The Trash Goes Out on Tuesday

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“The Trash Goes Out On Tuesday” chronicles the extraordinary life of actress and comedian Tuesday Thomas: coming to grips with being Trans in the early 70s when there were no words, internet, books or television to show her what she was. She embarked on an arduous journey to find her own tribe and live her truth.

With a biological father that tries to kidnap her, a predatory priest, and a mother who doesn’t understand what is wrong with her son, Tuesday had to leave home to become the person she knew she was inside.

She finds friends and foes in the LGBTQ+ community, the one place she should be safe but wasn’t always. Doing shows to make money, she was getting hormones wherever she could: including black markets and shady doctors. All this at a time when trans health-care was ‘unofficial’ and deadly, if it existed at all. After all, the median age for trans women at the time was said to be only 35.

After surviving sexual assaults, outing, drug addiction and more she thought she’d found happiness and got married in Vegas. However, her husband soon reveals himself to be a drug-addicted lunatic who leaves her sick and alone. Tuesday goes home to recover, where she reconnects with the family she once felt so alienated from.

While trying to divorce her husband, he begins to stalk and harass her, chasing her across the country for almost a decade, including orchestrating a conspiracy to have her killed for the insurance money. Finally, after he gets deported back to Canada, Tuesday faces her final battle.

The breast implants Tuesday had gotten over 20 years ago break and start poisoning her with silicone. Ultimately, due to inadequate health care, death-for-profit insurance companies, and Transphobia running rampant in health care, Tuesday is forced to flee the country to get the medical care she needs to survive.

Following the COVID-19 lock-down, Tuesday triumphantly returns to the stage. She knows the only reason she has survived while so many of her kind have perished, is to make people happy and heal them through laughter.

As Tuesday says, “There aren’t many trans women who are left at this age.” Tuesday shares her story so that future generations can learn from her rare wisdom, and to honor all her friends who have been lost along the way who are unable to share their own.