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WALK LIKE A WOMAN by Peter Nolan Smith

August 4, 2012 – 9:54 am

Billy Wilder’s film SOME LIKE IT HOT was a funny movie and I didn’t think much about men dressing up as woman, until my next-door neighbor asked me in his basement, “Who you think is prettier? Jack Lemmon or Tony Curtis?” “Neither.” This was 1964 and men in dresses weren’t supposed to be pretty to [...]

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Kathoeys for Joni

April 17, 2012 – 7:18 pm

I was born in 1952. Doctors during that prehistoric period had no way of predicting an infant’s sex, yet my mother was convinced that her second child would be a girl. Her first had been a boy. A year’s worth of pretty pink baby clothing lay neatly stacked in a pink crib. When her labor [...]

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