- mayor of Vancouver he was the

“HEY, DAD! Are ‘you a:
-“eross-dresser?” Has the lit-
tle woman ever come home
suddenly to find you admir-
ing yourself in the mirror,
complete with bra and
panties? Do you like to go to
bed in'a nightie?

I'm not joking. First it was the
pansies coming out of the closet,
and before we know where we are
~-we'll find the bra and panty set
doing likewise.

Canadian Press has done an in-
depth look at cross-dressing, and
’ once the ice has been broken that
way in these loony times we're .
away to the races. The same thing
happened when Trudeau
announced that the state has no
place in the bedrooms of the
~ nation. - :

You only have to watch TV to. /

see that cross-dressing has caught
on in a big way. ‘Half the time. you
can't tell who is male and who :
~- female. -: a

~ Can't wait to see some of our;
eee strutting their stuff.

: What a thrill we would get if we
saw Jean Chretien appear in a nice
, dress and spiked heels. Plus Mikey,
“B.C.’s champion trend-setter. As

“first in the country to sanction Gay
Pride ‘Week.
“Better still would be the sight of

MLA Schreck

NDP... MLA... ‘David | Schreck
‘announced he will run again in the
» fiding« . of 2 North: Vancouver-
« Lonsdale. °° :
. The’ NDP. nomination meeting
“for his constituency will take place
Oct, 29. : .

| Doug

Collins

on the

other hand

old sweats in the famous West Van
watering hole following suit, as it
were. I know an aging Aussie who
would look simply great in a mini-
skirt. But don’t tell him 1 said so.

If turbans are OK now, why not
minis?

. ~ According to CP. there are clas-

sifi ed ads that tell cross-dressers
which shops to go to. “Discretion
assured. All your fashion needs.”
One such entrepreneur was
quoted as saying of her first male
customer, “He looked better in a

_\ dress than [ did.”

Perhaps he got tired of the -

* Grunge Look? It’s more likely that
~~ his mum put curlers in his hair

when he was small.
-This sort of stuff i is not confined

“to the barmy West Coast. Over i in

to run again

The. NDP’ provincial executive
lifted its freeze on candidate nomi-

‘nations Wednesday.

The raove allows the party time

-.ta¢prepare for a coming. provincial

election, said party secretary Brian

; Gardiner. Pe

Call:

"DEREK A. CAVE

:

Trial Lawyer

London the Suaday Times maga-

zine ran several pages showing
macho men” in suits “acces-

sorized” with strings of pearls.

Will we be secing John Major
showing off his pearls next time he
pops up on the box? He was, after
all, the first British prime minister
to invite a top pansy to No. 10,

- Downing Street for a chat.

Of one thing I’m sure. We won't
see Maggie Thatcher in a butch
haircut and in need of a shave,
even though she's gone to the
House of Lords.

Canadian Press also informed us
that men can now get blush and,
eye shadow.

Men who go to the office with
briefcases can be cross-dressers, it
says here. Some take their female
attire to the office that way and
sneak out to the john “to commune
with their female selves.”

I have never met a chap in the
loo wearing brief red panties, long
red fingernails and stiletto heels.
What would I do if I did? What:
would you do? | think { would say,
“Have a nice day.” ;

That a man is married is na

guarantee he isn't a bra and panty
enthusiast. As fur as I know, none
of my best friends have been cross-
dressers but...

One married man with kids was
quoted as saying, “I do like the feel
of the hair down on my shoulders.”
He also likes to collect clip-on ear-
rings and wears three pairs of dark
panty hose to hide the hair on his
legs. Hairy legs! { have hair on my
legs. Am I OK? .

The inevitable sociology profes-
sor has emerged tc say a few words
—~ Holly Devor of the University of
Nictoria. According to her, cross-
dressing should be socially accept-
able. :
What did 1 tell you!

“1 think it would be 4 healthy
thing to do,” she said, “The behav-
ior itself doesn’t have to bring any.
grief if.it’s out in the open,

However that may be, watch for
‘cross-dressers coming out of the
closet and demanding “equal .
rights,” just like the homosexuals.

All Ican say is; “Thanks, Mum, 7
for not putting my hair in curlers.”

;,. Thai would have made, me
cioss.

Bear ca re
urged on
N. Shore |

THE PROVINCIAL con- a

servation office service
advises. that falling fruit ,
may attract one of 6,500.
black bears located in the «

‘Lower Mainland area: ~

Ongoing urbanization is’
having an impact on bear habi-

‘ tats. The result: an increasing
Sumber

of. contacts with:
humans. Every year the service
destroys . habituated: bears’
attracted. to . unnatural ' food”
sources,

Bears that are addicted to
garbage and. human food:
sources lose their natural aver-
sion to people. The service’
advises that residents take spe=:/]?

- cial care. with falling orchard ||

fruit and garbage to limit ‘con-
tact and potential conflict with

bears.

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