Get Dressed! Breaking Out of the Crossdressing Closet [Paperback]

Gina Lance (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 2008

In her new book GET DRESSED! Breaking Out of the Crossdressing Closet, Gina Lance provides insight to how she developed her positive view on crossdressing, offers commentary on life in general and crossdressing in particular.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Honest and down to earth! Much like the rest of us, Gina Lance is a crossdresser who through fear, failure and life's experiences comes to the point of true acceptance, happiness and success! --Becca, A Crossdresser s Secret Garden

About the Author

Gina Lance, the Editor In Chief of TGLIFE.com, may be the most well known crossdresser on the planet. After producing and co-hosting TV-TV for Los Angeles Century Cable in 1997, Gina went on to publish Hollywood TVs, a retro pin up girl calendar, and then in 1999 founded GIRL TALK Magazine which became the Vogue of trans publications in ten countries. In the last decade, Gina has been featured on the MSNBC documentary The Secret Closet, ABC television Philly After Midnight, MTV, Showtime, HBO, E Channel, FOX and the NBC show, To Tell The Truth, along with hundreds of radio interviews from London to New Zealand and across North America. She has been keynote speaker at TG conventions such as the Atlanta Southern Comfort Conference, the Arizona Puttin On The Glitz and the Arkansas Eureka En Femme Getaway and also participated in the West Hollywood, California Transgenders in the Media televised town hall event.

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: Colgate Publishing; First edition (April 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605857386
• ISBN-13: 978-1605857381
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #726,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Where's the beef?, September 4, 2008

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LeeAnn (Mpls Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Get Dressed! Breaking Out of the Crossdressing Closet (Paperback)

Like from the old Wendy's commercials. I looked inside and didn't find much meat, substance. I found the book entertaining, read it cover to cover in 2 settings. She talked a lot about the Transgender magazine she use to publish; I'm sure ground breaking in its day, but the personal experiences like disappointments and failures where not in depth. Not a real deep, thought provoking emotionally enlightening book. A few good tid bits of advise based on her experiences, but note an inspiring story nor a much advice on dressing. Mostly fluff, granted I got the feeling she has a great attitude toward life, but I like books that deliver on many levels. This was not it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money or the read., December 6, 2009

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M. Clayton (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Dressed! Breaking Out of the Crossdressing Closet (Paperback)

This book is not well written, has many, many typos, with sentences that make very little sense and is an over all difficult read. The writing is very poorly done, in some cases grammatically incorrect and sloppy. It is poorly edited, if at all. The author claims to be a writer but there is no proof offered in any form in the book. If she is a professional writer (and editor as one is not listed in the book) then I'm the Pope.

Not much is offered on the author's deep experience as a crossdresser, her struggles, insight, emotions or fears. The chapter on the magazine "Girl Talk" could easily be taken out as it is little more the a boring "to do list" what the author did for each issue of the magazine with lots of name dropping of people most readers have never heard of. All in all there was very little in the book I, as a crossdresser, could relate to.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a very good read, September 6, 2008

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Joseph M. Parks "Trans Sponge" (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Dressed! Breaking Out of the Crossdressing Closet (Paperback)

Get Dressed! was very interesting. I used to get the magazine before they stopped and always wondered what happened. As always each person have a story about how they came out and why and I think everyone is interesting. Most interesting is what she did once she came out. Gina explains about the pains and pleasures of running various businesses and what she learned for them. And what she is doing now.