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Consolidated Fantasia Fair Diaries.



Return to the Second Half of the Year

June 28 th

Had a very busy week, COS meeting Wednesday night. On Thursday, an outreach at Connecticut Department of Mental Health and that night the uniTy meeting.

The COS meeting was the last meeting of the year and we had total of nine members and guests show up despite the hot and muggy weather. We had no formal meeting agenda, just a coffee klatch.

Thursday afternoon I went to an outreach in Hartford just down from the state Capital at the department of Mental Health. There were four of us on the panel to discuss transgenderism to caseworkers, staff and interns. I felt good after the forum, it is always nice to be able to get our message across to health care workers. The audience was very attentive and asked a number of good questions about our concerns with health care. One lady said that she had planned on staying for only an half hour but ended up staying for the for the full ninety minutes.

That night I went to the uniTy meeting in Springfield and got home a little before midnight, this made for a very long day.

On another front, COS has had a booth at the Hartford Pride for a good number of years. But, this year is in doubt because we just found out that this year we need to have insurance in order to have a table at Pride. This is almost impossible for organizations like us, I just hope that we can work something out.

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June 15 th

Another nice day yesterday, the Twenty Club had their usual turnout and also a couple of new faces. At the COS meeting we had one of the largest turnouts of the season twenty people, including a couple of spouses and four guests. It was one of the first times that all of the food was gone by the end of the meeting. The guest speaker was from Gender PAC and talked about Gender Lobby Day that was held in May in Washington D.C. She was a very good speaker and I think that from the comments afterwards everyone enjoyed her speaking, I know I did. She also talked about the law in Connecticut and what our rights are and how the Connecticut Human Rights and Opportunities Commission ruling has affected us. Even though no one has tested the ruling in court, it has been affective because all of the cases of discrimination have been settled so far by just showing the ruling to the companies.

Between the meeting three of us went to the same pizza restaurant that I went to last Thursday.

June 13 th

I went to an excellent forum entitled "A Public Education Forum: On Gender Identiy and Expression" last night that was held at Wesleyan University and was sponsored by the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund and the Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition. The moderator for the forum was Jennifer Levi an attorney from Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders ( GLAD ). The forum was quite good and had wide variety questions from the audience. Many of the people there were of course connected with the GLBT community, but others were there to learn.

I arrived early and took a seat down near the front and a little while later a woman sat next to me with her two teenage daughters. She started talking to me saying she saw the flyer for the event at the school where she taught and she thought that it would be interesting. We talked for awhile, I went into my Gender 101 mode, and she seemed that she was genuinely interested in learning about transgenderism by the questions that she asked during the forum. She wasn't the only educator who came to the forum others were there and they asked many questions of the panel.

The other thing I was proud of was the fact that I went at all. Those who have been following my diary know that I am rather shy in going out in public by myself. Well not only did I go, but also I went by myself not knowing if anyone else that I knew would be going to it. However, it turning out that I knew about a half a dozen or so people who went to it. Afterwards we all, about ten of us, went down to a local pizza joint and had dinner. I was glad that I decided to go to the forum, it turned out to be a very good evening.

June 4 th

Sunday night I went to the Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival again. I went mainly to see "Georgie Girl" and "No Dumb Questions" but of course you had to sit through all the other movies in order to watch them. "Georgie Girl" was shown at the matinee an hour of other movies just to see the one I want to see. One of the movies was about female body builders, which just wasn't my cup of tea and the others were not too bad. It just that I won't have normally going and seen them.

But, I liked "Georgie Girl", it was about a transsexual ( Of course. ) who was the first transsexual ever to get elected to a national office. She started crossdressing, working in Drag Queen shows, later she was a prostitute, then did "B" movie and television shows. Then she received the GOFTA Best Actress nomination in 1987. Later she went to a rural conservative part of New Zealand for classes that the government was offering, while there she was elected as a councilwomen to the city. Finally she was elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 1997. In 2002 her meeting the Queen of England. Georgie Beyer is quite a remarkable woman.

