This past Sunday, Austin Congregational UCC and Spirituality Center in Austin, Minnesota held a Sunday morning service that doubled as a drag show. The church dubbed the event “Drag Me to Church.”
“Roxi” gave the feature performance and expressed excitement about it, both as a drag queen and as someone who grew up in the church. Roxi described the performance as “singing, dancing, performing, and looking great doing it” to a local ABC affiliate.
“It means so much to see such an outpour of love and support from a community that, growing up, I thought would reject me at first and say that ‘you’re not good enough,’” Roxi said.
David Stoeger, who serves as pastor of Austin Congregational, said that an event like “Drag Me to Church” is an important part of the church’s vision to be “open and affirming.”