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Vol. 8, No. 7 |
March 2000 |
The March meeting was held on Monday the 7th at the Ramada Inn in Hyannis. We had two new folks attend our meeting for the first time. Kelley had just arrived from New York and was relocating to Provincetown. For B, it was her first time out. B had talked over the telephone with Candy for about two years and had finally decided to attend a meeting.
The meeting was very low key and several discussions ensued. A review of the Valentine Party and comments on the upcoming birthday party dominated the conversations. Candy asked if anyone would like to take over the newsletter.....but the response was no thanks, you can remain editor. (If anyone would like to take it over, they can contact Candy at any time). Upcoming events within the community were also reviewed. Innvestments, Tiffany Club of New England, International Foundation for Gender Education and Fantasia Fair were reviewed. Several members of Innvestments were planning to attend many of these events. The meeting ended with a video tape that President Julie brought showing a program that was on the Oprah Winfrey show a few weeks ago. This also generate some discussion. The evening ended early with everyone looking forward to the birthday party in April.
The 8th Innvestments Birthday Party will take place on Monday night the 3rd of April at 7:00 p.m. This year's party, at the request of the majority of the membership, will take place in the main dining room/lounge of the Ramada Inn. Our traditional birthday meal of spaghetti and meatballs will be on the menu as one of the specials that evening. If that is not what you desire (as many have said they would like other items), you may order any other item off the regular menu. The club will pay for anything up to $10.00. Anything beyond that price, it will be up to the individual to take care of. Any bar tabs will also be the responsibility of the individual. The cost of the event will be our standard meeting fee. We will also have some entertainment and music so don't forget your singing voice. Should you need a place to change, we will have one of the rooms close to the dining room available. Room number will be posted by the front desk. Everyone is invited, members, spouses, significant others, etc., etc.
Come and help us celebrate our birthday and enjoy a good time. Please dress appropriate for the event. Your participation is what makes our events so special.
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and Your Innvestment
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Innvestment is
a publication of Innvestments, P.O. Box 2194, Orleans,
MA.0 2653-2194. Innvestments is a non-sexual service organization
founded to support and to provide a socially acceptable outlet
for the crossdressing, transvestite, transsexual, transgendered
community located primarily in Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape
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as Cape Cod Cross Dressers (Triple C-D).
Julie W..(stimpyl@capecod.net).................President
Denise S.............................................Vice President
Brenda L. (Brrendaa@aol.com)...............Treasurer
Liz W..............................................................Board
Candy Scott....................................................Board
PO Box 354
Sagamore, MA 02561-0354
Tel.: 508+563-3160 (Keep trying)
Fax.: 508+563-1240
email: Candyscott@capecod.net
Membership (including
newsletter) is $30.00 per-year (pro-rated after January) with
a $15.00 meeting fee. Meeting fees payable only for those attended.
This pays meeting location fees charged to the group, and for
pizza and soda for all. Subscription only rates are $12.00 per
year.
Do it yourself in 15 minutes. What you'll
need:
* cotton balls
* polish remover
* fine-grit file
* cuticle cream
* nail stone
* orangewood stick
* base coat
* polish
* top coat
1 minute: Remove polish with a cotton ball soaked in remover.
2 minutes: Buff edges with file.
30 seconds: Massage cuticle cream into cuticles.
1 minute: Gently push back cuticles with nail stone dipped in lukewarm water.
2 minute: Wrap cotton around the tip of orangewood stick; dip in polish remover and run across the surface of each nail to remove polish residue, and along the undersides to whisk away polish, debris, and oils. Rinse nails in lukewarm water. Pat dry.
5 minutes: Apply base coat, polish, top coat.
3 minutes: Let polish set.
30 seconds: Run nails under cold water to help speed drying.
Colors That are totally cool
For =
Short nails-whitish, pearlized colors such as purple, blue, etc..
Medium length nails-icy kind of colors, purple, Navy with French tips,
Longish nails-Orange, Green
Very Long Nails-Neon, Pastel
French Tips
What you'll need:
~French White Nail Polish,*Try L'oreal, it dries in 2-4 minutes.
~Clear Polish
~Nail File
~Color to apply afterwards
Apply Clear polish once and let dry. Apply clear polish on the bottom of nails as well. Let dry. After drying shake bottle of French White Polish and apply to underside of nails, being careful not to get it on your fingers. Let dry. Once dry, apply on topside at the tips. Let dry, then apply clear polish. Let the polish dry. Apply the color you want on your nails, and let it dry. Put 2 layers on.
Moon Crescents
The hippest fashion these days is that new Half-Moon style. It's a French Tips Style, BUT BACKWARDS. So just do French Tips on the back of your nail in the cuticle area.
Kool New Polish- Claire's recently came up with a new polish. It is clear coats that are colored, including Butterfly (blue), Mambo (Tropical Red), you get the idea.
From koolcat756@aol.com
.... as Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose and they go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose......But if as guys, Mike, Charlie, Bob and John go out for a night, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Useless. When eating out, when the bill arrives, Mike, Charlie, Bob and John will each throw in $20, even though the bill is only for $22.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back. When all dolled up and the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
As guys, each will pay $2 for a $1 item he thinks he one day, might use. But when all dolled up, they will pay $1 for a $2 item that they don't want, just because it was a bargain.
As Mike, Charlie, Bob and John, each has six items in their bathroom: a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn. But the average number of Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Roses items in their bathroom is 337, most of which they must have but don't know how to use.
As women, they try to get the last word in any argument. As guys, anything they say after that, is the beginning of a new argument.
