Major! Page #7

to be his son, oh poor thing.

And he was a career Navy man.

And he loved putting

a gun to my head.

And at first it was

I'll kill you and kill myself.

And then when I turned around

14, 15, he went into this

"I'll kill you

and do the time."

And I thought now wait a minute

something's changed right there.

You get to live,

something's happened.

When Major came around,

they called her Mama Major.

She was a, just

a warm welcoming Mama.

I seen a couple of the girls

and a few other people

either call her Granny or Mom.

So I asked her, I said

do you mind if I call you Mom?

And she said no I don't sweetie,

so I started calling her mom.

One of the reasons that

I call Mis

when you're around

Miss Major, she will stop

the whole world to look at you

and to really see you.

And she is able to see

the pain that you carry

and the joy that you carry,

and there can be like

5,000 phones ringing

and a foundation officer

that's like waiting,

and she's gonna be like

ok you need to wait, because

I'm taking care of this person.

You just want to fold

in her arms and sit there

for 30 years because

you feel safe there

and you feel seen there

and beautiful.

And I think, our people

don't get to feel that a lot.

And I would be so tired,

and I d tell Mama put

my bags in the trunk of your car

because I got no place to stay,

and Miss Major would take me

to the New Pacific

and rent a hotel there

and say sleep miss thing.

From there I knew

that someone cared.

And whoever this woman was

I knew that was my mother

and I asked her to please

be my mother.

And Mama, anyone who is

really close to her

and who loves her and she loves

and chooses, she's very

dysfunctional with us.

All of us.

And so if she's not,

if she doesn't give you grief

or jabs at you or whatever,

you don't mean as much to her

as someone that she does jab

and play around with,

and you know, Mama how she is.

"I'm gonna do no matter what,"

you know.

So, it's very special for me.

I said I need someone

to walk on this journey with me.

And she said, I don't want

no more children,

I've got enough gay children.

I said well I don't need

no mama, I do need a grandmama,

because I already had

a gay mother.

And so she said, Ok,

just don't treat me

like no grandmama,

I'm not old and sh*t.

But I'll be your granny.

And so a relationship

ensued from there.

I don't call Miss Major mama

but I do call her

the Anna Wintour of TGIJP,

because she's our

editor in chief.

And in the way that the editor

of Vogue is so clear

on her purpose, Miss Major is

really clear on her purpose,

which is to love all of us

and to fight for all of us.

And she's really powerful

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