The other movie I wanted to see was "No Dumb Question" which is about Uncle Bill first visit as Aunt Barbara and how the family dealt with it, especially their three daughters ages 11, 9 and 6. It was a very heartfelt movie about all of the questions that the girls wanted to ask and how they felt about their transsexual aunt.

I would recommend both of these movies, it you ever get a chance to see either one of them, do it. If you have Cineamax "No Dumb Questions" is going to be on shown on June 18 th

The other evening movies were just so so. "21" was ok, but the other movie I didn't particularly the other movies.

Between the movies I planed on going out to dinner but no-one wanted to go, and the restaurant I wanted to go to turned out to be closed. Rats!

May 31 st

Last night I when the Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival at Trinity college and saw "Tipping the Velvet". It was a very good movie judging by the audience reaction I think that mostly everyone else did also. The movie was about a Victorian era lesbian who fines here identity, the movie was a three-part mini-series that was produced and shown on BBC. It was one of their highest watched mini-series.

I meet up with five other members of COS and we all sat together. After the movie they had a reception which I stayed for a little while and left around 11:30. I was a little nervous walking back to my car at that time of night in Hartford. Even though it was near Trinity, I still had to walk a block back to the car because I got there so late.

At the reception a girl approached me and said she was in one of the classes that I did an outreach at, it was kind of nice that she remembered me. Of course how many six-foot blonde TS are there? Anyhow, it was nice that she said something.

May 29 th

We had a real good turn out last night, fifteen members and two guests for the COS meeting. I got there a little late to open up because we had a server thunder storm just when I was getting ready, the lighting and thunderclap were simultaneous. Somehow I didn't think it was a good idea to be taken a shower at that time. I think that the power lines out in front got zapped because a circuit breaker in the house tripped. I guess that free pizza really brings them out. And did the pizza go fast, I think everyone starved themselves all day. I think that this was the best meeting all year. It got awful quite while everyone was eating, but afterwards we all socialized.

Talking to a couple of friends they mentioned that they had already made their reservation at the B&B ( Carpe Diem Guesthouse ) for Fantasia Fair. So I just made mine tonight also.

Tomorrow night I am going to the opening of the Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival at Trinity College. Last year we all had a good time at opening night and enjoyed the reception that followed the movie.

Also a group of us are going to the Sunday matinee, then dinner and the evening showing at the film festival.

May 16 th

I when out to dinner last night with several friends, two couples and another friend. I always enjoy going out to dinner; it is always a relaxing time. Good food, good wine and good friends go together nicely. I had a Caesar salad, Crab Cakes and a Mango Sorbet. Last night the restaurant was crowded with mostly straight couples, which is unusual for it normally it is most gay and lesbian couples and we would be the only transgender group there. But no one batted and eyelash.

However, I did notice one couple was looking at us. Not hostile or anything like that, just kept glancing. After the couple they were with left, he got up and came over. Well it turned out it was one of our members in boy mode. I didn't recognize him at all until he got close. He said he was jealous and wished he was with us.

I got home around ten thirty and then I had to take off my make-up before going to bed.

May 11 th

Had a good day yesterday, I when to the Twenty Club meeting and then to the COS meeting. At the Twenty Club meeting we had eight people at the meeting, including a new face that stop by. We talked about the Oprah shows and I liked the discussion that we had about it, we all thought that the shows were done very tastefully.

After the meeting I went with a friend over to a COS member's house for dinner and then we all went to the COS meeting. There we had a guest speaker who is a psychosexual counselor who talked about "Intimacy in Transgender Relationships", the talk was interesting and different from our usual meeting topics. We had ten members and two guests show for the talk, from the comments after the talk I think most of the people enjoyed her presentation.

