An increasingly unwelcoming Texas leads to a big goodbye.
“[Texas is] becoming a place where ideas are banned and history is censored, rights are oppressed, and identities are illegal.” It was one of the last stops on Egerton's big goodbye tour before he and his family leave Austin and move to Boston."Goodbye to places, goodbye to favorite coffee shops, favorite quiet spots, favorite secret spots," he told me. Under the watchful eye of his loyal but heat-drowsy dogs, we sat in his living room as he began packing up.
What made it even more infuriating was that his little sister, who was only a babe in arms at the time, even she got to go out. Ah, the pains of being a middle kid. Still, that explains a lot.Middle kid, attention seeker, and a defining part of Austin's writing, comedy, and film scenes since he moved here in 1991.
But now he's really exiting: Or rather, it's exeunt for the whole Egerton family, and the reason is not that Owen is suddenly successful enough to escape the velvet rut. It's in the sound coming from one of the bedrooms, the giggling of teenagers. Egerton may be a celebrity, but he's a parent first."When we started realizing how dangerous Texas was for families with trans kids, we knew we had to get out of here. ...
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