span></span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMkGEYhdlE" target="_blank">here</a> to view an excerpt of this femulation on YouTube.</span></b></div></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-76826332420475419582024-02-25T00:00:00.041-05:002024-02-25T00:00:00.127-05:00Just Average<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbz_THaOcVVlcuafJEApt9eTVLUO3OYd3H0Kvwf4lpn95MFrhtHdztMScd6de3e3Z55W8YpZ2mCfMUQDQ_HIMKAjjnLR8oYcm4F5VKB0az-xw9JqcuVvycJ2PqVh2JII4T2Tf96d8wQD3-Eig_eKI2Bx5iGTIPGgpJi92lm0N2KoLl6myS2CY2EnkiEFUC/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMHUwOGrB8CE8QailE7BtVS0TFHQk29gpNuAO4A-OeX8ZteQ8K9w4TPjTtcrGrbWG_GouEIqbh1HnfwR-vaZmTSMWhvglsI5PPwfbRrM5DgjqWANwr9jWcNWihE4Hs2VZlq74jcz8XHhSwZk7_OVXGl_S8cwwl1puButE1vSVMS-27QCP0mHopblf2rie/s738/ann%20taylor%202024-02-22.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Source: Ann Taylor" border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMHUwOGrB8CE8QailE7BtVS0TFHQk29gpNuAO4A-OeX8ZteQ8K9w4TPjTtcrGrbWG_GouEIqbh1HnfwR-vaZmTSMWhvglsI5PPwfbRrM5DgjqWANwr9jWcNWihE4Hs2VZlq74jcz8XHhSwZk7_OVXGl_S8cwwl1puButE1vSVMS-27QCP0mHopblf2rie/s16000/ann%20taylor%202024-02-22.png" title="Wearing Ann Taylor" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Wearing Ann Taylor</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZ4a1XFCAmyOciqG2YIc1N8vIdzqiobzHbBV9qTm_H9TQGSh52wkFcPXx3ONPDCVq7p1vIDMXyIIzEMqUSx_aj4p8dHjoT8DPvjYoHop5zOsggpW4YP5Lo8Y1SmWY_Is0mFHgl7b8axxNJYTUtKF2IeEFuc8nUUgRP3CpMAke2CwPRCid_VywS1-a3I9m/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZ4a1XFCAmyOciqG2YIc1N8vIdzqiobzHbBV9qTm_H9TQGSh52wkFcPXx3ONPDCVq7p1vIDMXyIIzEMqUSx_aj4p8dHjoT8DPvjYoHop5zOsggpW4YP5Lo8Y1SmWY_Is0mFHgl7b8axxNJYTUtKF2IeEFuc8nUUgRP3CpMAke2CwPRCid_VywS1-a3I9m/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh995c8L32cNccdLRi_gSRtUMSbNeCQSWvLtM8BTXAnMDtOmh9Vt7N0168Y2V1ftiqcgTGFWDK4mlNkREYC8ShyphenhyphenmO0NEtO_KfSyOZC7AAcg_q8VWC-OMklfEPDvjrbOWwFentYB65eBR820vmWi31MtXNiK06A2xutk-x7wpBCv3Qapg4yLRvko36JBa94b/s862/Rory%20O%E2%80%99Neill%20FI%20Ireland.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rory O’Neill" border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh995c8L32cNccdLRi_gSRtUMSbNeCQSWvLtM8BTXAnMDtOmh9Vt7N0168Y2V1ftiqcgTGFWDK4mlNkREYC8ShyphenhyphenmO0NEtO_KfSyOZC7AAcg_q8VWC-OMklfEPDvjrbOWwFentYB65eBR820vmWi31MtXNiK06A2xutk-x7wpBCv3Qapg4yLRvko36JBa94b/s16000/Rory%20O%E2%80%99Neill%20FI%20Ireland.png" title="Rory O’Neill, Irish professional femulator" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Rory O’Neill, Irish professional femulator</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372432081562643074.post-82951114449909312502024-02-24T00:00:00.036-05:002024-02-24T00:00:00.131-05:00That's What She Said<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOHWeJfmFgYpKfA5ue7RITEM1xA-aLUvfGOhHLLsy7SlBQnOtbIeD3ONoeV0EOxLcJ4xZbhyphenhyphenGbfIv1Wn3UZKfwDY6pMHXiwlt6U1-j5sPA3a_BFNmMkFG8FoVULKSVu5CgpfVzmoBZ0adwJEurwqCQvLnKDlxTzFd4CQuj6fvuLUC43Fe8piBaM3lnDsN/s1024/better%20as%20sister.