What if I don’t want to leave Texas? The only option for LGBT+ southerners should not be, “Just move somewhere else.”
I don’t have any attachment to “somewhere else”. I don’t have a community “somewhere else”. I have to start from scratch “somewhere else”, and that should not be my only option. That should not be the option people in big, northern, liberal cities give me whenever I talk about the political climate in the south.
I want to make the south safe for me and mine, not abandon it entirely. This is my home. These are my roots. We should be focused on making these places better, not writing them off as a lost cause.