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Every time the church doors were open, we were there. My granny was — played the piano every Sunday and Wednesday. My dad was the praise and worship minister. My mom worked in the nursery and she was the youth minister. And my parents were always using me as the butt of those kind of jokes growing up.
And so they outed me and it was painful. I was going to hell. Immediately they called my pastor over to talk some sense into me. They said they would never love my choice in a lover. They would never be at my wedding. They would never invite him over for dinner. You can never stay the night. They would never come to my house if he was going to be there.
Things like that.
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And then October of my senior year, they wanted to get me away from that gay kid at school, so they moved me to The Dalles, Oregon. Population about 10, The nearest city: Portland, Oregon. So I started with a clean slate. I got on Myspace and started looking for some gay people, found my drag mother Jersey Scities, and started going to the all-ages nightclub and sort of performing as a boy.
We knew. Does this mean you want to be a woman, Timothy? Now, gay this point, me getting into drag was not even a big deal because my parents had started being okay with me being gay. Every now and then, he could come over for dinner. After we broke up, I started dalle to Portland a lot and I actually moved in with a couple friends and I started doing drag.
Talked about her like, you know, an ex-girlfriend that stole a lot of money. People like me. People tip me. I feel like a little star. My co-host oregon running the bar.