I grew up here and swear to God I almost want to run for governor with the slogan “Make Florida Freaky Again” We are not built for this conservative imbalance. We have churches and strip clubs, a strong tradition of tolerance and acceptance of, well, freaks. Circus people, drag queens, swingers. I grew up hanging out with drag queens and old gay dudes in leather and punks and skinheads at the same concerts. And even our version of the absolute scourge of racism, while nasty as fuck, we don’t really have as much geographic segregation, I’ve never lived in a “white” or “black” neighborhood, they are often majority one or the other but not homogeneous and it’s block by block. It was way, way too violent when I was young but that had already gotten better before this sudden turn to the fascist side. How the fuck did we get here? How can anyone, with a straight face, say drag queens don’t belong here? In two years a pivot from my kid’s middle school teacher doing a drag performance at the teacher and student talent show, to this being an unimaginable affront, contributing to the delinquency of minors or something? What state do they think they are in? Go to Alabama, assholes. It’s you who are destroying our heritage.

Sorry, this rant has been building a long time.