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Samantha B L
05-07-2009, 08:08 PM
For starters I don't know if I should put this in the lounge or the thread for jokes,crossword puzzles and what not. I found out when I was about 14 or 15 years old that my Uncle did kind of a girlie show for several hundred boozed up lodge brothers once a year. He was the best Uncle you could ask for. He'd get me and my brother New York styled Pizza and he took us fishing and bowling. He was there for us when my Dad died.

He had been a Navy Medic or Pharmacists Mate on at least a hundred of the South Pacific and Phillipine Island beachheads and he knew how tough it can get! But as a child and then as an adolescent I was becoming interested in looking for ways to crossdress and I didn't say a word but I was a bit jealous to find out about these shows of his and he had a leopard evening dress and a Jane Mansfeild wig!


Once a year he would take a couple of hours to get cleaned up and he would actually shave most of his body hair,legs,arms,etc. He put on hose and did his nails(how did he know the particulars of how that's done I wonder? Oh well,my aunt probably showed him)And he put on makeup. He'd get dressed and he wore heels for all this. Lipstick and the whole works! He wasn't quite passable but he looked sufficiently girly you could say.




He would act as the hostess at these big beer and coldcuts bashes and greet everybody who came in at the door. He had a fem name for him/herself in these big presentations but I can't remember what it was now for the life of me but I could ask one of my cousins and they'd know!
They would hire local musicians who knew music from the 30's,40's and 50's and so the tunes tumbled down. My Uncle would go on for practically all of the evening with the help of generous amounts of Budwieser




He sang "I Want to Be Loved By You" and "Let Me Entertain You" for example. And he sometimes threw out scarfs or some boas! He died about 3 or 4 years ago under peaceful and comfortable circumstances. My Aunt who was married to him went a couple of years before he did. I don't know whether to attribute all this business to a possible tendency to crossdress running in my family(this was my mother's brother)or just so much booze and whoopie cushion silliness. And maybe I'll never know. He did the shows every year since 1955.

Sallee
05-07-2009, 08:10 PM
I bet he might have been one of us deep in the closet and that was his way out for 1 night a year

docrobbysherry
05-07-2009, 08:28 PM
Maybe I'll start a new tradition in OUR family! :heehee:

I WONDER if everyone would buy the idea that I ONLY dress up once a year, tho?:brolleyes:

Samantha B L
05-07-2009, 11:16 PM
Sallee,I've always thought CD'ing was somehow bioneural and hormonal in nature,runs in families and it just can't be helped! Of all the things you could be born with a person could do much worse than to inherit that thing they call crossdressing and I'm fairly sure it runs in my family buried back in there somehow,somewhere, so yes,definately he could have been one of us!


Docrobbysherry,You could set a precedent by dressing twice a year instead of just once. I'm sure they'll settle on that!

Sally2005
05-07-2009, 11:44 PM
October 31st is fast becoming a given for me. Too many people know I've done it in the past, so I almost -have- to do it... My response to anyone who asks about it is, it's just lots of fun and they don't have to know I practice all year for their benefit! :heehee:

Samantha B L
05-08-2009, 10:19 AM
Sally, Practice every opportunity you get! For all I know my Uncle was one of us and that's what he was doing.


Katie, I don't know how much of My Uncle's Drag Show to attribute to booze and whoopie cushion buffoonery or the possibility,which could be quite real,that CD'ing runs in my family! And a freind of mine told me once that there were many drag performers on British TV and in the British Theatre. I was in the U.K. once on a family vacation but I didn't have much time to watch TV.

vikki2020
05-08-2009, 02:05 PM
Maybe he got started when stationed in the South Pacific, with the guys putting on shows for each other--just like the musical!It's great to hear he put on the shows, and everyone loved it!

Samantha B L
05-08-2009, 05:24 PM
Hi Vikki, Yes,you can be sure he put on the shows and they were very popular!

Presh GG
05-08-2009, 10:40 PM
He sounds like a truely great uncle, careing and fun.

How lucky you are to have had him in your life.

We have a show like this at the senior lodge 2 or 3 times a year on the peninsula. A fun night for all.

springtime

nvlady
05-09-2009, 01:27 AM
So he dressed once a year for the lodge brothers.
That's once a year that you know about.
Why does everybody assume that he only dressed once a year?
Edit to add that I am 100% convinced that it runs in the family.

Teri Jean
05-09-2009, 08:11 AM
Samantha,
As I read your post it brought heatfelt tears to my eyes, one for your love of your uncle and two for his adventurous spirit. I can think of a couple reasons, his being a closeted CD and this was his day out and the other may have been his way of saying life is too short so have fun. He served his country under some very trying times and may have seen some horrific things. It is obvious your love of him and keep his spirit alive and remember he maybe looking down saying Samantha is such a wonderful gal.

Huggs with tears. Keli

Samantha B L
05-09-2009, 08:48 AM
Springtime,nvlady,Keli-H, Thanks for your comments. I read a book about 30 years ago which said CD'ing runs in families and is somehow neurological or hormonal in nature. So I guess my Uncle's Once a Year Drag Show is a example of just that very premise!