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saintjosie · 3 months

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a couple months ago, i took a bit of a risk and played a show opening for a friend’s band, in a small city in a very conservative state in the south. my friend warned me that they didn’t know anything about the venue or the kind of people that would be there but i said fuck it and did it anyways.

so there i am, my extremely transgender self, standing in front of about 30 middle-class-brewery-bougie people, singing extremely transgender songs about religious trauma, trans joy, and self love, making a room full of people who had no idea who i am, empathize with my story, cry, and celebrate trans joy.

and during the show, i of course thank my incredible girlfriend for supporting me on my journey and helping me love myself. this is very important and very relevant to this story.

after im done, im thinking, fuck yeah this is awesome, i can’t believe that these very cis het people resonated with my music so much

when this older woman and her husband comes up to me and tells me how much they enjoyed hearing my story.

and then tell me that she is THE PASTORS WIFE AND HE’S THE HEAD PASTOR.

and THEN they tell me that their son is playing in the headlining band, and i realize that most of the people in the room are people FROM THAT CHURCH and i just sang my very transgender and anti-religious music to a room full of weirdly supportive christians.

and then they all proceed to tell me how much they enjoyed my music and then also tell me how awesome it is that my “friend” is so supportive and came to the show, when i literally said during the show that she’s my girlfriend.

you’ve heard of trans inclusive radical misogny, now introducing trans inclusive homophobia?

9/10 show, would not attempt again.

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