May 9 th

Wow! On Oprah this week she had two shows called "The Husband Who Became a Woman". The first day's program was about Jenny Finney Boylan a transsexual and who transitioned when she was in her forties. The next day's show had amoung others, Noelle Howey who wrote the book "Dress Codes: of Three Girlhood's- My Mother's, My Father's and Mine". As usual Oprah covered the topic with her high quality, the shows were very tastefully done. But, what impressed me was that on Oprah's Discussion Board on her web-site, boy did the comments come flying in. She had over 1100 comments as of when I am written this, if you look at other programs for the month you will see numbers like seventy or eighty comments per show and I think one show did have around three hundred comments. But, none of them anywhere near these shows.

The comments could be broken down into basically two groups ones that are supportive and are trying to understand and the other group strongly opposes anything that they don't understand on religious grounds.

All I can say is thank you Oprah.

May 3 rd

Had a good time up at the Northampton Pride, I went up with two friends and spent the day there. We got there a little after one o'clock and left a little after six. The weather co-operated and it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day with the temperature in the middle sixties. We wandered around the booths and meet many friends and acquaintances. Both uniTy and Sunshine Clubs had tables there.

After awhile one of the friends that I drove up with and myself walked back to town and went shopping. My other friend that I drove up with ( I know it makes it a little awkward to tell the story with using any names, but I just don't think it is right to use their names, even just their first names. ) wanted to stay and listen to the bands and speakers. We wandered around the stores on Main St. visiting different boutiques, I bought a green embroidered top for $15 that should go good together with a new cotton gauze skirt that I got.

We then went back to the pride festival and meet back up with our other friend that we left at the festival, then we all walked back to Main St. to a Mexican restaurant for supper. There we bumped into a girl that we knew from First Event and we joined her for supper.

Parking TicketIt was a pretty nice day except for one thing, the city of Northampton gave us a little going away present, a parking ticket. That is the first time I ever heard of having to pay for parking on a Saturday and I wasn't the only one who got a ticket, just about every car in the parking lot had a ticket on it. But the good news about Northampton is that they are very Trans friendly. Walking around town was also no problem. Neither the stores that I went into to look for clothes nor the restaurant that we ate in gave us any problems. I am planning on going back again many times just to shop and walk around, however next time I will put money in the parking meters on Saturday.

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May 1 st

I went on another Outreach today down at a local university to talk to a Human Sexuality class. A couple that I know from the Twenty Club, also another Twenty Club member and myself gave presentations to two classes. We were split up into two groups, the couple took one group and the other Twenty Club member and I were the other group. I did have a good time and the classes did go over very good judging from the comments that they made. The students got a lot out of the classes, as one student said in their comments, "I thought we were going to meet Ru Paul, but instead we meet just normal people." Another student wrote, "I now see that it isn't a choice that they made but something that comes from deep inside."

So hopefully we made the world a little more safer and a little more understanding of us.

I other news, I got an e-mail about going up to the Northampton Pride Day Festival this weekend. I told him I was still planning on going up there on Saturday, now if only I can talk another friend into going up there also.

April 26 th

At the COS meeting Wednesday we watched the HBO movie "Normal" Boy, does that hit close to home. That driving force, whether it's the need to crossdress or the need to go all the way and have surgery. It is something so strong that we are willing to give up family or friends. It just about tears us apart and it leads some of us to suicide.

The problem is I have seen it happen to some of the members of COS, Twenty Club and uniTy. I have seen families torn apart. I have also seen friends that it just tears their insides out with anguish. It made me stop and think and I don't have a spouse like some of the members do. I can only imagine what that must be like.

Those of us who are different, those of us who walk another path, those of us whom society calls "Not Normal". This is a heavy burden to bear, a heavy cross to carry. I ask myself every day do I want to continue down this path? So far the answer has been yes. I don't think I can give it up. It is such a part of me, it is who I am.

On Thursday, I didn't go to the uniTy meeting in part because they were also showing the movie and also I had some errands to run after work.

Today was the Twenty Club meeting, it was interesting. We talked about moving ahead at your own pace, that some people can transition in a year and some have to take many more years to do it. How you must feel comfortable with yourself. I have said the same thing many times before, don't let someone else talk you into either coming out or transitioning it has to be what you fell comfortable with. We also talked about how to get your insurance to cover the cost of the prescriptions and office visits.