When all dolled up as women they love cats. As men, they say they love cats, but when no one is looking, they kick cats.
Their wives married them expecting they would change, but they did not. As men they married a woman expecting that she wouldn't change and was surprised when she did.
Mike, Charlie, Bob and John will get all dolled up as Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail. But as men, they will only dress up for weddings and funerals.
And oh yes, as guys, they always wake up as good-looking as they went to bed, but when all dolled up as gals, they somehow deteriorate during the night.
And children. Ah, children. the spouse knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams. But the guys Mike, Charlie, Bob and John, they are vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
Whenever I tell a family member or friend of my
transgenderism, I begin by relating my concept of sex and gender.
I explain that everyone has a sexual identity and a gender identity,
as well as a sexual attraction and a gender attraction.
Sexual identity has to do with the sexual
organs one is born with, or feels one should have been born with.
"It's a physical thing". A person can be born or reassigned
as a man, a woman, or something in between (intersexed). Gender
identity however, is the degree of maleness or femaleness one
is inclined to represent. "It's a mind thing". One can
act traditionally male, traditionally female or vacillate between
the two (transgender). The two are not linked, even though society
at large likes to believe they are. Just think of Joan of Arc
who displayed qualities of a strong male even though biologically
female. Italian male sopranos castrated as young boys (castrati),
many times had the physical features of women, but felt and acted
as men. Transsexuals who undergo SRS bring their bodies into conformity
with their gender representation. However there are many transsexuals
("non-ops") who are content to have a body not completely
matching their gender.
Sexual attraction is the sex one is attracted
to biologically. A homosexual is attracted to the same sex, a
heterosexual to the opposite sex, and a bisexual to both sexes
to one degree or another. As with gender identity, sexual attraction
has a continuum of representations; however one does not determine
the other. For instance a gay person is many times not effeminate,
and a lesbian is not necessarily masculine, even though the typical
caricatures are to the contrary. Finally gender attraction is
the gender a person feels most comfortable associating with socially.
Some people mix easily with both men and woman ("bigender?");
but I would hypothesize that most people prefer the company of
either males or females. For instance, a male who prefers the
company of females (but not necessarily for sex) is - to coin
a new word - "heterogender". However the locker room
jock who may like to have sex with woman, but who prefers to hang
out socially with his buddies is actually "homogender".
This leaves a large number of combinations
to represent ones-self, which is important here in so far as it
helps someone to understand and put in context the concept of
transgenderism. For instance I think of myself as a bigender heterosexual
transgender man. As you can see the whole exercise can be a bit
confusing, and begs the question what does it matter? I find that
if I approach an explanation of transgenderism from an intellectual
direction it tends to diminish an emotional reaction. It also
challenges a person to think beyond the usual concept of only
two types of people - male and female. It thus gives a rational
framework on which to describe the concept of transgenderism.
Simply put, transgenderism is just one of the many colors of the
rainbow representing humanity.
If you would like to classify yourself do the following: Choose
your desired sex (man, woman, intersexed), then your gender (male,
female, transgender), then your sexual attraction (homosexual,
heterosexual, bisexual) based on your sex of choice, and finally
your gender attraction (homogender, heterogender, bigender). To
those who feel they lose their uniqueness when classified, my
apologies.
The question has been asked........"Who can come to our events?" The answer is that our events are open to anyone in the community.......and any of our friends and supporters. If you receive the newsletter as one of our vendors or one of the professionals that we work with, we are most happy to have you attend any of our functions. This same invitation goes for spouses, significant others, etc. This includes meetings as well as our party events.
Request everyone please send an upbeat funny card to Dawn. Please address the card to DON at PO Box 1180, Marshfield, MA 02050-1180. Her recent medical exam was not good. Your prayers are requested.
but wished I could display
J I would like to have each of you please send Dawn a cheer up, up beat card just to let her know that folks are keeping her in their prayers. Thank you.
J We will have entertainment and music at our birthday party. Plan on helping us celebrate our 8th birthday.
Lady Di Lady
Di made the front page of a recent Provincetown Banner. It seems
there was a festival party for the year round residents in town
and Vernon, all dolled up as Lady Di, was the life of the party.
J We received a request from Christine Becker to announce a family discussion group that she has been sponsoring. We were sorry our production dates did not coincide. At her request, we send out some notices to individuals we thought might be interested. If you are interested you can contact her office and get further info. Check the telephone number on page 2.
J Please let us know if you are moving or changing your post office box. Each month we receive undelivered mail from the previous month and it costs us money that we can better use elsewhere.
J I had planned to include some space in this issue to a current legal issue that is being watched closely by the T community. Data has been released on the Internet but has a caveat that it will not be officially released until April. For those of you with computers you may view the data at http://www.geocities.com/~itstimeoregon/news/news-TGProtection.htm
J At the March meeting, the request to have a movie night, or bowling night, or some other night out each month was requested. Based on this request, the 3rd Monday of each month has been set aside for doing something. In the Schedule of Events it is listed as Movie Night. This can be for anything you desire. Please let the President know what you would like to do on the first Movie Night the 22nd of May. We did not plan anything for April due to the Prom at the Randolph Country Club. Also we would like to have as many folks as possible attend the Prom so please keep this in mind.
J I am looking for photos from the past few years taken at any of our events. If you can provide me with the negatives they will be returned after I have them printed. I would appreciate this very much. I have quite a few from early events but very over the last 3 years. Thank you.
J Even though we have put a man on the moon, can fly 3 times the speed of sound, and live in outer space, we still have a problem with high heels and sidewalk gratings.......what can I say.