Those of us who are of a certain age will remember the sit com, Barney Miller. It's about the 12th Precinct detectives. I was watching it late last night and the 1975 episode, Vigilante came on. It features an arrest of a cross-dressing teamster, for an "unclassified misdemeanor." We're all used to seeing cross-dressers in comedy being the brunt of the gag. In this case the cross-dresser was treated with respect and the comedy lines were all about the "unclassified misdemeanor" and the others reaction to him.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/health/tomboys-lisa-selin-dav...

I am angered by the ignorance in this CNN Article. It's all about it being OK for girls to be Tomboys, and just goes on and on. Yet, if a boy tends to be effeminate, many of us know there is hell to pay.

It is amazing that they had the cheek to publish this article.

Gwen

Didn't wear my floor length, wrap around denim skirt and bling loaded denim blouse when I went to OKC. Too many people to talk to without over powering them. Just cowboy boots, jeans, satin blouse, hat, and you know what on my hip.

'A year has passed since I lost my home...'

There's going to be a break next weekend to allow myself and Snowfall to get well ahead but ....

Vantier a Whateley Tale chapter 20: encroaching shadows!

Well someone on here blogged about my Vantier stories (Sammi! grin!) and I noticed when some other reader psoted a coment that I ahd not done a chapter in a year!

so 2 years late (my bad!) I post a new chapter for you all to enjoy

and what shadowy danger grows in this chapter!......muhahahahahahaha!

Everyone probably already knows. Trump finalizes rule defining gender as a person's biological sex. Like Deuteronomy 22:5, many are using Harry Benjamin's illogical and so stupidly wrong, rules defining trans. Have I let everyone know in plain enough English how much I hate what that man did to all transsexuals? Thank you Benjamin for all the lives you complicated and those you destroyed for your "Standards of Care". I pray you receive your just reward in Hell. I think Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, policy adviser for The Catholic Association put it very succulently, transgender are insane.

It's the only holiday in August, my birthday. :) I'm 72.

I'm thankful for a lot of things in my life and one of those is BigCloset which I have been operating, with the help of friends, for almost 21 years.

It's fun and I'm convinced it helps keep me young, despite the occasional stress. :)

I'm kind of passed the age at which I expect birthday presents, but if there is anyone out there who would like to know that they made me smile, they can send a gift through the Hatbox via the links in the right-hand column of this page.

Once a month, my church hosts a special evening service called "Haven" for individuals on the LGBT spectrum and their allies. Well, the young man who normally runs the service has asked if I would like to lead it for the september service. Thanks to Covid, we'll stream me speaking, so no crowd to get nervous about, but still, something I've never tried before.

Wish me luck, and assuming the service will be available afterward, I'll drop a link.

I was just surfing around checking old dead links to remove when one popped up for me finally. http://www.oocities.org/b_dewinter/hotter3.html?20186 If I may suggest so boldly, check for stories you haven't seen before cause the link didn't work for quite a while...….nothing new, unless you have not been around since the dawn of time, like me

August 4, 2020

I'm pleased to see that there has been 5000 views of my February 2018 story "A Woman-less Beauty Pageant: It was the Zipper’s Fault 1".

As a first effort story I'm extremely pleased about so many hits but at less then 850 words I wish I had waited and combined ALL the "A Woman-less Beauty Pageant" chapters into a single longer story. Perhaps someday I will.

well, my new computer seems to be working, so I'm gonna give that a tentitive yay. But on the boo side, because how prolific we've all been this last couple of days, my latest story has dropped way down, and its at least possible some of you who would have normally checked it out have missed it. so just in case, here is a link: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/86208/tinker-tailor-s...

Bonnie helps Dolly with her disguise as Moose's girlfriend. Makeup changes her looks but at the last minute, Bonnie adds something else...

So once again, sorry for not posting yesterday.

Today was the first time I had ever seen the word, "Clovergender" and I am frightened, really terrorized. It means that T folk are prone to be Pediophiles. I'm shocked.

but I have no 'en'

In case anyone hears about it, I live near the Apple Fire, currently burning east of San Bernardino, but it is moving east and north away from me.

I'm okay, there's almost no wind and fire travels uphill, usually; it's already 2000 feet further up the mountain than where I live.

Hugs,
Erin

How long has it been since I purchased lipstick? It's been awhile a really long while. My peach lipstick finally ran out on me. Oh I still had a kazillion colors of red but last peach or apricot, or natural colors. Time to break down and pick up another tube. I absolutely hate buying lipstick as the color is NEVER the same as the one we ran out of. Walmart was a joke unless red is one's color. Heck I have three or so dozen of red. I want peach or natural. Walgreens had some and again, yes you guessed, RED, but they also had a lot of gothic shades.

I have just posted "Floria". This will probably my last story posted here and elsewhere. I had posted four other stories that were taken from well known operas. They were "The Queen of the Night", "Anita", "Discovery", and "Mike and Ashley." They had happy endings but I had to do some significant finagling in two of them to make them end up that way' It wasn't going to happen with "Floria".