This coming week is going to be a busy one, on Thursday there is an "Outreach" at a local college and on Saturday would like to go to the Northampton MA. Pride.

April 13 th

It has been a busy week. On Thursday I went up to the uniTy meeting, there they showed the Learning Channel program "Sex Change" and after the showing tape there was a discussion. After the meeting adjourned and some of us went to a coffee shop. When I got home at eleven-thirty I found out that I had left my pocketbook at the coffeehouse. So on Friday I had to drive back up to Springfield to pick it up. This basically shot what I was planning on doing Friday night, my taxes.

On Saturday afternoon I went to the Twenty Club meeting. The meeting was pretty good, a lot better than the past couple meetings. They had thirteen members there, some of whom I hadn't seen in about a year. So we had a lot to catch up on. She has a Toyota hybrid car and I am thinking of buying hybrid car. She get around sixty miles to the gallon around town and about fifty-five mpg on the highway.

Also during the meeting I volunteered to go on an outreach at a local college in May.

Then in the evening I went to the COS meeting. Do you think I am a meeting junky? I don't, I think it is a good way to network and each meeting has a different focus. Anyhow, at the COS meeting we had eleven people there. We had what we call the "Obstacle Course" where we video tape you as you walk, sit and pick something up. It sounds hokey, as some friends from the Twenty Club said, but when you stop and think about it many of us never see ourselves as we do those things. It is an eye opener to see yourself and it is also instructive.

April 6 th

I hate the time change, I wake up at five instead of six. But, then again I didn't go to bed until 2am. The Banquet was very good, the speaker was good, Amy Bloom the author of "Norma" and the follies was good. They were still partying when we closed the banquet room and they all then moved down to the hotel bar

2003 COS Service Award

If I may blow my own horn, I also was awarded the COS Service Award "In recognition of her tireless efforts to further the mission and sprit of the Connecticut Outreach Society and her service to the greater Connecticut Transgendered Community." It came as a complete surprise to me, I was on the award's committee and I kept e-mailing the other members of the committee about nominating someone for the awards. I kept getting no replies to any of my e-mails, I was very frustrated with them. Then during the Banquet they announce that they were giving out the awards I turned to one of the committee member and asked her what was this about, why wasn't I in on the discussion she just smiled. I should have realized then something was up, but I didn't. And then they called my name for the Service Award; it came as a complete shock.

We had fifty-one paid reservation for the Banquet which was a good turnout, including some members from the Sunshine Club and from uniTy.

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March 29 th

This week was a double meeting week, on Wednesday I went to the COS meeting that we held at a wig store and a cosmetic store in Waterbury and on Thursday I went up to Springfield for the uniTy meeting. At the COS meeting we had a very low turn out and I was disappointed that we didn't have a better showing. However those that did go had a good time and we walked away with full shopping bags. I bought two wigs and some cosmetics.

At the uniTy meeting the topic that we discussed was "Saying Good-bye". One of the points that I made was that I don't think that we ever really say good-bye. That we always have the past with us, it is something that is apart of ourselves, who we are. And I think we don't want to say good-bye to any of our friends but those who can't cope with our changes say good-bye us. We realize that just may-be they were not the friends we thought they were.

Another thing that I did when I went the uniTy meeting was I forgot to transfer my driver licenses, credit card and money to my pocketbook. I found that out during the meeting, so I was paranoid all the way back home that I was going to get stopped or in an accident.

March 22 nd

Just had a nice couple of days at True Colors, I was at the Connecticut Outreach Society table both days and I also went to a couple of seminars. The conference is for GLBT youth, professionals ( guidance counselors, social workers and etc.) and interested adults. On Friday they had a paid attendance of over twelve hundred people and on Saturday they had several hundred who attended. I went to two seminars, one on Trans identity and the other on transgender in the work place and both were very informative.

