How dressing in drag made me uncover myself | Eric Anthony Dorsa | TEDxSanAntonio

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. When Eric came out of the closet as a gay man and again as a drag queen, he simply opened a door. What he thought were identities he soon realized were, in reality, masks he wore in order to leave his closet and face a cruel world that had put him there in the first place. When those masks came off, he was left with the same fear, shame, and isolation he had always felt. Which left him with a choice—either accept himse