'In asking my girlfriend to spend the rest of her life with me, and with no plans to live elsewhere, I am once again reminded that this place I love dearly has not always loved me back.' 📝 Kristen_Arnett
hen I asked my girlfriend to marry me, I had just finished staunching a pretty serious nosebleed. It was Christmas morning, still early. Frost bleaching the window panes. We were staying at her parents’ house in Richmond, Va., for the holidays. It was incredibly cold and the heat had been running nonstop throughout the night. I’m third-generation Floridian; I’ve seen snow only a handful of times and often joke that I’m a bona fide swamp creature that needs humidity to survive.
But in asking my girlfriend to spend the rest of her life with me, and with no plans to live elsewhere, I am once again reminded that this place I love dearly has not always loved me back. As a queer person living in a conservative state, I have long been subject to laws denying my rights. Other LGBTQ+ people have chosen to move away, rightfully worried by the lack of care and concern from our lawmakers. It is a precarious and destabilizing way to live.
My fiancée – who had never been to Florida before dating me – understands how much this state means to me.
But there are also plenty of things to fear in the Sunshine State. Log onto the internet and you’re inundated with an avalanche of Florida problems: hurricanes and flooding and climate change. Poisonous animals and humongous insects. Sharks and alligators . And, of course, the source of almost all of my anxiety:
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