Abstract
Growing up in Glace Bay, a small town in Cape Breton, in the eighties, terms like ‘gay’ and ‘trans’ were unheard of, let alone talked about. I grew up always feeling sort of an outsider. I was mixed race; I didn’t really fit in with any sort of crowd; and I was a lot more ‘feminine’ than the other boys. Today there are a lot of people who think that trans women and drag queens do not mix, that drag queens are trans misogynist. But, in my experience, a lot of trans people come up through drag, just as I did. Drag was the catalyst for my transition. When I came out as trans, people were already familiar with the more feminine side of me. In this article, I share my experience of discovering both drag and my trans identity and how those two sides of myself came together over time.
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