I seem to have misunderstood your original comment. Please forgive me. I thought you meant that the contention that police wouldn't do anything was bullshit, and that police would actually do something.

And you know that, how? Do you live in the neighborhood? Or even in our city? Have you called the police on this woman and actually had a response worth noting?

One way we can fight back is to just connect more widely, and more deeply within the greater LGBTQ+ community.

Make your living by day, fight in the evenings and on the weekends, but don't forget to dance - and invite folks you don't know along the way.

That call may be the reason the trigger lock stays on his .38 Special that night.

Many of us are so busy right now just trying to figure what we're supposed to be scared of next, that I think we may be forgetting that there are others who are likely spinning harder than we are.

might be what helps him make a better decision, even if you don't fuck.

And you know that one guy that you stopped inviting to pool parties and movie nights, and you can't really remember why? Call him just to say "hello, you crossed my mind. How are you?" See where the conversation takes you.

the one without the muscles or the perky butt - may be trying to decide if tonight is the night he swaps his cranberry soda for a Captain Morgan and Coke and relapse after a decade of sobriety. You going over and introducing yourself

I do see us coming together within our chosen circles, but I don't see enough reaching across our own, self imposed aisles represented by our LGBTQ+ alphabet, nor across the aisles of our subcommunities - leather, drag, recovery, fitness, etc.

That new face in the corner of the bar - you know,

this bastard represents to our entire community.

And early data since the election suggests this is going to get increasingly worse throughout this current reign of terror.

We must come together now more tightly and genuinely than we have since the Reagan years of the AIDS crisis.

many who significantly increased their use of mind-altering substances just to deal with the fear of his administration.

All of this data points to the disconnected feelings that a whole god damned lot of Queer folks feel in normal times that is compounded by the threat

And during the first term this orange shitgibbon held office all of those numbers increased 40%.

Another bit of data:

During his first term we saw a 60% increase in substance abuse treatment admissions among LGBTQ folks - many had relapsed after having been sober for a period of time, and just as

I figured when he tried to shut everything down all at once and it didn't work, he'd go surgical and start with trans-focused grant programs. Tell everyone to go to St. John's Community Health if their regular provider is unable to withstand the temporary cuts. We've a brand new clinic in Indio.