My Guardian Angel Is Also My Drag Mom – Honoring Mella & Michael

“Coming Out” got me “Thrown Out”

At age 19, my Mom discovered something that would upend both of our worlds. While she was doing laundry, she found an invitation in my pocket to a gay Valentine’s Day party. There was no mistaking that it was quite the gay affair. 

My mother, the only person I respected at that time, gave me my first theology lesson concer…