Veronica Vera Writes

My current thoughts on human sexuality and gender; a look back at my sex journalism from the 1980’s and beyond; people, places and events of the ongoing sexual evolution.

Miss Vera Fairy
< 1 MIN READ

Within the lovely pink walls of Miss Vera’s Finishing School For Boys Who Want To Be Girls, Veronica Vera shares some personal history and twenty five years of history since she founded the world’s first transgender academy and crossdressing school.…Read More

Norma Jean Almodovar, VV, two sex workers who preferred anonymity, Gloria Lockett.
10 MIN READ

Margo St. James, mother of the modern sex workers’ rights movement, has died. She left the planet on January 11. 2021. This article describes the international gathering of sex workers at the European Parliament in Brussels that Margo organized with Gayle Phedersen in October 1986.…Read More

Veronica Vera Montage
4 MIN READ

I’ve added a phrase to the main title of my blog. Veronica Vera–Now & Then describes the schedule and the content of my posts. So far, I’ve published infrequently, i.e. “now and then.” I hope the more definitive “Now & Then” will stimulate me into publishing “more and more.” “Thens” are treasures from my days as a…Read More

Walking the High Line Park that overlooks Meatpacking District, reminders of past adventures and challenges from a previous plague.
3 MIN READ

For some time now, I have felt that I am living in the space in-between. I am at the age to have experienced the death of loved ones whom I think of often with growing awareness of my own mortality. So I inhabit both the physical world and a spiritual world filled with ghosts. I…Read More

Veronica prowls the city in search of sidewalk hookers, from the black women on the Lexington Avenue beat to the queens who work near the West Side highway.
8 MIN READ

Throughout the 1980’s I had a column in ADAM magazine called “Veronica Vera’s New York.” Here’s one of the treasures from my archives. I look forward to sharing more with you from my past as well as my present. Your comments are most welcome. I invite you to subscribe, and if you already have, thanks a lot!…Read More