Three acts frame the events of the three balls Schofield attended
at ages 16, 18, and 21, in Charlotte, NC and Greenville, SC.
As friends “come out” into their respective upper class, white, and (mostly) heterosexual, traditionally-gendered social circles, Schofield provides commentary from the periphery and draws parallels with his own comings of age.

When first we meet in this Gala Ball of Coming Out, Schofield tells the story of his first Debutante Ball:
“My first deb ball was the perfect cover-up / my deb friend, the perfect alibi.” Theorizing and word-play about the act of Coming Out evolve into disco dancing and a Sweet Tea communion as this teenage lesbian lies to her mother, organizes a gay prom, and dances on the lawn of the Jesse Helms Library in Wingate, NC (and, of course, gets caught).

Schofield’s Inner Radical Feminist comes out to play in the second act, where slam poetry-style narrative carries Schofield’s fantasies of direct action, Debutante style:
“We’d start a line dance of empowerment / a feminist Electric Slide / …it would be a moment of radical, / women centered / whateveryoucallit / to topple the hierarchies / on which these balls were founded / and which these balls / (why they gotta be called balls, anyway?) / represent and perpetuate.”

This leads into the third act: an exploration of the personal-political hijinx involved when (Schofield’s) non-traditional gender expression invades the Land of the Traditionally Gendered, at his third ball in Greenville, South Carolina.