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Roxanne's Coming Out:
It Isn't Easy OR Cheap
By Roxanne
Would you like to share Your First Time Story with us?
It's easy! Submit your copy by e-mailing it to Cindy Martin here at TGF. Editing is done by Stef Matthews and Cynthia Smith. Hope to hear from YOU soon!
Having "done my thing" completely in the closet for more years than I care to think about, the seminal moment came when I read about B&B Leather in Calgary on a flight back from Toronto one Saturday afternoon two Christmases ago. This was it! I drove from the airport straight to B&B, arriving just as they were closing for their Xmas CD bash in the adjoining club, "Illusions". Elbowing my way past staff protesting that they were closed (I'd have none of it!), I demanded to talk to The Boss, Barbie. She told me to come back next Tuesday, but I went away happily 'because I had broken the ice AND HAD ACTUALLY TOLD SOMEONE!
A long, long chat the following Tuesday, and an arm-load of purchases, led to an appointment for measuring me up for some dresses and a corset. My final fitting happened, serendipitously, to come on a Friday afternoon prior to Illusions' next evening Social. "Why don't you stay dressed for the social?" Good idea!
"Where's your wig?" "What wig??" "Well, you can't come without a wig. Why don't you try one of these?"
$180 and counting.
"OK, where's your make-up?" "What make-up?" "Well, you don't seriously expect to look like *that*, do you?" "I only have lipstick, and that's in Toronto". "Let me get you a Starter Kit", said Barbie.
$180 + $100 = $280.
"How do I put this stuff on?" "Don't you know? Well, I can do you over.
It'll take an hour".
$280 + $35 = $315.
"You look *much* better than you did an hour ago! What are you going to do for nails?"
Add $10
"Panty hose?"
Add $30 by the time I'd laddered a few, layered into oblivion some very hairy legs and been persuaded to indulge in various different shades for next time.
"Better and better. Have you got your pumps?"
Another $125.
"You're ready to go! Now, do you want to join the Club?
Add $50 or so.
"Ok, what are you going to call yourself?" "How about starting with 'R' 'cos my real name does, and a feminine version of it? And it should be different from anyone else's in the Club."
A brains-trust ensued, involving all that had ears to hear, staff, customers and early arrivals for the Social. Membership records were pored over; all the usual "R's" had gone. Ten minutes later, approaching despair, someone said: "Roxanne!??" That was it! It is a lovely name in itself and has a certain irony don't you think?
And so Roxanne was born, baptized and initiated all in one evening ......... and just about bankrupted!
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