While I was manning the COS table I had one girl come up and ask about information on transsexuals, it seems her brother just came out to the family over thanksgiving. While talking to her it turns out that her went to the same college that I went to and Saturday her mother stopped by to talk.

After the conference tonight a group of us went out to eat at a Thai restaurant, it was the first time I ever had Thai food ( No comment. ).

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March 17 th

Friday night I went out to dinner with some friends and then we went a played Bingo at a fundraiser for the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective. Had a good time there and I came close to winning a couple of time.

This coming week is a board meeting and then on Friday and Saturday is the "True Colors" convention. I will be at the COS table helping out, it should be a good weekend, last year I had a good time there.

March 13 th

The outreach at a local community college today went real well today. The class was a human sexuality class and lasted a little over an hour with about fifteen students. They were attentive and asked some interesting questions of us.

The day started out with our usual Thursday snowstorm, however this time classes were not canceled. I meet the friend who coordinated the outreach at a local mall and I followed her to the community college. There was just the two of us giving the presentation because the other couldn't get the day off. We gave a brief background of ourselves and then answered their questions, of course the bathroom questions was one of them. Some of the other questions included when did we first realize that we were transgendered, what is it like to switch back and forth in gender. One of the observations that I made was that it was nice to get the doors opened for you but that on the flip side when I made a comment in a mixed group my ideas were ignored.

In other news, yesterday I had another hour of electrolysis. That is a long time to get plucked, it starts to wear thin on my nerves after a while. And tomorrow I am going out to dinner and a bingo with a group of friends.

March 9 th

Ok, maybe I was wrong. There were a number of accidents as a result of the snowstorm, however I still think that the news media hypes the storms too much.

Went to the Twenty Club meeting yesterday once again there was a low turn out. But after the meeting I went out to dinner with two members at a restaurant around the corner. I was a little nervous, it's a popular restaurant for the colleges crowd. Also there was a hockey game going on in the Civic Center so there were a number of families with their children at the restaurant.

After dinner we went over to the COS meeting where the turnout was very good, we had fifteen members and two guest. The planned meeting agenda was rehearsals for the Banquet however we mainly just sat around and socialized. It was a nice meeting, Twenty Club and uniTy meetings are so formal it is nice to just sit around and talk. Sometime you don't need support and you just need to sit back and relax.

March 6 th

The weathermen are at it again. I was suppose to have gone to an Outreach at a local community college today, however it was called off because of the snowstorm. Panic! They forecasted 4 to 7 inches of the stuff and to hear them talk it sounded like a major blizzard. So everything was cancelled, I lost a vacation day because I took the day off to go to the Outreach. If you listen to the details of the forecast it wasn't even going to snow an inch an hour, the snow was going to start around 9:00am and end around 6:00pm. The plow crews can keep up with less than an inch an hour, but the news people were warning everyone to stay off the roads. You would think that we are some southern state that only gets a snowstorm once or twice a season, not New England. This is our twenty-second storm of the season. The television stations had their news crews out at the highway department sand depots and the roadside dinners sticking their rules in the snow. However, you do get the nuts out there who thinks that they own the road as they go flying by. They are the ones who causes the accidents, if you just slow down and take it easy there are no problems driving. I wonder how much money stores lose because of the panic. The supermarkets make out like crazy with everyone stocking up on food like they were going to be snowed in for days.

Oh well, it was rescheduled for next Thursday maybe I will take another vacation day and still go to it.

February 28 th

Had a busy week this week, Monday - electrolysis, Wednesday - COS meeting and on Thursday - uniTy meeting. The electrolysis appointment was for a half an hour, but all of the future appointment I am going to make for an hour. Hopefully I will be able to stand it for a full hour.

On Wednesday I got a call from a friend, she wanted to know if I was interested in going out to eat before the COS meeting. So we stopped at a diner before the meeting and then went on to the meeting. Which I had to get there early so that I could open up. We had nine members and a guest show up to listen to a guest speaker from a cosmetic company to do make overs. She gave a good presentation and I liked her products, they appear to cover the beard without looking heavy.

