Now I know why transvestites drink from such large glasses: it makes their hands look smaller. (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
There are easier things in this world than the transvestite profession. But I have no other choice... because... no matter how hard I try... I can't walk without heels! (Friends, accomplices, lovers)
His face was smoother than wax | what kind of beard had he had that evening? it was a bomb in fact I told myself | I don't know anymore, yes I don't take her to bed | Everything seemed like a transvestite. (Franco Califano)
The girls of Stonewall siam: | I'll do the perm; | we don't wear underwear; | pubic hair shows! | The queens of the Siam village: | we always look at ourselves | let's do the perm, | because we are girls! (Stonewall)
That is, the "transvestites", men who dressed and posed as women, men who with their entire being felt like women and wanted to be women who prostituted themselves because the Italian society of the time did not offer them other options for living. (Giampiero Mughini)
For no one is makeup more important than for the homosexual who dresses up. The figure of the homosexual who cross-dresses is designated, just as the figure of rhetoric was for Plato, as a simulacrum, a copy without an original, something entirely artificial and uncertain. In this sense, it is very similar to cosmetic color: its purpose is to confuse and seduce, to counterfeit and conceal. (David Batchelor)
When a straight man dresses as a woman to have sexual fun, he is a transvestite. When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body and gets a little operation, that's a transsexual. [...] When a gay, however, has too much sense of style for one sex, that is a drag queen. [...] And when a little Hispanic boy puts on a woman's dress... that's simply a boy dressed as a woman. (To Wong Foo, thank you for everything! Julie Newmar)
– We are transvestites, but we are still men! [...] – We are men in skirts! (Transparent)
I'm just a sweet transvestite | from the planet Bisesso, of the Transylvania galaxy. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
"Transvestite" is the scientific name for people who wear clothes of the opposite sex. Many transvestites desire to be of the opposite sex. [...] If we give this man satin underwear, a dress, a sweater, a skirt, he will be the happiest person in the world. He will work better, think better, even play better. He will be more useful to his environment than himself, even to his country, because he is happy. These things constitute his well-being. But, why make-up and hair? He dares to go out on the street with the clothes he so desires to wear, but only with a truly feminine appearance. Long hair, makeup, clothes... The appearance of a girl in reality. Transvestites normally do not wish to change their lives or bodies. Most just want to wear the clothes of the opposite sex. (Glen or Glenda)
