The Moth Radio Hour: Other People's Shoes
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The Drag Queens
"I was a person of questionable gender identity myself and I was being harassed daily little did I know here I was becoming the very thing that I was most frightened of now," he says. "My mother was notoriously homophobic and wasn't shy about using physical punishment in fact if there wasn't a belt in close proximity she was great at improvising whatever was in close reach after school" He recalls how his feelings toward drag queens changed as he watched them go about their lives one day when he finally summoned up the nerve to cross the street and have a bama cigarette with them.
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