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Emerson Collins
@ActuallyEmerson
Actor/Producer/Dandy Film: Southern Baptist Sissies; A Very Sordid Wedding. BRAVO’s The People’s Couch. @RENTonFOX
Oct 25, 2022 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
Leslie Jordan and Del created loudly gay magic together in "Brother Boy" in Sordid Lives and in Southern Baptist Sissies.
Two plays, three films, a TV Series for LOGO.
They both won countless awards, and it's all rooted in finding each other as the best of friends 37 years ago. They made specifically Southern gay stories and found a huge audience that connected to the humor and the pain in their work.
In 1996, Del's coming out play Sordid Lives starred Leslie as "Brother Boy," a Tammy Wynette-obsessed drag queen locked in a "loony bin" for 23 years.
Oct 24, 2022 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
It doesn't seem real, but I know Leslie would be tickled by every recounting of the slightest interaction people had with him.

He had the rarest of gifts as he could make every single person laugh without knocking anyone else down.

The first time I met him, I was terrified. 1/ Image It was Thanksgiving 2005. I had just driven straight out from Texas through the night moving to LA. I arrived at @DelShores' house; I was joining the revival of his play Southern Baptist Sissies in LA.

Leslie was in the cast, and I knew him from Will & Grace and Sordid Lives. 2/
Mar 28, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
On Roseanne protecting the gender fluid grandson vs. supporting Trump despite the administration’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. This is actually something many of us who are queer from conservative families experience. I call it the “But You’re Special” syndrome. Our families grow to accept our queerness or identity because they love us and we’re “special” to them. They don’t say it, but it’s there that they mean “you’re not like those other queers.” We’re the exception to them. It’s a compromise that involves mental gymnastic on their part to accept us