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All this and NOT ONE poly couple said they liked my vibe. Brooklyn is healing. taken in All Night Skate by @tittsromney

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@tittsromney surprise karaoke improv making all the girls scream. MSG residency forthcoming. by @tittsromney

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I stood in the wings with Father Fay, who had just performed a striptease as the pope. “Well, Titts. See you on the other side.” I walked onstage.

In secret Mormon temple rites, there is a Church-produced film of Genesis. It’s campy as hell: set design gives Home Depot, costumes give Joann. Alone with Eve, Lucifer offers fruit that will make her wise. She is confused. “You, my brother, come here to persuade me to disobey Father? Is there no other way?”

There is not.

Adam returns, Eve offers him the fruit. He rebuffs her. Eve is confused again. “Do you intend to obey all of Father’s commandments?

“Yes, all of them.”

She debates him, makes a case, he relents. Elohim approaches. “You are naked!” Lucifer hisses. “Take some fig leaves and make you aprons. Quick! Hide!” The video stops. At this point in the ritual, Mormons adorn white aprons.

On Monday in a different kind of drag, I sat behind a veil in an apron that was black. My head was bowed—in pose, not prayer. I had 26 seconds alone: 19 for a film of my own making and the first 7 seconds of music. The downbeat came. I took a breath.

If all the world’s a stage then death must be a spotlight. A beam surrounded by those we love. I believe in the gospel of death.

Dancing in the spotlight, I could not see anyone’s faces, but the room felt warm and familiar, full of my past selves in silhouette. There was a red word in the back, hung above a sliding door. I fixed my eyes on it until the room went dark—lights, phones, the disco ball. In the end the exit is the only thing that glows.

The audience left for the bar. I returned to the dressing room, gathered my things, packed my bags. Below the exit sign, I stopped. I heard music beyond it, dancing, the muffled laughter of people I knew. I took a heaving breath, slid it open. On the other side was love.

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@theydy.bedbug, @baxarts, @roosyelloww, @vanillaheavy, @queerlyfemmetastic, @mxraradarling, @jakewesleyrogers, my drag family: thank you for the genesis. I want it that way, and I want it with you. taken in House of YES by @tittsromney

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@tittsromney is born. Trailer by the inimitable @latterdaylabia, featuring the pitiable Dallin H. Oaks, the next prophet of the Mormon church, and Gordon B. Hinckley, the prophet of my youth. by @tittsromney

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