text photos on Flickr

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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.

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Page in Welsh ! by jesse1dog

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Part of a series of photographs of old books.

Visited the local second-hand bookshop last weekend. Explained to the owner what I had in mind and was directed to seven boxes of books all going to land-fill! I could help myself and was doing him a favour if I took anything. Came away with a bulging bag full. This creased page came from there.

Pentax Auto 110 70mm

_DSC7179-2.jpg by Christopher May

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Une rue de Moron Cuba _9302 by isabelle chauvel

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Morón est l'une des dix municipalités de la province de Ciego de Ávila dans le centre de Cuba Morón est la ville la plus proche des grandes stations touristiques de Cayo Coco et Cayo Guillermo . www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo/street-of-moron-cuba-phot...

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace. Ephesians 1:7 New International Version (NIV) #VerseoftheDay #ThankYouLord #GodBless #PopoyDiaz by popoy diaz

Fraktur mon amour by Giovanni de Faccio

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graffiti by Graeme Dawes

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Thank Frigates it's Friday! by orbed

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Tried Googling why this text is set by the River Severn in Bewdley, but I'm none the wiser, apart from the areas industrial revolution past.

HFF!

Special Delivery by Aaron Beck

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Special delivery

BANKSY - No More Heroes (Melrose) by TRUE2DEATH

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BANKSY "NO MORE HEROES"

Best Viewed LARGE

This piece is new and the paint is probably still wet. Went to L.A. looking for some new stuff and I found this jem and a bunch of Space Invaders.

BANKSY, SPACE INVADER & NECKFACE are all in town this week. If you live in or near L.A. keep your cameras handy!

BANKSY

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I am a cliche by Karen

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I felt like being humorous.

This is for Jeremy

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Surface by gol-G

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The golden triangle, North Thailand by Alexis Gravel

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The Deadly Finger, 1957 by Roadsidepictures

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Flert by miaSone

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Little dreamer. by Passant Ali

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** Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.

Rock 'n' Roll by Ivan Nikolić

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Tickets for Saturday's rock and roll concert (group Smak).

Belgrade,Serbia 20.6.2015

Race and ethnicity: Portland by Erica Fischer

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I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA

Meet me at the gallery, Circular Quay, Sydney by Dalloway Fish

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Taken outside the new addition to the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Nothing could ever separate us from This love! by Brunna Souza

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Como Deus é lindo né? Nada nem ngm pode nos separar do amor dEle!

Musica da foto: Nothing to hide - Hillsong

Plaza Nueva, Granada by si newell

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Moge by michaelknight*

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