Calgary Unitarians to combine Easter story, drag on Trans Day of Visibility in ‘sacred protest’
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"What better way to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility by holding a ‘Drag Me To Church’ service on Easter Sunday? So that's what we're doing," Rev. Samaya Oakley said.
A confluence of events has led one Calgary church to combine them in a celebration of “worth and dignity,” and a “sacred protest.”
“We talked about doing ‘Drag Me To Church’ one Sunday and we went, yeah, that’s a great possibility,” Rev. Samaya Oakley of the Calgary Unitarians Church said. “And I looked at the calendar and I saw that this particular Sunday is Trans Day of Visibility.
“And I thought, what better way to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility by holding a ‘Drag Me To Church’ service on Easter Sunday? So that’s what we’re doing.”
Oakley said it’ll be a “typical Sunday service” for the pluralistic congregation, but with a twist: drag performers will be part of the service.
The all-ages portion will include a story read by one of the performers.
“It’s a story about a young child who identifies differently and wants to wear different clothes at school and how they get support for that,” Oakley said. “The children will be sent out, we’ll do an offering, and our offering goes to help Skipping Stone.
“I’m going to tell the Easter story through (the drag performers) dance, so I’ll tell a little bit of the story, a performer will come out, we’ll sing some songs. It will be a fabulous event.”
Benjamin Tanner, who goes by the stage name of Jessica Bunny, is one of the drag performers who will be part of the retelling of the Easter story.
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