#303347 - The Female Impersonator No 14 Neptune
The Female Impersonator, Number 14
Neptune Productions
Belmar, New Jersey
ca. 1979
digital replica
Female impersonators, talented men who sing, dance and tell jokes on stage before audiences, do appear in this magazine, but most photographs show recreational transvestites. Much of the text explores the lifestyles of transvestites.
Sandra's Fantasy Land
In Philadelphia, a shop called Fantasy Island offers lingerie and toys for cross-dressers. The Female Impersonator editor Sandra Mesic visited the store to photograph and write about it. Pictures show her posing in nylons, bustiers, negligees and mules.
The Gallery of Greats
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Pictures show Brandel's Follies Revue, Lee Carroll, Jimmy Laine, Frisco Follies, Paulette, Brandy Lee, Dick Conners and Selena Powers. A short essay waxes nostalgia.
In those days the acts had class — more impersonators used their own voices for singing rather than simply miming to recorded music. They spent a lot of money and time on costumes that were nothing less than lavish with rhinestones, sequins and feathers. The mimics themselves were more professional in their demeanor. When off-stage they rarely wore female clothing.
In the past, the professional female impersonator rarely took female hormones to give him a female bust or softer skin. Instead, he relied on makeup, ingeniously padded undergarments, and all the tricks of makeup to achieve an illusion of complete femininity. The results were often better than we see today, although many mimics have had female hormones, plastic surgery and various implants to achieve the illusion of femininity.
As you can see from looking through these pages, the oldsters were indeed magnificent and we owe them a lot — they made transvestism familiar to the public and helped TVs get recognition. They taught crossdressers a lot about female poise, carriage and makeup. They blazed the trail that made it easier for transsexuals to cross the gender line. We owe them a debt of gratitude for being out there when nobody understood. They made transvestism almost respectable, if not acceptable to the public.
As you look through this issue of FEMALE IMPERSONATOR, you will see how the cross-dressing scene has changed through the years from the professional female impersonators to the new breed of transvestites emerging from the closet, meeting the public and getting together with one another. Perhaps we stand on the threshold of a new era, but in doing so it is good to look back and see our roots.
You Made Me What I Am Today
Randy and Buddy meet Natalie in a nightclub. After hours, they all go to her place and find out that Natalie is male.
Photos show bedroom fun that involves touching and cross-dressing with hasty wigs.
Superfriends
A comic strip on four pages. Superman meets Wonder Woman.
A Night off the Street with Our Main Man
Julius runs “a stable of drag queen prostitute call girls,” and the first-person essay was written by one of them. Pictures show the pimp engaging with two of his girls in a bedroom.
The Gallery of Greats
Mostly photographs of transvestites at home in lingerie showing off their gender duality. Some pictures show sexual situations.
And Now . . .
Pretty Danielle of California poses in frilly lingerie and high heels.
The New Breed
Pictures of cross-dressers in lingerie, mostly at home.
Classified
Eight pages of personal ads. Some correspondents provide unusual offers and seductive photographs.
The ebook contains all content of the 64-page magazine, including the Open List and advertising, in the original page sequence. Some margins, borders, walls and floors were cropped out. A few page layouts were revised.
Brightness, contrast and levels were adjusted, shadows reduced and many specks retouched. Image editing improves every photograph in the ebook version.
All new scans. Nudity.
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