For those of you who do not know, I have a son, from a previous "straight" relationship. Since my coming out his mum has been very guarded about explaining to him about my "lifestyle" and was very reticent to let my son have any knowledge of it. Well thankfully (and legally) she could not have her way, and we got to see him and have him stay over. One day he was stopping with us for a weekend and he was just sat in front of the fire playing with his Lego, when he blurted out,"Daddy, what is a Drag Queen?"
My mind froze...wishing, for once, he had asked me about where babies came from, or what does intercourse mean? I started to break out in a cold sweat and hyperventilate. Unfortunately, Cherry's costumes are difficult to hide, plus my son must've seen certain photos at times and had also must have heard us talking about things, oh and see Hubby trying on wigs and shoes and so forth, I just cannot work out what the give away was...
After some verbal stumbling I tried to explain, saying that some men, like my hubby, have a job where they go and entertain people at pubs and clubs, dressed in funny dresses, wigs and make-up and sing songs and tell funny stories and jokes, but only ones that mummies and daddies understand. I looked at him hopefully afterwards and he looked up thougtfully from his Lego, looked straight at me and said, " A bit like a lady clown then...like those men on stage at the panto pretending to be women??" I nodded fervently and he just dismissively said "Cool..." looked down at his Lego car and asked if I could help with the difficult bit he had got to - as if that was not difficult enough!!!!
