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“Our daughter had finished college, her Master’s degree, she was
settled, and teaching school. I sat down with my wife and we talked. It
was okay. We stayed together another four years until 2007 when my
daughter got married. It was time for us to peacefully part company. It
was so peaceful that we didn’t have to involve a lawyer. We were able to
do it through the courthouse at $126.50.”
“In 2007, I started spreading my wings.”
Glamazon
“So, I’m sitting there. Reba was across the room. I gave her this little
finger flutter wave.”(Jim demonstrates this gesture by lifting his forearm
and wiggling his fingers).
This flirtatious ‘hello’ worked because it attracted Reba to come over
to Jim.
“She came over. She had a few cocktails and she was very gregarious.
And that’s the way we met. We got to talking. My first impression was
this is someone you would think is so unapproachable and so foreboding
but was the complete opposite. Here was this wonderful person who
was friendly.”
Snapshot
Scott sat directly across from me wearing a Superman-emblem
baseball cap. Both Jim and Scott were wearing their retirement on their
wrists and fingers; the gold and diamonds were almost blinding in that
mid-morning light. It was gorgeous and exuded the fabulousness that
they carry-over into their non-drag life.
It was Scott’s turn to give me a little of his history.
“I was born and raised in California. I went to college at Chico State,
near Sacramento, met my wife, got married in 1979 and divorced in 1989.
When I got divorced, I started going to the gay bars in Chico.”
“I went into a small, corner bar and they were doing a drag show and I
saw all these queens and I thought, ‘Oh, my, God. Look at that.’”
“I think if you ever want to do drag, when you see a queen, it sparks
your interest. You say, ‘I can do that; how cool is that; I can make that.’”
OutBoisemag.com | Issue 19 | May 2016