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Independent trans interest zine "TV Clip Sheet No. 4" produced by Chevalier Publications ca. 1959, gathering articles on transgender celebrity, cross dressing, and gender nonconformity in the years following new international trans visibility achieved by Christine Jorgensen. The issue, produced in Los Angeles, gathers headlines, human interest archives, and newspaper photography documenting visibly trans and gender non-conforming individuals. "TV Clip Sheet" is not a conventional magazine but rather an independently distributed digest of clipped and reassembled stories, demonstrating how queer communities circulated documentation of trans femininity and cross-dressing to encourage community support and visibility. TV Clip Sheet. No. 4. Los Angeles, California: Chevalier Publications, ca. late 1950s. 8 pages on two sheets printed recto verso and bifolded; unbound. The front page carries the large typographic headline "The Amazing Dilemma Of Kenneth Johnson," credited "By Kenneth Johnson Himself," accompanied by a captioned photograph, "Kenneth yesterday at Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment in London," and a second image with the caption, "Kenneth just over six months ago. The shoulder length hair is his own." The article recounts Johnson's presentation in women's clothing, detention in a women's prison, court appearance, and press exposure under subheads including "In The Cell Then To Court Dressed As A Woman," "A Foursome Two Day Trip With Policeman," and "I Told Them So Kathleen Became Kenneth." The spread also features the headline "THIS BEAUTIFUL GAL HER 'GIRL' PAL WAS REALLY A MAN," with subsidiary text "Women's Clothes Were His Disguise," plus shorter pieces and images under titles such as "The model who fooled London." The interior pages broaden the issue's scope through additional clipped features on gender transition and impersonation, including a full page article, "What ever became of CHRISTINE JORGENSEN? By Morton Cooper," illustrated with multiple photographs and captions referring to Jorgensen's public career, and another spread with headlines such as "'Jewel Box' Reveals Mixed Array of Gems," "'Boy Meets Boy' Show Takes Over Music Box," "He's So Pretty You Won't Believe It!," "Runaway Boy, 12, Poses as Woman for 2 Days," "Christine Visits Aunt Gerd," "Christine Smiles At License Tag," "Mother Treats Her Son Like a Daughter," "Masquerade Ends: Man Who Passed as Woman for 28 Years Or More and Once Had Husband Dies at 74," and "WOMAN RESENTS HUSBAND GARBED IN FEMALE DRESS." Issued in the wake of Jorgensen's celebrity and amid a broader tabloid market for stories of female impersonation and "sex change" publicity, this issue fixes on the vocabulary and image economy through which postwar readers were taught to consume gender variance as spectacle. The juxtaposition of Jorgensen's mainstream notoriety with criminalized or comic coverage of other figures shows the unstable range of mid century responses, from fascination and glamour to ridicule and police scrutiny, all within one ephemeral publication produced for quick sale rather than permanence. Complete issue with light age toning, unobtrusive horizontal fold, and no noticeable flaws or ownership marks; overall very good condition. A concise surviving example of how trans and cross dressing subjects were edited into late 1950s popular print culture in Los Angeles. very rare this early.

