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Then thep came lor ME . by that time there was no one VOLUME 1 NUMBER 3 CONTENTS EDITORIAL . ©©©•ooooooooooeooooeoooeooo 4 NEWS 000000900 •OQOQ99<3>QOO*<»QOQO9OQ 0QO0Q 6 TELLING IT LIKE IT IS 90©©©©00#©©©09#©00 11 ABBE de CHOISY 090990990 9-9 9999999999909 12 MISS AMERICA PAGEANT 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 13 HORMONES DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 9 9 9 0 14 THE CURTAIN RISES ON TRANSVESTISM. 16 THE SQUALLING CATS ©©©©©©©©a©©©©©© © © 9 18 MARDI GRAS 9©©00©©00.90©©©O©©O©OS>®©O0®O© 20 C OMING ili "V ENT S 0000®00000©09®c>©e0©0000 26 "VHCW POINT 099999 0909009 90990000 009 900 O 27 XjYI'TjN CARTER 990000#00999990990e990090 28 MARCH ON ALBANY o © © © * © 0 o o o 0 * © © © o © © © • 30 G ETTING TOGETHER 0 * ® * © * © . © © ® 36 BACK COVER: TONI LEE • • 000000000099 O 40 Editor Washington Area Editor Lee G. Brewster Carolyn Sommers Editor Contributing Editor Managing CHANGES OF ADDRESS Kay Gybbons NoLit# of change of address should b© uni not Laura McAllister less than fWo weeks prior to the dote change Staff Photographer becomes effective. Send the address of which Art Editor copies are now being received and the new Ed Trust address at which you wish to receive copies. Vicky West Publisher Official publication of Queens Publications QUEENS P O Box 538, NYC 10009 Advertising rates upon request. Copyright 1971, Queens Publications. 3 VOL # I NO III editorial Qo i^vWy S£iUfe QiltJ We get calls nightly from tvs and drag queens who want to know where they Recently a dear friend of ours brought can get together. We have to say we're to our attention the fact that the gay sorry, but in New York there are only clubs in New York bar drag queens. A two places that cater to the drag scene. new club that opened with the help of One is a semi-private club, the other your editor has now decided that the exclusively private. drag queen and tv should not be allow- ed. Another bar, a former tv place However, until cross-dressing is made stopped the drag, went striaght-gay legal these clubs and bars have the and now wants the queen back as bus- right to exclude the drag. We can't do iness is bad anything about it until the criminal as- pects of dressing is taken away. The How do we fight such obvious prejudice? only thing we can do is yell a lot and Should we not go back to places that try to embarass the clubs as they con- have barred us previously or should we tinue to say, "Go away little girl, we force ourselves upon them? can't allow you to stay. " 4 DTAG He’s wearing his wife's best dress Hope I win the contest! Your wife called. Are they really gays? mmt&mm , -- m Dressed for the first time. And tomorrow we’ll be back in pants 5 VOL # I NO III s NEW YORK Dr c Frank Kameny, the first homosex- remain in the background and brought ual to run for congress was questioned out only on special occasions such as by members of the Queens Liberation fund-raising. F ront in regards to his anti-drag stand. Dr. Kameny, according to an article in SAN FRANCISCO the Advocate , reputedly preferred not Producer Paul Gregory in association to have the drag queen help in raising with the American Conservatory Thea- funds for his campaign for the govern- tre, presented Dame Judith Anderson ment office c When confronted with this. in the title role of William Shakespeare* Dr. Kameny stated that it was not so. Hamlet , under the direction of William "I actually went to a drag ball and had Ball. The production opened to a three my picture taken with two drag queens, week engagement at the Geary Theatre "However, I did call the press aside in San Francisco. and requested that they not take pictures of the drag queens, as not all homosex- One of the most distinguished actress- uals were that way and it wouldnh be fair es in the English-speaking theatre. representation, " Evidently Dr. Kameny Dame Judith has long been a major fig- prefers to think that the drag should still ure on the Broadway and London stage DRAG 6 as well as in films and television LONDON: Sex change operations costing $220 each This