At the Thursday night meeting at uniTy they also had a guest speaker and she talked about legal issues. They seem to always have a very good turn out for their meetings, they had about twenty-four people there and the group is also very diverse. Afterwards some of us when over to a coffeehouse for awhile.

February 23 rd

Had a good time yesterday, I went to the Twenty Club meeting and then out to dinner with a friend from COS, who is also a Twenty Club member. The meeting had a low turnout, six people. However, it was nice because it was a small intimate group. We didn't discuss much about TS but we had a good time talking about a whole lot of other subjects from old railroad lines to the politics of the up coming war.

After the meeting I went out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant by Trinity College with my friend from COS. I had a nice dinner and we talked about her transition and about my plans. Then we went over to her house to wait for her partner to get home and another friend from COS joined us.

Earlier in the week was the COS board meeting and I went to electrolysis on Wednesday for a half-hour appointment. I scheduled next month's appointments and made them for an hour each.

February 15 th

On Wednesday I went to electrolysis again for a half an hour, I think that next month I will make the appointments for an hour and see if I can stand it.

Went out with a friend night to the Pond House for dinner, she just got back from Florida. It was nice to go out and not have to worry about cooking dinner for a change.

February 9 th

Last Wednesday I got plucked again and I made weekly appointments for electrolysis for the rest of the month. Only 39,451 more hairs to go. It wasn't too bad the pain is very tolerable, a lot less than the laser treatments.

On Saturday morning I went over to Waterbury to line up a meeting for our COS Wednesday night March meeting. In the afternoon I went to the Twenty Club meeting, there we mostly talked about the up coming state legislature hearing on adding gender to the Hate Crime statue. A couple of the members are planning on testifying. We had a small turn out for the Saturday meeting only about twelve members.

Then it was off to the COS meeting in the evening. We had a coffee klatch with only six members showing up, however we had three prospective member stop by to check us out with one most likely joining.

Then tonight I went over to a friend's house to help her work on her web-site for her store, I been going over there each Sunday night for the past couple of months helping her. We are getting closer to finishing it up so that she can publish it to the web.

I don't know why lately we have had low turn out for the meetings, normally we had around fifteen to twenty members show upon a Saturday night. We have to find out why the membership isn't coming to the meetings. What ever the reason whether it colds, the weather, vacation to warmer climate or if it is lack of interest, I think we have to find out. Some of the members who we members longer than me say it runs in cycles. But if get a guest to come to the meeting for a presentation we need more than a hand full of members there to listen to them.

January 29 th

I went to electrolysis tonight, the appointment was only for fifteen minutes and it wasn't so bad. The worst part was pulling out the follicle and I made another appointment for next week, this time for a half an hour. I think that the laser was a little worst. It was more of a snap while the electrolysis pain was longer but less intense. She said that I have a sensitive skin and I agree with that assessment, she was using a blend and that seemed to work the best. But it takes about 8 to 10 seconds per hair.

While I was there another COS member came in for her appointment, she didn't recognized me at first because I was in boy mode, I just couldn't see going as Diana with a day old beard.

January 23 rd

The COS meeting last night had a very low turn out. Which I think was do to the fact it was in the teens outside and we had a number of members whom headed for warmer climates. We had eight members and one guest there to listen to our guest speakers who talked about electrolysis. I felt bad about not having more members there for their presentation, but they did get one new client out of it, me. I am going in for an initial visit next Wednesday. I am a little nervous about it, but I am willing to give it a shot, pun intended and I will let you know how it was next week.

January 19 th

Murphy's Law struck again, you know the one that says if anything could go wrong it will at the most ill opportune time. Well it did, when I got home from First Event, I found that the house had no heat and it was 39 deg and when the house heated up a frozen pipe let loose at 3:00am. inside. Good ol' Murphy. Not only that but I have not had a cold in over a year but I got one just before First Event, most of the time there I spent in my room coughing and sneezing. Only once in a while did I poke my head up to go to a couple of the seminars or functions.

