Also going to post this as a resource for queer brethren/sistren/enbythren who feel as if they, justifiably, do not want to spend the next four years in a red state looking over their shoulders all the time.
TCP is based in Denver, Colorado, and is currently mostly focused on helping trans folks get out of places like Texas and Florida, but they describe themselves as a “queer relocation nonprofit” and will work with queer and GNC people of any stripe who are stuck in unfriendly environments and would like to consider coming to CO. They have seen a huge increase in aid requests since the election for sadly understandable reasons and there is a waitlist, but even if they may not be able to help you directly at this very moment, they can possibly connect you with other resources/organizations/etc.
I was born in CO, so I am biased, but it does have:
A Democratic supermajority in the legislature and a Democratic governor/secretary of state/Attorney General;
A majority-Democratic House delegation (except for uh, Lauren Boebert) and two Democratic senators;
Robust protections for LGBTQ+ folks;
Abortion rights codified in the constitution (it serves as a sanctuary state for care in the Rocky Mountain West);
Great scenery and outdoor activities; four seasons; a refreshing lack of summertime humidity; beautiful mountains; winter and summer sports (hiking, skiiing, etc); 300 days of sunshine a year, even in winter;
Fun cities and cultural institutions/sports teams/museums/etc;
DIA (Denver International Airport) is one of the busiest in the nation and the world and you can very easily get most places;
Easy and universal mail-in voting and expansion of voting access;
It is admittedly expensive (especially along the Front Range) but considerably less so than say, New York, Boston, Seattle, DC, Los Angeles, or other big blue cities;
Legal weed (if you are into that Rocky Mountain High);
And so forth!
Basically, you will be as safe as you can possibly be for the next four years in CO, so it’s certainly worth checking out this site if you are a queer person in a red state and feel as if it may be time to make some exit plans. I will also answer questions so much as I can.
I am finding out that a lot of things I thought were common knowledge about Christian Fundamentalism are not in fact common knowledge.
Like with the aid freeze, people were like why would they do this? And I was like cause they want churches to be the only option for aid.
And people were shocked. And I was also shocked that this wasn’t like…more well known. I grew up with people who were anti-aid because they felt that belonged to the church and made people behave more worldly if they could get it elsewhere. It was so well known it was a debate topic in my Philosophy of Religion course in high school.
I’m just…I’m concerned at how little some groups seem to know about Christian Fundamentalism. I wish I could help translate more.
Yes! I’ve heard this as well!
One of my friends asked if they wanted people to die and I was so confused because yes, of course they do. That’s a feature not a bug.
People in my church would talk about people who needed aid but didn’t or couldn’t work as parasites who represented an active threat to able bodied and working people. It’s a zero sum game to them.
It’s the coming eugenics that is in those thoughts processes that is really upsetting to me.
I grew up non-mormon in Utah and studied religion and I didn’t not no until a few years ago that Fundamentalists don’t think Catholics are Christian, it blew my mind.
Also, this article was helpful in understanding why they seem to think empathy is a sin. It’s so bonkers and backwards!
Why can’t real life cities be 10 mile tall gothic metropolises with red and black and skulls and statues of weeping saints everywhere
Can confirm
Also this works surprisingly well with the “Gotham is Chicago while Metropolis is NYC” theory (though isn’t Gotham canonically in southern New Jersey?)
come to chicago we have:
the council of owls (on the library downtown)
carbon and carbide
goth target
wayne enterprises
you can study here but it’s at u chicago so. not worth it, probably.
our normal streets
the shadow realm (lower wacker)
the forbidden zone (lower lower wacker)
public art with threatening auras
one of our many fine gothic revival apartment buildings (i picked this on bc it’s red and black)
newspaper building and chewing gum building
i could go on but you get the point, yeah? chicago’s got some incredible broody architecture. we’re lucky to live here.
my single prediction for 2021 is there will suddenly be a widespread increase in thyroid issues in wealthy upper and middle class people due to their obsession with uniodized pink himalayan salt
The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline.
Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.”
“Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies.
“Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted.
The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.
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