Arkansas Times – Jacqueline Froelich
?Am I gay? Darlin?, I?m 6-foot-3, 220 pounds and am a 23-year law enforcement veteran!?
Smith is a self-described truck-drivin? bubba who lives in rural Carroll County. But on special occasions, Officer Sam Smith adores putting on party dresses, high heels, makeup, a shiny wig, and being called ?Rebecca.?
Smith (not his real name) is also happily married to a woman and 100 percent heterosexual.
Smith is a cross-dresser. And he loves the company of other cross-dressers. So twice a year, he and his wife, Dixie, organize ?En Femme Getaways? ? cross-dressing vacations hosted by the Basin Park Hotel in downtown Eureka Springs.
?Cross-dressing amongst men is one of the best kept secrets,? Smith said with a deep drawl, ?right up there with how to build an atomic bomb.?
Transgender research reveals that as many as 50 percent of men have cross-dressed and that most cross-dressers are straight married men.
Those who wear women?s clothing for sexual arousal are termed transvestites. Gay men can also be cross-dressers, but most tend toward the drag side of the spectrum.