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A priceless account of one family's choice to believe in their child. Should all parents be so enlightened the world would be a better place.
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/08/23/my_son_in_a_dress/index.html
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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When I was twelve I was, like many of my classmates, on stage in a school class "play". We portrayed the Moulin Rouge. One of us was Edith Piaff, and sang La Vie en rose, for example. I was classed as a non singer. And we made up the chorus.
I wore a bright yellow nylon shiny can can dress, frilly knickers, a suspender belt and seamed stockings. No-one thought this at all strange. It was an all boys school.
What I find odd about this story is not the parental attitude (good for them), but the fact that this is news at all. None of my classmates were worried to be acing female parts. We just had fun dressing up and being on stage. As far as I know I am the only queer among them. At the time I had no idea I was, though.
Putting the yellow dress on did not define me in any way.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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ray2x
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Really getting into it |
Location: USA
Registered: April 2009
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I've read some snippits from online news of young boys truly loving to dress as girls, and parents who support them. These boys are on a cultural vanguard, where gender is not wired but fuzzy-logical. Some boys just want to experience the attraction of wearing girl clothing, while some may feel more than experimenting but kindred to a girl. It should be interesting.
Raymundo
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