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOHWeJfmFgYpKfA5ue7RITEM1xA-aLUvfGOhHLLsy7SlBQnOtbIeD3ONoeV0EOxLcJ4xZbhyphenhyphenGbfIv1Wn3UZKfwDY6pMHXiwlt6U1-j5sPA3a_BFNmMkFG8FoVULKSVu5CgpfVzmoBZ0adwJEurwqCQvLnKDlxTzFd4CQuj6fvuLUC43Fe8piBaM3lnDsN/w562-h562/better%20as%20sister.png" width="562" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX3Y2gkvOYsjkEiQEx6TunEUW7-KPBha_O7QdZfSd0FDWTM2VYbxApbr7N70OelKQeUYe6I-H71MAkZhsezDpMP5KOOYOwcTbwy7Kw_wKNNAXWPzP435tgdVArvsYjPR0dCt_XP56stw3Dgpbhe1k4OuqD01GQ95j2nQuK27US9WOWQLkALyLgASUKRDIA/s350/femulate-her-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="48" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX3Y2gkvOYsjkEiQEx6TunEUW7-KPBha_O7QdZfSd0FDWTM2VYbxApbr7N70OelKQeUYe6I-H71MAkZhsezDpMP5KOOYOwcTbwy7Kw_wKNNAXWPzP435tgdVArvsYjPR0dCt_XP56stw3Dgpbhe1k4OuqD01GQ95j2nQuK27US9WOWQLkALyLgASUKRDIA/s16000/femulate-her-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzncSV3KzBAtRq87Jp64OrXFN55UwV1lJyA7BnnNjhV__F-C_cp59tvL9m6oApSlmfvtNcw1WoWlayl0XNwYAC4uvplD6LVuEXEizWczsSXql1qqZA3IaTZ0EBy-R3puClez0LmRnf_tb8h-9-l_gme7AWuecB9ROy5DHeWmk6uh2HrIK1UyLTe_6p-z2/s904/BP%202024-02-23.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Source: Boston Proper" border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzncSV3KzBAtRq87Jp64OrXFN55UwV1lJyA7BnnNjhV__F-C_cp59tvL9m6oApSlmfvtNcw1WoWlayl0XNwYAC4uvplD6LVuEXEizWczsSXql1qqZA3IaTZ0EBy-R3puClez0LmRnf_tb8h-9-l_gme7AWuecB9ROy5DHeWmk6uh2HrIK1UyLTe_6p-z2/s16000/BP%202024-02-23.png" title="Wearing Boston Proper" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wearing Boston Proper</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTn5STAdLJpgTBcWq-uUnWWYfPNITZhFtfvGUPIkx7KXZTWZ6dKWmRe4FAHjgYpnc85Km96uYNVfp5zkimO1u4qgppE-Ao7-jwJFxMgdEgYYmiDMmOY8lfg_kBkg8SnOizyf8XB0zLNgphyKRtg8Xbld9QdWTChigBBWfcR1OnQZqTzB83oYmfRmDSLLSL/s350/!femulator-new-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTn5STAdLJpgTBcWq-uUnWWYfPNITZhFtfvGUPIkx7KXZTWZ6dKWmRe4FAHjgYpnc85Km96uYNVfp5zkimO1u4qgppE-Ao7-jwJFxMgdEgYYmiDMmOY8lfg_kBkg8SnOizyf8XB0zLNgphyKRtg8Xbld9QdWTChigBBWfcR1OnQZqTzB83oYmfRmDSLLSL/s16000/!femulator-new-new.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzsdYsM30OUxThcbuWhxUmpJgifq6q9IzpmQn_ckNBrXRnK_iGzSXTAOiv3NKgXK8n9JBGOC0j9mRIt-re2fFzajifBkU19-5gzsF5AxtFn6D6Ajffy4rhgle2_CxxsqhT4-CFdxf9jW1lnDtWAq_aQhiv110V1bWtqDIkamUTxYYChU5RWNtISbBVvvv6/s600/Tracy%20Jordan%20as%20Star%20Jones%20-%20SNL%20-%20tv%20usa%20-%20nnnn.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Tracy Jordan" border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzsdYsM30OUxThcbuWhxUmpJgifq6q9IzpmQn_ckNBrXRnK_iGzSXTAOiv3NKgXK8n9JBGOC0j9mRIt-re2fFzajifBkU19-5gzsF5AxtFn6D6Ajffy4rhgle2_CxxsqhT4-CFdxf9jW1lnDtWAq_aQhiv110V1bWtqDIkamUTxYYChU5RWNtISbBVvvv6/s16000/Tracy%20Jordan%20as%20Star%20Jones%20-%20SNL%20-%20tv%20usa%20-%20nnnn.png" title="Tracy Jordan femulates Star Jones on Saturday Night Live." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tracy Jordan femulates Star Jones on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Stanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.com0