Editing Cross-dressing (section)

==Publications==

===''Transvestia''===
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In 1960, [[Virginia Prince]] published the first issue of ''[[Transvestia]]'',  a magazine aimed at cross-dressers.<ref>{{cite web |last=Prince |first=Virginia |date=1952 |title=Transvestia |publisher=Chevalier Publications |location=Los Angeles |website=University of Victoria |url=https://search.library.uvic.ca/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01VIC_INST:01UVIC&search_scope=MyInstitution&tab=LIBALL&docid=alma9955531023807291 |access-date=16 March 2025 <!--Reproduction of the original from Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society.-->}}</ref> Prince funded the initial publication with a capital of one hundred dollars raised through personal acquaintances.<ref name=career>Prince, Virginia. "My Accidental Career." How I Got Into Sex. Eds. B. Bullough, V.L. Bullough, M.A. Fithian, W.E. Hartman and R.S Klein. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1997.</ref>  The first issue was published by Prince's Chevalier Publications, and sold by subscription and through adult bookstores.<ref name=richard>{{cite book|title=Virginia Prince: Pioneer of Transgendering|year=2006|publisher=Haworth Medical Press Inc|location=Binghamton|editor=Richard Elkins and Dave King}}</ref><ref>"The Life and Times of Virginia", Transvestia #100 (1979)</ref>

In 1963, the inside jacket of the magazine stated the publication as "dedicated to the needs of the sexually normal individual who has discovered the {{sic|exi|stance}} of his or her 'other side' and seeks to express it."<ref name=richard/> Rather than relying on a team of professional authors, this magazine was to be"written by... the readers" with the editor's job to be organizing and categorizing these submissions as appropriate.<ref>Prince, Virginia. (1979). "The Life and Times of Virginia." Transvestia, 1.2.</ref>
 
''Transvestia'' was published bi-monthly by Prince between the years of 1960 and 1980, with a total of 100 issues being created. The subsequent 11 issues were edited and published by Carol Beecroft (the co-founder of Chevalier publications) until 1986.

With a readership of mostly white, middle-to-professional-class crossdressers, the magazine offered, among other things, dozens of published life stories and letters contributed by other crossdressers.<ref name=hill>Hill, Robert. (2011). "'We Share a Sacred Secret:' Gender, Domesticity, and Containment in Transvestia's Histories and Letters from Crossdressers and Their Wives." Journal of Social History 44.3: 667–687.</ref>

=== ''Beaumont Bulletin'' ===
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The [[Beaumont Society]] began in the UK in 1966 as an offshoot of Virgina Prince's [[Full Personality Expression]] group for cross-dressers.<ref name="Bishopsgate-2024">{{Cite web |title=Beaumont Society Press Cuttings Collection |url=https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/beaumont-society-press-cuttings-collection |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=Bishopsgate Institute}}</ref> The society began to distribute its publication the ''[[Beaumont Bulletin]]'' in January 1968. Starting out at eight pages, it reached 24 pages by 1970. The publication referred to its readers as 'girls',<ref name="Pickett-2024">{{Cite book |last=Pickett |first=Brent |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84nxEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+Beaumont+Society%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA39 |title=The Transgender Encyclopedia |date=2024-02-26 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-5726-8 |pages=39 |language=en}}</ref> and included tips on make-up and women's clothing, especially those in larger sizes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fawcus |first=Margaret |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7i8BCAAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+Beaumont+Society%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA323 |title=Voice Disorders and their Management |date=2013-11-11 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4899-2861-0 |pages=323 |language=en}}</ref> In 1977, a new publication, ''Beaumag'', was issued which included fiction and comic writing.<ref name="MoL-2024">{{Cite web |title=Museum of London  |website=London Museum |url=https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/531220.html |access-date=2024-03-13}}</ref>  As of 2024, the society was still publishing a magazine for its members, entitled ''Beaumont Magazine''.<ref name="Pickett-2024" />

===''En Femme''===

Between 1987 and 1991, JoAnn Roberts and CDS published a magazine called ''En Femme'' that was "for the transvestite, transsexual, crossdresser, and [[Drag queen|female impersonator]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Roberts|first=JoAnn|date=December 1990|title=En femme magazine |publisher=Creative Design Services |url=https://archive.org/details/enfemmemagazine21unse/page/n1/mode/2up}}</ref>

=== Others ===

''[[Chrysalis Quarterly]]'' was [[Dallas Denny]]'s publication from the 1990s focused on gender identity, including cross-dressing and transgender issues.
<ref>{{cite web |title=Chrysalis Quarterly |website=Digital Transgender Archive |author=<!--none--> |date=<!--none-->
|url=https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/col/2801pg32c |access-date=16 March 2025}}</ref>

''[[Femme Mirror]]'' was a quarterly inewsletter/magazine of [[Tri-Ess]] begun by [[Carol Beecroft]], and catered to the cross-dresser community.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Goldberg |editor1-first=Abbie E. |editor2-last=Beemyn |editor2-first=Genny |date=2021 |title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=9781544393841 <!--isbn2=1544393849--> |oclc= |page= <!--total-pages=1040--> |url=}}{{page needed|date=March 2025}}</ref>

''[[Transgender Tapestry]]'' magazine began as the ''TV-TS Tapestry'' newsletter by [[Merissa Sherrill Lynn]]'s Tiffany Club. It was published from 1979 to 2008, and continues as an online website of the [[International Foundation for Gender Education]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=LGBTQ Publications |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8hq45dc/entire_text/|website=oac.cdlib.org|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref>

''Empathy Magazine'' was a publication in the United States focused on support for cross-dressers and their families.<ref>{{cite web |last=Slavik |first=Cathy Charles |date=1970 |title=Empathy Magazine <!--vol. 3, issue 28--> |website=Digital Transgender Archive |publisher=Empathy Press
|url=https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/z890rt48c |access-date=17 March 2025}}</ref>