However, I did enjoy the event and I had somewhat of a good time. I got to meet old friends and to meet some new ones. Hopefully I didn't give my cold to anyone else

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January 16 th

Went to an "Outreach" at a university last night. I went down with a friend from the Twenty Club, he stopped over and I drove the rest of the way. There we meet two others members from the Twenty Club. This was my second "Outreach" and I enjoyed it, it gives me a chance to look inward. The questions that they ask are often deep and probing, that is not say all of the questions are like that some are the typical bathroom questions. The "Outreach" also allow us to get out there and make contact with people who have never had any contact with the transgender community. Maybe some day if they hear someone talking about a "Jerry Springer" show or make some derogatory remark about us they can say that we are all not like that. Or if there is a legislative bill either here in Connecticut or on a national lever for Transgender Civil Rights they will be in favor of it.

At the end of the class the students passed in their comments on the class and the one I liked best was "I could just hug Diana".

Now it's off to Tiffany Club's "First Event".

January 12 th

It has been quite during the last couple of weeks but it seems everything happens at once. On Friday night I went to the fundraiser for Hartford's Project 100 GLBT Community Center, "Winter Fest" and then Saturday was the Twenty Club and COS meetings. Coming up this week on Wednesday, is an Outreach at a university in the southern part of the state and on Thursday it is off to Tiffany Club's "First Event".

Winter Fest was held at Trinity College chapel and featured the Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus which was excellent. If you every get a change to see one of their performances go see it. They put on a great show. We had about ten members show up at the event. Between us and one of the Imperial Courts we had about twenty-five of us gals there. Enough so that the politicians and speakers made note of the Transgender community, which I am told they didn't at last years event.

After the Winter Fest some of us went to a local coffeehouse talking until midnight. Some of the stuff we talked about are a couple of the bathroom stories I want to share with you. Now you have to understand these two girls wear their hair long are always saying that they can never pass. Well one of them was saying she was using the men's room in boy mode ( jeans, tee shirt and sneakers ) and the guys were coming in, stopping, excusing themselves and turning around and leaving thinking they were in the wrong room. And my other friend she could top that, she was also in boy mode walked in to the men's room and this lady followed her in thinking that it was the lady's room, she stopped totally perplexed when she saw the urinals.

On Saturday I went shopping with a friend in the morning, I had to get some cosmetics and a slip and underwear for First Event. Then we went to the Twenty Club meeting in the afternoon. After the meeting I invited a few friends over for dinner. Then it was off to the COS meeting where we had a guest speaker from Glamour Boutique Who talked about the art of passing. It was a very busy weekend.

See you all at "First Event"!

January 1st

Happy New Year

I had some friend over for New Years Eve last night. I made dinner for them, which they all enjoyed, I notice some of them keep going back on nibbling on the leftovers. But we made it till midnight and by that time it was very foggy out so one stayed over night. We stayed up until around two in the morning talking about hormone, electrolysis and about t being transgendered. It was a very good New Years, before I made the decision to come out I know that I never had anyone over for dinner, yeah friends came over but it was where's the beer and turn on the Patriots game. Now I get much more enjoyment out life I can be myself, not that macho guy and I never really enjoyed sports that much anyway.

On another topic, here is a column that has been past around on the various support groups that I belong to that I found interesting " The U.S. Government vs. The Transsexual Community" she makes some very valid points. Something to thing think about the next time you go into the voting booth. There is more to electing public officials then what taxes can they save me. You remember that old saying about Germany with Adolf Hitler, "First they came for the Jews and no-one spoke up. Then they came for…" , well it starting again this time it is the GLBT community that they are going after. Think about it, the next time you hear someone say that a certain candidate is going to give a tax cut. Ask them what they think about environment, about civil rights, about religious groups getting federal dollars and asks them what they think about banning abortions again. Do they want to live back in the era of Senator Joe McCarthy? Because that is where we are heading

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