Trans Model Carmen Carrera Took Lemons and Made Lemonade at Doomed Fyre Festival

As tempers continue to smolder over last month's ill-fated Fyre Music Festival in the Bahamas that promised world-class cuisine and entertainment but delivered cheese sandwiches and pandemonium, one well-known transgender model and activist is calling the fiasco a positive experience.

Carmen Carrera, known as a contestant on Season 3 of "RuPaul's Drag Race," was at the Fyre Festival last month. Although she experienced the same disappointments (missing luggage, disaster relief tents, no food, etc.), she walked away from the experience feeling good about humanity.

Admittedly, she was concerned that amid the pandemonium some of the other stranded concertgoers might have a problem with her being trans.

"A lot of the time, trans people face the fear or live in stealth because they don't want to feel the stigma, or feel alienated or go through any of those traumatic experiences," Carrera said in an interview with the New York Post.

Eventually she saw it as a rare moment to show strangers who she is as a person.

"I actually shared my story," Carrera said. "I'm very proud to be transgender . . . I opened up a lot of eyes, and at the same time, I enjoyed myself."

"A lot of these people [at Fyre Festival] have their own businesses, they're established individuals, many who come from a place of privilege, so they don't really get to interact with a trans person," she told New York Post. "I finally got to be in a place where I feel like we saw eye-to-eye"

And while class action lawsuits continue to mount up against the producers of the festival, it's unlikely that Carrera will be involved in one. According to the Post, she attended the festival for free.