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Pride Looking for Safety Together Is Self Look after and Activism

By Marie Lindberg

Last month, I was in a very conservative state for a funeral with my fiance. As a queer couple, we stick out there. I experience frequent staring, passive-aggressive comments, and cruel bumper stickers, and signs in shops that are fundraising for homophobic organizations .

While we were there, my fiance and I took her mother’s dog to the dog park. Immediately a person introduced herself to us and, with very little pretense, she asked us if we knew of safe places for “people like us.” We didn’t possess to ask what she meant – this kind of coded language is something you pluck up on quickly in marginalized communities – and I knew she was hoping we might have suggestions for queer-friendly spaces that are havens from the otherness we are made to feel here.

My first suggestion was that she move somewhere new; Santa Fe (which has one of the highest concentrations of queer families in the U.S.) where I live now has freed me of having to find islands o