Stepping Out at The Cross-Dressers’ Ball

November 30, 2015 9:10 AM

The Seahorse Society of New South Wales is a support organization for transvestites. While it has been around since 1971, this year marks the first time that press has been invited to the annual ball. William Verity reports for A(ustralian) Broadcasting Corporations’s Earshot:

• The half-hour program
• Verity’s brief write-up

posted by Going To Maine (4 comments total)

The "brief write-up" link was absolutely beautiful, and I cannot wait to be able to sit down and listen to the program itself. To know that this organization exists, to know that people are getting support, are getting to be in a warm and accepting environment, is just weep-inducing.
posted by mittens at 9:25 AM on November 30, 2015

'I am 60 and I may not have a lot of life left, but what I do have left, I'm going to live it for myself,' he says.

The world would be a better place if more people could open up this way.
posted by Splunge at 9:49 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

One notes that it's "The Seahorse Society of NSW is a social and support organisation for cross-dressers & transgender people."
posted by joycehealy at 5:35 PM on November 30, 2015

Oh my goodness, you're right. I misread transgender as transvestite, which seemed redundant, so I simplified. My great apologies for screwing that up. And you're right - that "social" is really important as well, because many of the attendees are comfortable in their own skin and not in need of additional emotional support. My complete bad.
posted by Going To Maine at 7:16 PM on November 30, 2015