I can't remember if the story is Canon or NON-Canon

all I remember is the scene is in the dojo and Chaka is asked to spar with the protagonist

Chaka's mouth runs and she upsets the protagonist and if memory serves she looses almost to the point of dyeing, and Ito reprimands her for running her mouth

Our redhead is very busy. In Butterscotch 17 - Clubbing, here on BigCloset, Kissy tries to avoid a confrontation.

While in the sneak preview for patrons of chapter 22 - Testing on Patreon, Mom and Davey...go shopping?

I just needed to write this down before I forgot it,

Looking at my old stories, I'm surprised that they're almost all apocalyptic.

Hello out there,

Wow, have I been making some changes.

I've pretty much re-branded myself as Katherine Phillips' Brain on all of my social media. It's fun because I started adding little daily memory slips. A memory of mine is presented and then I snap out of it mid memory. Then I apologize.

I've been interacting a lot on just about every social platform I can. I'm trying to amp up my presence.

I also bought a domain for my author page!

AuthorKatherinePhillips.com

I haven’t posted in a while and wanted to see if I could get new readers to my stories.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/author/sarad

I'm reaching the point on my story 'Carla & Julian' where I want to link it to a video posted on YouTube that inspired the story. It is fiction and provides the background to the 2 central characters, one who is transgender and provides an insight to the lives of their families. The film is a wedding day.
Can the story link to the YouTube video without breaching copyright or risk of my story being removed? The main character names are different and I could just add that the story was inspired by xxxx.

I guess I'm kinda a pill when it comes to typing. Especially when it involves a blog or a PM. I've been wishing we had a method of using Emojis in blogs and messages. I finally figured out a way to do it, although it's a workaround.

It's a serious workaround, especially in PMs, but it does the job.

Emoji by OpenEmoji

Many years ago a person on FM posted something that was quite painful for me.

He said that there has never been a transwomen who he could not spot.

Imagine how devastating that concept felt for someone desperate to pass.

As therapy -- I made that person into a major character in my next story and in the story made him realize how wrong he was.

Just a thought.

Jill

I just wanted to let people know that I haven't abandoned the site, nor the next chapter of The Other Side of Me. I went on vacation a couple of weeks ago and returned home with a bit of depression and a huge pile of Impostor Syndrome. I promise that the next chapter will be out soon, it's already half written. I just needed the extra time to find my voice and get the words flowing again.

Sorry for making anyone waiting on it.

Limbo's (Samantha)

I am upset. Really upset.
I have been accused of the worst .. the very worst. Plagiarism. Even the word sound slimy. What an awful thing!

Dolly gets her first dress, learns that Bonnie lies and finds out something disturbing about Moose.

 
Stolen! -5- Corset
by Erin Halfelven

anyone who is looking for chapter 14 of Demon Witch Cheerleaders it is called Jade's sister and her past.

As many will know I used to be a minister, and am still a dedicated Christian.

*** START OF RANT ***

Why do Christians place chrome fish on the back of their cars, then proceed to be obnoxious drivers?

Have you ever had one of those days where absolutely nothing goes right?

I think most people consider 2020 to be one of those years, but for me July 2020 is the culmination of 2020.

A couple of weeks ago, my cousin's husband let us know that she had a massive hemorrhage in her brain, and the doctors had operated twice. More on that in a moment.

Electric potential is also called "voltage" as in the number of volts. Electric current is sometimes called the "amperage". Power, especially electric power, is sometimes called the "wattage". Area when measured in acres is sometimes called "acreage". Have I ever seen "poundage" as in weight in pounds?

So what is "garbage"? There's also "suffrage," by the way. "Universal Suffrage".

I'm currently broke. I've begged to have people pay my bills for the last three months and I'm going into at least 2 more months where I'm going to have to beg again. As it stands now, I've got $40 to my name and next month $200 in bills to be paid. If I can't pay them, you won't be seeing or hearing from me AGAIN because I won't have electricity.

I NEED HELP!

Here is a link to my current book:

Billy deals with Jack her roommate, a charming rogue who already wants to get her into a bikini!

I'm extremely frustrated with my PTSD. I've taken therapy. Then taken even more therapy. And yet all it takes is a touch in the wrong place and I'm right back in the bad days.

Somebody, can you tell me if it ever goes away?

We've ended up having talks about accidents on my blog a few times. Well, this is hopefully the opposite.

I've had several people who have taken the final scene of Back to the Future to heart at my place. Perhaps I should start at the beginning.

Only from a man could the subject line be true. But only in their tiny little brain. Girls may or may not be human depending on who one asks the question. Do girls still iron things? Come on it's not a trick question. Except it is, depends on the girl doesn't it? Way back in the dark ages while holding onto a hot rock warmed by the sun, I was ironing out Errp's lizard skin shift. I said shift because back then we didn't name our body cover. There were some of Errps friends who didn't bother with such things..., I digress.

A few days ago, I received, in the mail, from Amazon, a thing that screws onto a water tap outside, where my fur girls can lick it to get their water. I had one before, and my pup took to it like a duck, or a dog, to water.

Unfortunately, my fur girls are a bit older, and don't seem to want to learn how to get water from the thingamajig. They'd much prefer I put a bowl under it, and hold the thing on so their bowl fills up like I'm their personal maid or something. Honest! They're dogs, not cats!