Sarah AJ
WOTV Vol 11_10 Cover
Imagine a world before the Internet, where there was hardly any form of communication amongst the crossdressing/transvestite community. All was not completely lost however. One single light in the UK during the 1980's and 90's was Swish Publications's "World of Transvestism" (or WOTV as it became abbreviated). A successor to the much earlier "Tranz" magazine, WOTV was published monthly, inside was an "Aladin's Cave" of letters, photos (black and white), occasionally stories and illustrations. The publishing quality was quite poor and WOTV was not cheap (I think it was £6 when I first started to acquire my own personal copies).The cover usually graced some of the more photogenic girls, many of whom I am pleased to say are on Flickr. In view of their privacy I shall not post those, but I would like to share this cover showing an example of the sorts of illustrations that were often printed.
Stockists were few in fact in my area there was only one newsagent that stocked maybe one or two copies a month, but one could travel to Swish's main store in Greek Street London, to purchase missing copies or "bargain bundles".
Sadly I now longer have the magazines, but I did scan all the covers and most of the images of some of the girls from those magazines. If you did appear and would either like a scan, or have no objection to your cover (or image) being published here, by all means get in touch. The issues I have scans from are below.
Vol 11_10, Vol 12_01, Vol 12_02, Vol 12_03, Vol 12_05, Vol 12_09, Vol 13_01, Vol 13_02, Vol 13_04, Vol 13_08, Vol 13_09, Vol 13_10, Vol 13_11, Vol 13_12, Vol 14_01, Vol 14_02, Vol 14_03, Vol 14_04, Vol 14_05, Vol 14_06, Vol 14_07, Vol 14_08, Vol 14_09, Vol 14_10, Vol 14_11, Vol 14_12, Vol 15_01, Vol 15_02, Vol 15_03, Vol 15_04, Vol 15_05, Vol 15_06, Vol 15_07, Vol 15_08, Vol 15_09, Vol 15_10, Vol 15_12, Vol 16_01, Vol 16_02, Vol 16_03, Vol 16_04, Vol 16_06, Vol 16_11, Vol 17_04, Vol 17_05, Vol 17_07, Vol 18_10, Vol 19_03, Vol 20_06, Vol 21_01, Vol 21_04, Vol 21_05, Vol 21_12, Vol 22_02.
DISCLAIMER: I am not the copyright owner of the image and my publication on flickr is not intended to infringe any such copyright. I seek to make no financial gain from the reproduction. If you are the original copyright owner and wish the image to be removed, please contact myself.
WOTV Vol 11_10 Cover
Imagine a world before the Internet, where there was hardly any form of communication amongst the crossdressing/transvestite community. All was not completely lost however. One single light in the UK during the 1980's and 90's was Swish Publications's "World of Transvestism" (or WOTV as it became abbreviated). A successor to the much earlier "Tranz" magazine, WOTV was published monthly, inside was an "Aladin's Cave" of letters, photos (black and white), occasionally stories and illustrations. The publishing quality was quite poor and WOTV was not cheap (I think it was £6 when I first started to acquire my own personal copies).The cover usually graced some of the more photogenic girls, many of whom I am pleased to say are on Flickr. In view of their privacy I shall not post those, but I would like to share this cover showing an example of the sorts of illustrations that were often printed.
Stockists were few in fact in my area there was only one newsagent that stocked maybe one or two copies a month, but one could travel to Swish's main store in Greek Street London, to purchase missing copies or "bargain bundles".
Sadly I now longer have the magazines, but I did scan all the covers and most of the images of some of the girls from those magazines. If you did appear and would either like a scan, or have no objection to your cover (or image) being published here, by all means get in touch. The issues I have scans from are below.
Vol 11_10, Vol 12_01, Vol 12_02, Vol 12_03, Vol 12_05, Vol 12_09, Vol 13_01, Vol 13_02, Vol 13_04, Vol 13_08, Vol 13_09, Vol 13_10, Vol 13_11, Vol 13_12, Vol 14_01, Vol 14_02, Vol 14_03, Vol 14_04, Vol 14_05, Vol 14_06, Vol 14_07, Vol 14_08, Vol 14_09, Vol 14_10, Vol 14_11, Vol 14_12, Vol 15_01, Vol 15_02, Vol 15_03, Vol 15_04, Vol 15_05, Vol 15_06, Vol 15_07, Vol 15_08, Vol 15_09, Vol 15_10, Vol 15_12, Vol 16_01, Vol 16_02, Vol 16_03, Vol 16_04, Vol 16_06, Vol 16_11, Vol 17_04, Vol 17_05, Vol 17_07, Vol 18_10, Vol 19_03, Vol 20_06, Vol 21_01, Vol 21_04, Vol 21_05, Vol 21_12, Vol 22_02.
DISCLAIMER: I am not the copyright owner of the image and my publication on flickr is not intended to infringe any such copyright. I seek to make no financial gain from the reproduction. If you are the original copyright owner and wish the image to be removed, please contact myself.