From Wikipedia: “Shortly after returning to Utah, [from a mission to Hawaii] Young began publicly performing as a cross-dressing singer under the pseudonym Madam Pattirini.
Young performed as Pattirini in north and central Utah venues from 1885 to the 1900s. He could produce a convincing falsetto, and many in the audience did not realize that Pattirini was Young.
One of his performances as Madam Pattirini was for the last birthday celebration of LDS Church president Lorenzo Snow in April 1901.
He also once portrayed a “fine Irish girl” named Bridget McCarthy at a Christmas ball at the Salt Lake Theatre in 1886.”
Do you expect something similar for President Nelson’s next birthday?
Why or why not?
Wheat & Tares 
You must be talking about Morris Young, a son of Brigham Young. Wikipedia says Morris Young was asked by his father to organize the YMMIA along with Junius F. Wells and Milton H. Hardy.
No, I do not expect such a performer will be invited at any function for a high church official. IIRC, the Handbook explicitly bans cross-dressing, along with masks, in church activities.
Wouldn’t THAT have been an interesting plural marriage?
ji, Except that during COVID we were required to wear masks 🙂
If I read correctly in Wikipedia, Brigham Morris Young was married to one of Lorenzo Snow’s daughters. If true, then perhaps we should look at Lorenzo Snow’s birthday party with SIL in drag as a family event, and not as a church event. Seriously, while have to be careful about presentism, or judging the past by today’s standards, some things are hard to square. Flip Wilson did some great comedic work as Geraldine, and Harvey Korman did some wonderful work as a woman in skits on the Carol Burnett show, and I can naturally laugh heartily at their good (and clean) comedy. I don’t know if Brother Young became Madame Pattatini for laughs for money, or if he truly had a wonderful woman’s singing voice, but money may have been tight and his gigs as Madame Pattirini may have brought needed income into a tight family budget with children to feed. Sister Young (née Snow) may have been very much at peace with what her husband was doing as an act, so I won’t throw any stones. Thanks, Stephen, for bringing this up. I wasn’t aware of it. I assume that President Snow knew what his son-in-law was doing, and apparently he didn’t think that the whole social order was threatened.
Perhaps drag is really just fun.
Maybe, just maybe, the moral outrage over drag is a construct used by politicians to alarm their base (such things often bring in many donations), and to distract how their policies hurt working people and increase wealth disparity.
I observe a lot of constructs thrown out by conservatives.
Are Republican leaders sincere?
On Instagram, see post by mattxiv, A trip down Memory Lane showing personal drag appearances by Republican politicians that now pass laws banning drag.
Title of post is, “republicans loved drag before they decided to make it a political issue.”
If anyone knows how to post it, go for it.
Or just do a google search – similar things will display.
Remember when porn was going to destroy the country? Isn’t it officially considered a public health issue in Utah? Now its drag shows. What could be next? Maybe virtual sex with AI bots?
Two thoughts:
1) Presumably Young’s drag performance wasn’t meant to be erotic and wasn’t directed at children. In other words, totally not comparable to the drag-queen strip shows and story hours that are currently in the news.
2) The LDS church is way too obsessed with its image to allow a performance such as Young’s to be anywhere near church leaders. President Nelson’s birthday, if it is publicly observed, will likely consist of GC dress standards, MoTab signing, and be an absolute snooze fest. It will reveal no personality or humanity of church leaders, beyond possibly cute anecdotes from childhood.
Y’all should realize that President Boyd K. Packer was a cross-dresser. https://www.standard.net/news/local/2014/jan/14/which-religious-leader-was-swivel-hips-in-his-college-yearbookij/
Tomirvine999, thank you for sharing that. I will never look at him the same way again. If only he could have loosened up a little in his later years. Now at least we know he had it in him.
I just read this:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/tech/china-livestream-lingerie-censor-intl-hnk/index.html
Different times and different places have different practices. In the old days, men played women in the theater because it was unseemly for women to entertain in public. In China today, apparently, men model women’s underwear because Chinese censorship laws don’t allow women to do it.
Wow. First Boyd K Packer, topless in a skirt and now Chinese morality police requiring cross dressing underwear models.
I’m not sure what else will surface.