LDS prophet Brigham Young’s drag-performing son skirted traditional norms and now stirs speculation. Really!

Where are the famous drag kings! I am so tired of reading about drag queens!

Don't they say there is always a black sheep in every flock.

During the pride month 2023, the Salt Lake Tribune combed the archives for a story or did the newspaper just rewarm something well known.

Here is the Wikipedia entry of Brigham Morris Young. Was he really a drag queen as implied? I doubt it! He was e.g. married! My guess, his singing voice sounded female and perhaps he was a gifted singer: "He could produce a convincing falsetto, and many in the audience did not realize that Pattirini was Young."

"Attired in an elegant long-flowing dress, a shawl draped over her shoulders and adorned with jewelry, the reputedly famous Italian singer Madam Pattirini thrilled Utah audiences over a century ago with her décolletage and high-falsetto soprano voice.

The performer in these shows, however, was no madam. Neither was she famous nor Italian. Nor was she really a she. He was a foot soldier in the faith of his father who served four proselytizing missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married in the temple, sired 10 children and helped found the faith’s Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association (YMMIA).

Turns out, Madam Pattirini — one of his drag alter egos — was Brigham Morris Young, Utah pioneer leader Brigham Young’s 35th child from his plural marriage to Margaret Pierce Whitesides Young. Commenting on his father’s death in 1931 from a ruptured appendix, Gaylen S. Young extolled his virtues in his biography, a “Brief History of Brigham Morris Young.” ..."

LDS prophet Brigham Young’s drag-performing son skirted traditional norms and now stirs speculation