Definitions
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- noun The condition of being a
transvestite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex
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Examples
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‘Superheroism is a kind of transvestism’ « Gerry Canavan
‘Superheroism is a kind of transvestism’ « Gerry Canavan 2008
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Superheroism is a kind of transvestism; our superdrag serves at once to obscure the exterior self that no longer defines us while betraying, with half-unconscious panache, the truth of the story we carry in our hearts, the story of our transformation, of our story’s recommencement, of our rebirth into the world of adventure, of story itself.
‘Superheroism is a kind of transvestism’ « Gerry Canavan 2008
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Transvestism: There are many different usages and meanings of the term transvestism.
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Candy is, 'The first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.'
James Franco In Drag For Candy Magazine (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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Candy is, 'The first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.'
James Franco In Drag For Candy Magazine (PHOTOS) Katherine Thomson 2010
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Candy is, 'The first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.'
James Franco In Drag For Candy Magazine (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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Candy — only in its second issue — describes itself as the "first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations."
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Candy is, 'The first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.'
James Franco In Drag For Candy Magazine (PHOTOS) Katherine Thomson 2010
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Also, the Hebrew Bible mandates that men and women dress differently, probably to discourage transvestism, and other forms of what Moses termed perversion.
Chesler Chronicles » Khomeini-ism Comes to Israel: Women of the Wall vs. the Jewish State 2010
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An old-fashioned vaudevillian romp with transvestism and a gay love story at its center, "La Cage" ran at the Palace Theatre on Broadway for more than four years, through the darkest stretch of the AIDS crisis, which decimated the cast, rendered Herman HIV positive and killed his partner Marty.
No stranger to a full house Dan Zak 2010
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