5 Miscellaneous Information & Announcements 6 Book review 7 TV News Bit & Pieces 14 Off Broadway 16 Indocrine: Drag & Dining 23 Jeri & Jean: Go to Lake Tahoe 25 Dr. Bain 27 Video Reviews: Transsexual Gangbangers - Transsexual Prostitutes
29 Russian News 30 Reflections on our images 36 Beyond the myth 45 Electrolysis 64 TV Art by Wayne Ewald 67 Hollywood Screen Queens 74 Readers Letters 86 Transvestite Slave PICTORIALS
31 Tinseltown Droptops
39 Thailand Torrid Transsexuals
49 Olivia Love
55 Sierra Ferrairo
Boy/Girl of the month
80 Jeri Jones
Special Feature Girl
82 K.M. Skylar
Special Mention Girl
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
I can hardly believe that Transformation is into its third year already. Transformation
has come a long way, and so has our fight for our own freedom. We're being heard
now, just like the Gay Rebellion a few years back. People know that we're here
to stay. In addition, people in general are now starting to know more about crossdressers.
I believe that Transformation has helped considerably because it is sold worldwide
in national newsstands. We have helped people to realize that crossdressing has
been around for thousands of years, and that we're just normal people who enjoy
the beauty of women and dressing the way we feel. While Transformation has entertained
and educated us with its many articles, it has also educated others who knew nothing
of who we are. We used to be considered perverted. Many of you even went to doctors
to try to cure your feelings, but found out that there was nothing really wrong
with you. Others of you went to psychiatrists who belittled you and tried to convince
you that you were perverted and had to stop. However, most of us now know that
these psychiatrists were the ones who needed help, not us.
I remember when I had to fight very hard to convince distributors to try Transformation.
I gave thousand of copies away to them to show them that it would sell. I flew
all over the country and met with major distributors in their board rooms to explain
who we were and why Transformation would sell. I even had to put up with criticism
from jealous crossdressers. Remember the controversy over "To Penis or Not
to Penis"? I put out a survey and got over 1,200 letters telling me to show
penises. . .and only six saying that I shouldn't. I made a few enemies among members
of the gender community; they thought that they were the leaders of the entire
gender community and what they said was supposed to be our law.
I wanted Transformation to cover all of us, no matter what our sexual preferences
are, because crossdressing has no gender or sexual bounds.
Transformation has laid the groundwork for others to follow and opened many doors
that were not there when I started this magazine. Most important, it has opened
the doors for us.
I am very proud of the work that I have done and the accomplishments that I have
helped to make for all of us. Of course, I am very proud of Transformation magazine
and the continued upgrading of each issue.
—Jeri
