In honour of Trans History Week:
Before internet…
Before corporate dial-up services like Compu$erve, AOL (almost online), GEnie, etc.…
Before the bulletin boards…
In the 1980’s the sources of trans information were few and far between.
One treasured source was a magazine called Tapestry (née TV-TS Tapestry). Looking through the archive, I recognize the second edition of the full-colour magazine format was one that I had purchased in 1987.
This magazine was available at a specialty magazine store or, more likely, at a porn magazine store.
Tapestry had a mixed audience of TV and TS. In the 80’s I was still figuring out what I was so I suppose it’s true that, “when the student is ready to learn, the teacher will appear.”
Compared to buying a daily newspaper to find information, the distastefulness of going to a seedy porn shop, Tapestry was an oasis.
By comparison the 90’s were the Golden Age.
But I wonder what happened to the TV/CD’s.