“Get out of Germany while you still can,” one Tennessee politician told someone when they asked what to do.
conditions, queer and trans people living rurally—especially in states like Tennessee and Florida—face impossible choices: Do they uproot, leaving behind their quiet lives, gardens, and favorite hiking and foraging spots? Or do they stay, in these places where some of their families have lived for generations and others have painstakingly forged queer community where none existed, at possible risk to their health and safety? Either path is fraught with fear, uncertainty, and the grief of losing...
For eight years now, Jack has lived among woodland queer and trans folk who get their water from a spring and electricity from the sun. Most of their milk and eggs come from goats and chickens raised on the land, and in the summer, the community’s garden produces as much as a third of the vegetables they eat.
Jack long assumed that the secret to rural queer existence was to keep it “quiet and hidden.” But even as they’ve felt the effects of anti-trans moral panic growing over the past five years, they now question whether laying low is really the best defense.Earlier this year, after a gay man Jack knows was assaulted by someone on horseback, a group of friends accompanied him to speak about the experience at a board meeting for the local horseback riding association.
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