#queer florida

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[kpopwinemom]

As a queer Floridian, I genuinely hate how some of y'all, including other and former Floridians talk about my state.

This is my home. This is where I was born, where I grew up, where I went to school. And y'all just shit on it relentlessly. It just sucks.

First of all, non-Floridians seem to think that liberal Floridians don't exist, like we're not fighting everyday for LGTBQ rights, women's rights, immigrant rights. You think we have no safe havens, no refuges, no sanctuaries. We have all of the above. We have rainbow crosswalks still, even though our governor wants them gone. We have gay clubs, and wine bars and coffee shops and breweries. There are meet ups and bookclubs and drag shows, there are protests and parties.

We are here, and we are doing the best we can to make this place safe not just for ourselves but for all the people who come after us.

Florida is beautiful. There are miles of beaches and reefs. There are The Everglades. There's swampland and marshes and springs and creeks and rivers. There's birds singing outside my window, and gators in the canal, sometimes. I can eat fresh seafood caught in my own backyard every day. It's warm year round, and it's got a long growing season.

But it's not just the wildlife that I love about Florida. My parents are here. My brother, my sister in law, my fifteen month old nephew. The house I grew up in, the place where my dad taught me how to throw a cast net and cast a fishing pole and get crabs out of the trap. The place where I learned to drink a beer, and skinny-dipped at midnight. The place where I learned to eat a girl out, parked off of a side road late at night.

This is my home. I'm not leaving. I wish you would stop talking about it like it's hopeless, like we're lost and the only thing to do is to get out. You need to realize that leaving, too, is a privilege not everyone has. Some of us have to stay. So some of us have to stay and fight. And I'd appreciate it if you could respect that.

[err0rose]

FLORIDA TRANS PPL PLS BE MY FRIEND

[autisticarachnid]

i live in florida. yes, florida. in central florida we hold a state fair with an area known as “cracker country”- dedicated to recreating period accurate buildings of the 1800’s and informing people about floridian history.

and there’s just. something about my girlfriend and i, both queer, nonbinary people, going to cracker country and getting a photo of us kissing in front of the general store. in public, in an area themed around floridian history, when our governor is actively trying to erase queer history and queer people.

i once saw a patch that went along the lines of “existing in a world that wants you dead is resistance”, and it really speaks to me because yeah. it is. queer people have existed since the earliest civilizations. we have proof and records. no amount of erasure and censorship can get rid of that.

we’re here, we’re queer, and we will continue to exist in the face of erasure, of censorship, of discriminatory laws and fascism. we exist. we persist. don’t ever forget that.

[teodorasolis]

A girl who grew up in Florida when it was more chill processes its rapid decline

[doveblight]

are there like. any other queer floridians here on tumblr dot com. anyone born and raised here. no matter if youre choosing to or trying to escape, or either having no choice or deliberately choosing to stay here and weather the ensuing shitstorm.

i just want to let you all know that you aren't alone. no matter what