LGBTQ+ people are leaving Florida. They blame the Legislature. [View all]
Source: Tampa Bay Times
LGBTQ+ people are leaving Florida. They blame the Legislature.
Hannah Critchfield, Tampa Bay Times
Mon, April 24, 2023 at 7:00 AM EDT
June can’t come soon enough for Nikkie Jackson.
Rainbow windsocks no longer wave from her apartment balcony. She removed them in March, along with the magnet on her car that read, “I’m so gay I s—t rainbows.”
When her lease is up this summer, Jackson will return to Illinois after two years in the Sunshine State.
“I spent 30 years in the closet, and I won’t be going back now,” Jackson, a lesbian in Jacksonville, said through tears. “But I’m scared — if they’re targeting trans people now, they’ll eventually come for the rest of us.”
In the wake of a wave of Florida legislation taking aim at LGBTQ+ issues, some people are abandoning life here.
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