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Today’s Retro Rerun from the TGF Archives is from the 1990s. The general public had not evolved to more acceptance of crossdressers and trans women out and about in society. Passing to avoid ridicule was important to members of the developing trans community and contributors to TGForum had advice on how to go undetected while expressing femininity in public. The advice in this article by Carolyne Woodward is still good in the 21st century if your goal is to blend in. If some of it seems silly remember to view it in context.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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if there’s one thing you can say about Kandi Robbins it’s that she is busy, busy, busy. October saw her modeling bridal gowns in two bridal shows. She was selected to be Miss December in a calendar, and she had an online conversation with Tom Hanks. Kandi is so busy that she had no time to write a blog post for TGF so she sent us photos and videos from the bridal shows
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Dallas Denny joins our New Content today with Part 1 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. It was through one of the personal ads in Tapestry that our editor Angela Gardner first made contact with other crossdressers, including JoAnn Roberts, which led to a long association with JoAnn’s LadyLike magazine and TGFroum.
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This Retro Rerun post from the TGForum Archives was the first in a series of reviews of books with transgender themes or characters. The reviewer was Elizabeth Parker and she started writing book reviews for TGF in 1997. In this post she reviews two books, one with what is surely a trans woman main character and the other that features a detective who adopts the guise of a woman to do his investigation. Both books are available through Amazon and Goodreads.
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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.
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Pauline Estelle has done some research into the definition of words commonly used in the transgender community. She shares he results of her research, along with some of her opinions, in today’s post.
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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.
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Fantasia Fair is a conference, convergence, trans event that is a week-long held in Provincetown, Massachusetts every October. This year FanFair became TransWeek. The gathering on Cape Cod has been happening since 1975. Attendees have all week to be themselves and participate in planned and unplanned activities. There are speeches, dancing, whale watching and more to fill the week. Today Rhonda Williams reviews everything that happened if TransWeek 2022.
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The Henri David Halloween Ball 2022 happened on Sunday night October 30. The event has been going since 1975, overseen by the Halloween Impresario, Henry David. We present a selection of photos from the event featuring everything from demons to angels, transgender maids to Marie Antoinette. You can find anything at a Henri David Halloween Ball.
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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.
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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.
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Linda was attending a meeting of transgender individuals interested in forming a support group in their area. All was going well until the spirit of cooperation that had prevailed in the organizational meeting was suddenly broken and ‘all heck broke loose’.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Repeat this while you look into the mirror, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!” Dina Amberle cooks up a dish that features “affirmations” and it is to die for. Then she adds more than a little bit on the biology of lips, and also whips up a connection between the attraction to Asian women and the treatment of Asian women. A refreshing sorbet of ’60s fashion clears the palate for the next course, what are the female role models that inspire crossdresser’s Halloween costumes? Find out at Dina’s Diner.
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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.
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When a TG leader has a falling out with her community is there a way to get back together? Linda tells a story that might have a familiar ring to it.
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Liberty Storer took an informal poll of women who were in or had been in relationships with crossdressers. Eighty nine women completed her survey and Liberty breaks down the resulting data in this blog post.
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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.
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Dina Amberle has been working on special menu items for Dina’s Diner. Among the tasty treats she has prepared for today we find a new opera based on the play M Butterfly which stars a counter tenor who landed a lead role by singing arias made famous by the great opera diva Cecilia Bartoli. Then she offers a palette clearing dish based on the host of the Philippines version of Drag Race transforming into Katy Perry. Special sauce like posing tips for photos, and a jazz singing female robot spice things up. Find out what other dishes you can dig into and visit Dina’s Diner.
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