Late last Saturday night, with a few friends, I wound through a casino in Vegas. “Follow that person in drag,” someone said, “they will know the way!” And they did. We tucked into the red sparkly booth around a table and the show started. I am not the first person to be moved by a drag show. This was not even my first time to be moved by a drag show, so maybe it was the fact that this one was on the strip in Vegas, or maybe because I had the monthly newsletter from the local stake president (because I’m still on the records) in which he warned people about the ‘evils of the world and the fiery trappings of Satan’ in my head. I wrote this stake president with some genuine questions about the language of those phrases and he responded that he certainly was not talking about me and sorry if I was offended, but as I sat in that booth, I thought, no, this is exactly the evils of the world he was talking about and I am who he was telling people to fear. But here I was, doing something that in a former life I would have certainly and secretly wanted to do, but wouldn’t have allowed myself because of the fear of how I would have been perceived.
I read this sitting in an LDS sacrament meeting and could not finish singing thr closing hymn about saints who had found yhr straight and narrow way. Give me radical love and acceptance over the straight and narrow everyday
"There was no room for play, no place for me to try out something new. The script was given to me, and I was the cast as the least significant role.". Beautiful written. Thank you for sharing Ash ❤️
“I wanted the temple to transport me to the wakenings of my most creative self. I did not find it there. There was no room for play, no place for me to try out something new. The script was given to me, and I was the cast as the least significant role.” 💯my experience too.
Being in the presence of such radical love, acceptance, and unfettered creativity is 100% a sacred experience.
Thank you for sharing this! You write so beautifully.
Experiencing that transcendent joy (and alt temple experience!) together is a feeling I’ll hold in my heart forever.
I read this sitting in an LDS sacrament meeting and could not finish singing thr closing hymn about saints who had found yhr straight and narrow way. Give me radical love and acceptance over the straight and narrow everyday
"There was no room for play, no place for me to try out something new. The script was given to me, and I was the cast as the least significant role.". Beautiful written. Thank you for sharing Ash ❤️
Drag on sister Ash Mae🥰🥰🥰!
A lovely piece of writing.
“I wanted the temple to transport me to the wakenings of my most creative self. I did not find it there. There was no room for play, no place for me to try out something new. The script was given to me, and I was the cast as the least significant role.” 💯my experience too.