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Vol. 10, No. 3 March 1994 Page 1 KJ A New View haven't been able to generate a new (matching my outfit, of course!). A by Elaine article of any kind. Plus, two months red, shoulder-length wig which LS ago I gave two of our girls interview curly in back and has bangs is my Well we had a good turn out at the forms to fill out and return and I favorite hair-style. I do prefer to style last meeting the total couunt of ladies haven't heard from them yet. So, just it myself. My activities run from was 41. We also had three new like the television industry, this TV is attending Cross-Port meetings, the members welcome to Dominque and going to try a rerun. My first interview, Barony of Northern Kentucky, the John and Tasha. We would like to with Kristine Jones didn't make it to I.F.Cj.n. to going out to bars, welcome back Donna and Myma. press in a readable form. I'm counting shopping, writing articles for the Thank you for coming and we hope on Elaine to nudge this one onto the Inner View, and meeting new people you had a good time. pages of the Inner View. in the gender conmiunily. Perhaps by April I'll have a "fresh face" As far as the arts: I love Blues, We also had some disturbing news. Jazz, Zydeco, Classical, Folk - really for all of you. Someone said the Golden Lion was almost any music. Hie paintings of closed. The truth is it closed only to the Renaissance masters (wLsh I Stay Healthy. Stay Beautiful. Avoid remodel and repair. We wish to inform could paint like Mike) and the Dutch Runners. you that it is back open but under new masters hold my interest. management. We are not quite sure My taste in movies includes T.V.I, Kristine, first let's get down what went on but Bill and Dave will anything by Peter Weir or Bruce to basics. Give us ALL of your vital not be there on the 17th as owner and Bercsford. I really like Australian signs. bar tender. film - Breaker Morant. Gallipoli (movies that rely on Joyce and I had a unique experience KJ. I'm 38 years old and I actors & scripts, not effects). in that we had a question and answer celebrate my fcmme birthday on May session at Miami University in Oxford. 10. I'm 6' 1" tall and weigh 170. 1 T.V.L Hianks for being so candid. We were well received we had an wear a size 16 dress and 11'AW Now, one more honesty test. Do you interesting time while there. The shoes. My measurements are 43-34- have a favorite gripe? people asked some good questions and 42. we hope we gave them good answers. KJ. Just one. Joyce and Bob: the T.V.L What are your preferences in, IL Duce' & Duchess of Inflexibility. say, dress/suit styles, shoes, hair, "It's my way or the highway! hobbies, the arts...you know, all the THE VIEW INSIDE: good stuff? T.V.L Kristine, how long have you by Bobbi L. been a member of Cross-Port? KJ. I prefer either a coatdress, dress/jacket ensemble, or a "military- KJ. Since March, 1991. Girls, this past month I've been style" suit (with straight or pleated hopping like the one legged tap dancer. skirts). I love off-the-shoulder gowns. T.V.L And how long have you been What with taxes and teaching and Greens are my favorite. In shoes, I coming to the meetings? dealing with my father's illness, I like a pump with a 27: inch heel Vol. 10, No. 3 March 1994 Page 1 KJ. Since March, 1991. dressed and get out of the house in witch doctor (psychologist) Now this my neighborhood without being seen was back in the early sixties. I do not T.V.I. What is your earliest by the neighbors. recall him ever making mention of recollection of cross dressing? the word transvestite or even telling T.V.L What do you imagine the me that there were many men that KJ. Of cross dressing generally - future holds for Kristine? crossdressed. my dad went to a costume party as a Shortly after I got out of the Playboy bunny. I was probably 10 or KJ. I'll probably go to the "Be Navy I was in a local magazine store 11. All" annually. And, of course, keep (we did not have the adult bookstore - Of my cross dressing - a pair of attending Cross-Port. I hope to in our town then) and I saw a my mom's pantyhose made bedroom improve the newsletter & eventually magazine with an article aaout men eyes at me. I was 12 or 13. have color printing with more who dressed as women. Well I got pictures. the magazine and it was thru that T.V.I. What is your favorite cross magazine that I found out about dressing recollection? T.V.L Thank you, Kristine Jones, for Virginia Prince and Transvestia a chance to glimpse the view inside magazuie. From there I did send off KJ. The 1993 Be All one of Cross-port's most active ladies. for some copies of Transvestia. Convention. It was my 3rd time at In one of Virginia's editorials she the Be All and seeing my old friends made mention of parents who would come home and find their teenage from the '91 and "92 Be Alls was INSIGHT #48 really a great time! It gets better each son hanging by a rope. Tliere was never a note, but the clothes that the year. I can't wait for Pittsburgh in By: Barbara Jean boy was wearing was pretty indicative •94! of what was disturbing him so much that he felt he no longer wanted to T.V.I. Are you married, or involved live. Of course out of fear of being in a relationship, and does your outcast by society, the family would S.O.know about your "sister?" Hello girls, this is Barliara back always keep this information private. with another insight for you. OK Tcxlay cxir stxicty lias Ixxxmie KJ. I have been married for six here is the question for you. How old a little more open and much better years. My wife knows. I told her were you when you first started educated on the subject today than it while we were dating that I had the crossdressing? Question two, when was back then in the sixties. But desire to do it but didn't have any did you first learn that you were not given the fact that the teenage years clothes. I had never been fully alone in your desire to crossdress? are the most turmoilous in any dressed or been out. Two and a half persons life, I wonder how many years ago, I started buying clothes for Well if you were like most of us young boys still end their lives, or Cross-Port. She accepts this part of girls, crossdressing started in the early attempt to end their lives due to me as she teens, or even younger. A lot of being crossdressers. knows I enjoy it, but she would never other factors were then involved in It is due to this one fact alone come to a meeting for fear of determining when you first learned that I have for years been an recognition. She Ls very accepting. that you were not alone in thLs desire to dress as a girl. I myself was advocate of our getting our publications out of the realm of "for T.V.L What is the most satisfying about 12 or 13 when i first started my adults only". Tliere is nothing more aspect of cross dressing for you? crossdressing, and I think I was about 21 or 22 when I first learned that that I would like better than to be there were others, or even knew that able to go to my local magazine stand KJ. Meeting peoplc.especially there was a name for this and find our crossdressing magazines, new members of Cross-Port. Hearing phenomenon. I did not have sisters, located next to publications such as their stories. Also, getting dressed for I was an only child in my family and Ms. and I^adies Home Journal. Now Coronations or other formals is fun. I would often find myself when alone we do have quite a few publications But the greatest thing is seeing first going into my parents bedroom to that could very well be put down time people & then see them put on my step mothers clothes. Of below with these magazines, with no continue to come back and enjoy the course my parents did find out. age restrictions for their purchase. meetings. Locks were put on the bedroom door Feminine, LadyLike, and Tapestry, (I always managed to find the key or are some that come to mind. So why T.V.L What is the most disturbing to spring the lock thou) and they do they remain available only thru aspect? then sent me off for some the adult bookstore or via the mail? brainwashing sessions with the local Certainly even someone like Jerry KJ. It's really tough to get Fawell would not find anything Vol. 10, No. 3 March 1994 Page 2 pornographic in these, these problem would be in us. Would we years before we find our publications magazines are so clean that we be willing to purchase our magazine on the open magazine stand, cannot even classify them as soft if it was available at an open available for purchase by anyone of pom.
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