Thursday, January 22, 2009
FMI Magazine
Posted by Monica Roberts at 2:53 AM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/01/fmi-magazine.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/01/fmi-magazine.html)
Back in the BI (before Internet) days I was searching for any information I could get on transgender people. If I spotted a newspaper article on a transperson, I clipped it out and stuck it in an envelope to peruse later. I saved, but eventually lost in the process of moving from my parents house to my apartment the JET magazine issues that chronicled the stories of transsistahs Justina Williams and Sharon Davis.
But one unlikely source of info for me came from a glossy magazine called Female Mimics International, or FMI for short.
I ended up getting dragged into the Bellaire News adult store one day by a friend who was looking for adult movies to rent. While he was perusing the movies, I was hanging around the magazine racks and spotted an issue of FMI that had an African-American transwoman on the cover. Since I was with my homeboy and wasn't even remotely ready to tell him that I was hanging out in Montrose but dressing a bit differently when I did so, I couldn't purchase it at that moment. I came back a few day later and picked up it because I was curious about the magazine and its contents.