Virginia Prince’s Transvestia gave cross dressing and trans feminine readers a sustained print forum during a period when gender variance was commonly met with police scrutiny, medical pathologization, family secrecy, and postal caution. These four issues preserve the magazine in its mature Los Angeles Chevalier Publications format, with recurring departments.....
Prince, Virginia. The Transvestite and His Wife. Los Angeles, 1967. First edition, second printing. 142 pages. Dark blue gradient paperback with pink text. Virginia Prince was a transgender woman and activist who began her identity expression at the age of 12. As an adult, Prince began working as a research.....
TV Clip-Sheet gathered mainstream newspaper and magazine clippings on cross dressing, female impersonation, passing, theatrical performance, arrest and public scandal for readers already connected to Chevalier Publications’ transvestite print network. These six issues preserve the publication’s method of reprinting sensational press language, with headlines including “Princeton Lads Put Show On.....
