Deborah Nicole is a TGForum member who is sharing her life story with you. She starts the tale when she was a young lad in the U.K. and takes you along through the years to her current residence in the USA. Readers of a certain age will find aspects of her story to be familiar and younger folks will gain some understanding of our history.
Liberty Storer met Bill nine years ago. He told her of his desire to crossdress and she accepted it as kinky adult fun—even his fantasies of sex with men while crossdressed. When he proposed marriage she accepted and it wasn’t until later that she learned he was putting them both at risk of STDs and other threats by acting out his fantasies in secret. Many, at this point, would walk away. In today’s post Liberty goes in to why they stay married. Keep in mind, being a rat in a relationship is a separate issue from being a crossdresser. There are plenty of crossdressers who don’t lie and cheat on their wives with men they meet online. Liberty’s story is her and Bill’s.
Lorraine Anderson, owner of The Occasional Woman custom clothing service, takes you on a trip through the spring fashion scene. She comments on what works and what doesn’t. Prepare to take notes for your next shopping excursion.
Linda has been lamenting that since COVID struck nothing much interesting has been happening in the lives of crossdressers. That is she was lamenting until one friend decided to set the record straight. The activities are there if you know how to find them and sometimes, they will find you. Last time we learned of the friend’s Friday and Saturday adventures. We now skip forward to Sunday morning.
Liberty Storer looks back at her posts since she started contributing to TGForum with a spouse’s perspective.
Liberty Storer talks with a lot women who are now, or have been, married to crossdressers. She finds that many of them have the same question. If he wanted to dress up as much as possible without restrictions from a spouse why did he want to get married?
Longtime crossdressers can suffer from “been there, done that” syndrome. After years of femme fun it can seem as if you’ve done it all and there are no new experiences to be savored. Today’s post was inspired by a conversation Linda had with a crossdressing friend. Linda recalls her friend telling her that after all these years there are new experiences still waiting out there.
A woman in Liberty’s partners of crossdressers support group tells them that she is prepared to out her former husband as a crossdresser on social media platforms. While some of the group cheer this woman on Liberty feels that might not be the best way to go.
For this Retro Rerun we dive into the TGF Archives for 1999. Cindy Martin, the editor at the time, asked Roxy du Monde to write about what crossdressing is like for those who are not under 5′ 11″ in bare feet. Ms. du Monde was 6′ 2″ in her bare feet and with high heels could reach 6′ 6″ with ease. She may have some tips for the larger girls among us that are still good today.
Linda’s friend Katherine/ Katie thought her evening in Orlando was going to be a bust. But, after an encounter in her hotel she’s ready to ditch the gay drag club scene and pull up a stool at the bar of the nearest hotel lounge.
Many crossdressers engage in hidden dressing, like wearing toe polish or feminine underwear, while they are presenting their male side to the world. Most manage to get away with feeling the pleasure of their hidden crossdressing but now and then something happens and they would be happier if they had worn tighty whities that particular day. Liberty Storer shares her CD husband’s accidental reveal.
What do you get when Chef Dina takes some conventional thinking, stirs in a half a cup of faux vintage lesbian art, folds in a dash of international lady of mystery and celebrity, seasons with some modern grandmas then bakes the dish in a 360 degree oven till done? Oh, and glazes the whole dish with a tribute to the evolution of the derrière? You get another one of the delicious house specials at Dina’s Diner!
Dallas Denny returns today with Part 2 of the history of Tapestry Magazine. It began in the late ’70s as a typewritten newsletter and became over the next decade the go-to publication for information on all things trans. Today Dallas reports on how personal ads became a part of Tapestry, and other transgender publications.
Recently Linda has been going through an identity crisis that has had her questioning her future in the TG lifestyle. She had even started working on an “exit strategy” and was considering how best to get rid of her extensive wardrobe of femme attire. And then it happened.
Someone viewed Liberty Storer’s blog on living with a crossdresser and found it nasty. They didn’t like it so much that they sent her a message outlining all the reasons it made them ill. This caused Liberty to try and imagine why someone would keep eating something that tasted bad.
Do we need exit strategies? Linda is wondering what is to become of her as her male self prepares to wind down their lives. Don’t worry! She’s not leaving soon.
Kandi Robbins is always up to something that feels like it should be extraordinary. She has been in films, walked the runway in fashion shows, and posed for magazine spreads. Today she shares her latest adventure–walking the runway in a bridal show with ten other women. Find out how that felt to Kandi and check out photos from the day and a video.
In 1998 TGF Contributor Leah Maclean wrote about her road trip into Omaha to meet some friends for crossdressed fun. That article is our Retro Rerun for today. For some reason Leah was feeling more confident on that trip and stopped several times to browse cosmetics counters looking for a certain color nail polish. She didn’t find the polish but she did have a pleasant adventure in the Heartland.
Angela Gardner takes The Breast Form Store’s Divine Collection Hera breast forms for a test ride. She outlines the experience from placing the order to unpacking the forms after they arrived, and wearing them with and without a bra. With her Hera forms attached Angela reports they boost a girl’s crossdressing fun.
Liberty Storer got divorced after fifteen years of marriage and met a new man a short time later. He was exciting, sensual, and unknown to her he was a crossdresser. That soon came out and she tried to educate herself about crossdressing in otherwise macho men. While she was attempting to cope with his dressing in private she didn’t know he was not telling her about a lot of his activities while dressed.
Kandi Robbins’s post tells us how she learned how to stop hating what she was and came to accept it. And she regrets that the years of self loathing kept her miserable and not much fun to be around. Learn how she came to not just accept Kandi but loves her whole heartedly.
Pauline Estelle ponders the many, many changes she has seen through the decades of her life. Of course there are personal changes related to aging but she also writes about the changes in the world, like the creation of computers, smartphones and the World Wide Web.
Finding the colors that go best with you isn’t always so easy when you’re just beginning to explore your femme side. You can find all sorts of methods for determining which colors of attire work best with your skin tone and it can all be pretty confusing. Lorraine Anderson has a sure fire way to quickly determine your best color match. Read on the find out what she recommends.
Julie Freeman is a significant other who has been active in the gender community for over 20 years, particularly with significant others and couples groups. Julie has contributed articles to many publications in the transgender community. This column ran originally in the Diablo Valley Girls support groups newsletter, Devil Woman. It was published on TGForum in 1997.
Kandi Robbins has had her photo taken in Times Square but today’s post is not about that. Kandi recently participated in a photo shoot that will be featured on a giant billboard in Times Square on September 8. Kandi writes about the photo shoot and gives a behind the scenes look at the process.
Pauline Estelle revisits the online fashion resource Venus. Pauline enjoys shopping there due to the large variety of styles and the ready availability of sizes. Give her blog a read and see if she can entice you into trying the site.
