➤ INDA EATON, from p.35
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a relationship to ‘I don’t want to put clothes on,’”
says Eaton, with a cautious smirk.
Her ability to connect to an audience is her
calling card — and even one-on-one, she always
manages to corral her stream of consciousness
into artfully crafted, thoughtful sentences.
I recently caught up with Eaton via Zoom
from her home in Springs, where she has been
sheltering in place with her wife Annemarie.
How does it feel to get back on stage again?
It feels energizing, life-affi rming, to be out
there with the music — with the kind of year
we’ve had it’s the icing on the cake since we
have not been able to gather, not had that fellowship,
not had that music.
I’m going out, but with intention — I am vaccinated
and fully cooked, and it feels good. I am
also of the mind that this could all be taken
away at any moment.
It feels like somebody coming out of frostbite —
it “feels.” I feel in every direction. Not to say that I
didn’t feel last year, but I think I had frostbite.
What do you love?
I love my wife (married 10 years, together
over 17 years). I love my family — that is an interchangeable
word. I love my community, and
I love my Dad. We talk every day.
The last song on Shelter in Place is a ballad
you wrote called “Once,” about being
afraid to tell a friend in Wyoming that you
are gay. What happened?
I knew Brian for over 25 years. We were having
dinner in Wyoming and he looks at my ring
and says, ‘Did I miss something?’ I was taken
aback, but he didn’t know I was married to Annemarie.
It was a real ‘aha! moment’ — we knew
each other for so long, and he didn’t know this.
Why hadn’t you told him — and what happened
when you did?
I think I put him in a box, probably like he
put me in a box. I had profi led him as a red
Republican, and he had profi led me as a crazy,
left-wing, progressive chick singer.
I said, ‘Oh yeah, I got married,’ and he got
tears in his eyes, this big burly bear of a guy,
and he said, “Why don’t I know that? It’s so signifi
cant!” Then we both starting balling; it was a
real cry-a-thon. I think it hit us both how many
years of a friendship we had both missed.
Then, sadly, two years later, he died in a motorcycle
accident. I knew him for 25 years, and
the last two years were spectacular.
What was it like coming out to your family
in Wyoming?
It did not go well. I remember it being a holy
nightmare scenario; it was horrible. I think by
today’s standards I came out to them late —
maybe at age 28. My brother and sister thought
it was “cool,” my dad was great about it in his
way.
But the women… I don’t even know now if I
have recovered; I think I slathered it up with humor
and kept walking. Our people come from the
town that Matthew Shepard is from in Wyoming
(Casper), so there’s a lot of heaviness to it.
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