Femme Mirror no. 7, TV Clip-Sheet nos. 1 and 16, and a 1974 to 1975 Queens Publications catalog or advertising booklet carry Chevalier and Queens Publications' trans and cross-dressing print culture from early-1960s reader correspondence and press clippings into a later mail-order market for magazines, fiction, books, clothing, and body-form products. Femme Mirror no. 7 prints letters from readers seeking contact and recognition. TV Clip-Sheet nos. 1 and 16 gather press stories under headlines such as "A Tale of Two Sexes," "He Was a Man All the Time," "Arrest Ends Nine-Year Masquerade as Woman," "Turns Female," "Widowed Mother of Two Was Really Boy Aged 15," and "Personality Parade: Here are some of America's Foremost Female Impersonators." The Queens Publications catalog advertises Drag, Astounding Transvestite Tales, Female Mimics, latex breast forms, skirts, gloves, and books on drag, gender identity, and female impersonation. Archive of four trans and cross-dressing publications. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications and Queens Publications, 1962 to 1975. Four items comprising Femme Mirror: Reflections of Femme-Personators no. 7, TV Clip-Sheet no. 1, TV Clip-Sheet no. 16, and one Queens Publications catalog or advertising booklet dated 1974 to 1975. [1] TV Clip-Sheet. No. 1. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, 1962. Two full pages. The issue opens with "Princeton Lads Put Show On The Road" and includes a "Personality Parade" spread naming "some of America's foremost female impersonators," including Jackie Maye, Dale Roberts, Robbi Ross, Ricki Raymond, Fin Olsen, Chunga Ochoa, Tom Harbin, Lynn Carter, Jan Britton, Storme De Larvarie, Ken Renard, Sandy Rogers, Bobbie Johnson, Dodi Daniels, Gene Avery, Dori Dor, Bob Lake, Viki Vogue, Sonny Teal, and Lynn Roberts. Other clippings include "I Tried Both Sexes," "Dennis Day as Sophie Tucker," "Dual Role for Alastair Sim," and "Nellee's No Lady But He Wears Long Skirts." [2] Femme Mirror: Reflections of Femme-Personators. No. 7. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, July 1962. Seven pages folded into a small booklet, with pen numeral "7" at the upper right corner. The issue includes reader letters and "Just Chatter" by Barbara Elin Stevens, with references to Phi Pi Epsilon, Contact correspondence, femvisits, corset shops, readers in Idaho, Poughkeepsie, New York, Texas, London, and South America, and a reader who writes, "I have acquired skirts and blouses, dresses, etc. which I wear at home when everyone is out, or on weekends when I am away with my girl friend who is understanding." [3] TV Clip-Sheet. No. 16. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, 1963. Four full pages. The issue includes Scott Young's "A Tale of Two Sexes," stamped or annotated "Toronto Globe & Mail 11 04, 1963," and a publisher's notice explaining that material was submitted by readers from many sources and reprinted as a clearinghouse. Other clippings carry headlines including "He Was a Man All the Time," "Arrest Ends Nine-Year Masquerade as Woman," "Turns Female," "Transvestite," and "Widowed Mother of Two Was Really Boy Aged 15," with another item quoting Jack Lemmon in relation to Some Like It Hot. [4] Queens Publications catalog or advertising booklet. [New York or Los Angeles]: Queens Publications, 1974 to 1975. Advertising booklet for drag, transvestite, female impersonator, and related mail-order publications and goods. The booklet advertises Drag, Rag, Astounding Transvestite Tales, Drag Life, TV Swingers, Drag Scene, Female Mimics, Female Impersonator's Handbook, Peter Underwood's Life's a Drag! Danny La Rue and the Drag Scene, Richard Green's Sexual Identity Conflict in Children & Adults, "Treasure Chest" latex breast forms, polyester skirts, gloves, and other clothing items. Chevalier Publications, associated with Virginia Prince and Transvestia, created a print network for cross-dressing and trans readers who often relied on mail, pseudonyms, reader letters, and small-circulation publications for contact. The Chevalier issues record an early 1960s readership still organized around secrecy, marriage, femme names, person-to-person correspondence, and clipped evidence from the outside press, while the Queens Publications booklet records a later commercial network of magazines, fiction, books, clothing, and body-form products marketed to drag, transvestite, and female impersonator readers. The Femme Mirror issue bears a pen "7" at upper right; the group shows folds from booklet format, toning, and light handling wear, with text complete and legible. Overall very good condition.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 2006, Keli Chevalier, never knew that a mental meltdown after returning home from war would become the turning point in her story of triumph over trauma. Keli uses powerful imagery to place you right in the middle of her families curse with PTSD and moments in war when she teetered on the verge of death and hope Determined to find meaning in her traumatic experiences and survive against all the demons of her past, she moves us in the simple plan to get up, get, dressed, and get out into life of purpose rather than pity. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.