nostalgia

[Allisa]

Well I saw an old episode or two of a sit-com called Busom Buddies, it brought me back to the days when I first started to accept my femme side and the dreaded pink fog hit me hard and long, I was working an excellent job with top pay and there was plenty of work. My wardrobe grew fast and before long I was going out to clubs in a time when we were not very well accepted any where let alone in public or shopping but I survived As I watched I could hear the disco music and remember all the big hair and styles of clothing the make-up the perfumes, what were we thinking. Talk about hiding, try working construction with femme overtones in a time when violence prevailed against anything different, and no laws to protect us. We sure have come along way since then. And now the sun has come up and somehow I feel refreshed, funny how time slips away and attitudes change, I think it's time to go out again and do some shopping it's been a very long time, I hope I can get my voice back, if not so be it, times have changed. Well thanx for letting me tell my tale, the farmers markets are calling, need some fresh veggies for freezing and dinner.

Bye-Bye Lisa

[WhisperTV]

My "good old days" only go back 3 months. :(

I really wish I had started younger.

[Beverley Sims]

Lisa,
You nly have to look back at old threads on this forum to realise how things are changing all the time.

Six months, same thread and entirely different views from a new set of girls with different viewpoints.

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Allisa, Things are changing slowly, Look at men shaving their legs and chest now days it's becoming accepted.

[Elle1944]

Oh how I loved that time, my time in my youth, my early 20's, when I was young and beautiful. Greenwich Village, Stonewall Inn, Mothers, Your Fathers Mustache, all in the Village and I forgot other nightclubs that we would patronize. The time of "big hair" 8" dangle earrings, doused with perfume, halter neck sequinned evening gowns with fish tails on the bottom of their dresses riding the floor, and who could forget the drag queens performing on stages throughout the City lip singing "Boy From NYC", that song if ever was the theme song of "we've had enough" the Stonewall riot crowd's. It was the best of the worse of times, no longer did we have to wear 3 articles of your birth given gender, or to be placed in a "sissy tank" in one of the City's lockups, arrested for cross dressing, impersonating a female, disobeying the dress code of the City, even lesbian women were not allowed to wear pants or men's shirts, we've come a long way indeed, but there was blood shed, heartache and pain in so doing. Lee Brewster putting on his many drag shows as possible in defiance of the City Ordinance against such shows, even Broadway Stars and Producers would visit his shows. Can you imagine watching a drag queen on stage in her flamboyant appearance and seeing the bottom of her men's blue jean pants below her hemline and above her 5" spikes, very ugly, but that's what the law said. Rebellion at it's best. A link, I hope it's allowed! http://queermusicheritage.com/fem-brewster72a.html