was, apparently, her DRAG debuL . --paid for by taxpayer -- are on the in- crease in Britain, an expert in treat- WASHINGTON, D. C 0 ment of sexual deviants said. Whoever would have thought that Chris- tine Jorgensen would figure in this years He was commenting on a disclosure by election and as a result people get their a Sunday newspaper that seven men minds off the high cost of livings Spiro have been changed into women in Bri- Agnew’s apt discription of Sen. Charles tain during 1970. Godell (R-NY) as the Christine Jorgen- sen of the Republican Party was a mas- A senior official of the Albany Trust, ter stroke, a perfect followup to the a charity organization which works labelling Goddell a 'radic-lib' which with homosexuals, said, "There are to some naive, confused voters suggest- a growing number of people with trans- ed a form of sexual aberration. Chris- sexual problems seeking medical ad- tine requested an apology, and received vice, It would be outrageous if such international publicity 0 Miss Jorgensen operations were only available pri- believes that even if Vice President Ag- vately. " new does not apologize to her, he may be more careful in the future about using a private citizen’s name in political DEAR ABBY: Abigail Van Buren recently reported the letter from a mother who’s daugh- ter had fallen in love with another girl. a female transsexual, who felt her- self to be a ’man imprisoned in a wom- an's body, and was contemplating a "Christine Jorgensen" operation in re- verse, Abigail, who has been a free- thinker of late told her she must accept her daughter as she was if she loved her. She then quoted Freud, who in his famous Letter to an American Mother : "Homo- sexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness: we consider it to be a varia- Christine Jorgensen tion of sexual functions produced by a New epithet, old politics certain arrest of sexual development. " NEWSWEEK (1/4/71) ATLANTA Theodsre Roszak, author of "The Mak- The famous Centaur Club has been clos- ing of A Counter-Culture, " says "Talk ed and Mrs. P’s has halted gender im- to any psychiatrist and he’ll tell you personation acts. that one of the major sources of sick- ness in our society are men fighting TALLAHASSEE down their femininity and women fight- Several male homosexual transvestites " ing down their masculinity. held a drag-in at a gay bar in Tallahass- VOL# I NO III 7 ee, Florida which refused to allow their NEW LONDON, CONN admittance. The action was the culmi- A homosexual backed by the Connect- nation of weeks of hassle between lib- icut Civil Liberties Union, is going to erated gays in the area and the bar court to challenge the State's refusal to reinstate his which had been working with Gay Lib- drivers' license. (ED 0 eration Front of Florida State Univers- This could be enforced against transves- ity for some time. As a result of the tites, hetero or homo, that's why we must unite for bar’s discriminatory policies, GLF greater strength. ) broke ties with the bar. TALLAHASSEE: MIAMI Tallahassee police have taken a progress- ANGELA KEYES DOUGLAS WINS ive and enlightened view of transsexual- COURT BATTLE ism after arresting Angela Douglas,vho TAO founder Angela Keyes Douglas won was in the area to lecture at Florida a court decision in Miami, Fla on Dec- State University. Charged with 'dis- ember 18. She had been arrested and orderly conduct', the charges were drop- charged with 'wearing the clothing un- ped and she was released with full per- becoming to his or her sex. ' The char- mission to live as a female in the area. ge was dismissed by the judge who felt A lecture on transsexualism and trans- it was a 'bad arrest. ' Legal action a- vestism was given to Lt. Peacock, Sgt. gainst the city of Miami for restitution Beagles, a couple of policewomen who may be taken. Douglas is a preopera- discussed male chauvinism with her, tive transsexual. and the police chief. Tallahassee is Florida's state capital and Angela hopes to be able to meet the governor-e- DRAG LEGAL IN D. C e new Public transvestism is fully legal in lect, Reuben Askew (his daughter is al- Washington, D.C.