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Virginia Prince's Chevalier Publications and allied mail order networks connected cross dressing and female impersonator readers through fiction, editorials, newsletters, product advertising, book notices, and society formation notices at moments when public gender variance carried social, legal, and medical risk. This archive preserves two 1962 issues of Femme Mirror, both issued by Chevalier Publications, alongside a 1970s Female Impersonator Newsletter issue centered on Suzy's U.T.T.S. organization and a Queens Publications catalog advertising gender confirming products such as wigs, clothing, femme shape-wear, informational books, and magazines. The group traces a movement from early mimeographed reader fiction and moral instruction to a more developed 1970s market of periodicals, social clubs, apparel, cosmetics, and body-form products. Trans interest publications archive. Los Angeles and New York: Chevalier Publications, Queens Publications, and others, 1962 to 1975. Archive of 4 publications: Femme Mirror Nos. 3 and 7, Female Impersonator Newsletter Vol. Two, No. Eight, and From Queens Publications 74-75. [1] Prince, Virginia, ed. Femme Mirror. Number Three. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, March 1962. Early Chevalier periodical with cover text reading "reflections of FemmePersonators," "publishers of Transvestia magazine," and "Number Three." The issue opens with Prince's "It's March, Girls." and includes fiction and personal writing such as "The Living Window" by Joyce Lane, "That One Life" by Lee Joyce, and "Martha's Path" by Lee Joyce. [2] Prince, Virginia, ed. Femme Mirror. Number Seven. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, July 1962. Early issue with Prince's editorial "People Who Live in Glass Houses." and fiction including "Good Ole Julienne," with language addressed to "girls" and "F.P.s." Prince's editorial discusses "those heterosexual persons who do enjoy clothing and other expressions of the opposite sex," and argues for tolerance, understanding, and assimilation while distancing the publication from homosexuality and public scandal. [3] Female Impersonator Newsletter. Vol. Two, No. Eight. 1970s. Issue priced one dollar, with front page columns headed "Suzy Sez." and "T.V. of the Month," naming Karen Rigg. Suzy's column states that the newsletter began in October 1973, refers to the "United Transvestite and Transsexual Society," describes a first group meeting in Minneapolis in September, and announces "A New TV/TS Society Formed," with proposed services including a newsletter, reviews, group listings, entertainment notices, and commercial listings for clothing, hotels, photo studios, lawyers, and related services. [4] From Queens Publications 74-75. New York: Queens Publications, 1974 to 1975. Mail order catalog advertising Drag magazine and related publications, with interior listings for Transvestia issues, Man, Woman & Girl by Jean Roberts, Sex and Gender by Robert J. Stoller, M.D., Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger, Conundrum by Jan Morris, wigs, false eyelashes, makeup, party pants, stretch lace lingerie, boots, and "Treasure Chest" latex forms. The catalog preserves the commercial side of 1970s transvestite and female impersonator culture, where reading material, appearance products, and body-shaping goods circulated through the same mail order channels. These four publications record the infrastructure behind mid century and 1970s cross dressing culture aimed at people who often relied on postal exchange for privacy and continuity. The 1962 Femme Mirror issues carry Prince's reflections and observations on gender and sexuality, while the other materials add the language of "TV/TS," group meetings, catalog shopping, and a broader marketplace around gender presentation and popular culture. Light toning, fold lines, handling wear, minor edge wear; overall very good condition. A compact archive linking early Chevalier Publications to the later commercial and social networks that served cross dressing, female impersonator, and transvestite readers.

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.