Haha, The Backdoor! I spent many a Saturday night there, as it was pretty much the only decent dance floor around. The stamp they put on your hand is a sparkly unicorn.
I would also be interested in LGBTQ stories from people who grew up in the still largely white, conservative, Christian/evangelical suburbs of large cities. When I was a teenager in a suburb of DFW, our next-door neighbors were a lesbian couple. Looking back, I wonder what it must’ve been like for them, living in neighborhoods just saturated with Jesus fish and the like.
I mean, they were white, cisgender, and at high income levels, so their suffering was perhaps not sky-high, but it still must’ve been stressful in some way. As far as I know, everyone was friendly and no hate crimes were done against them - hell, my family was equally at risk as one of the few non-white families in the area - but still.
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I would also be interested in LGBTQ stories from people who grew up in the still largely white, conservative, Christian/evangelical suburbs of large cities. When I was a teenager in a suburb of DFW, our next-door neighbors were a lesbian couple. Looking back, I wonder what it must’ve been like for them, living in neighborhoods just saturated with Jesus fish and the like.
I mean, they were white, cisgender, and at high income levels, so their suffering was perhaps not sky-high, but it still must’ve been stressful in some way. As far as I know, everyone was friendly and no hate crimes were done against them - hell, my family was equally at risk as one of the few non-white families in the area - but still.