ErgonWolf on Nostr: Back in the early Nineties when I was a baby queer, if you travelled to any city ...
Back in the early Nineties when I was a baby queer, if you travelled to any city anywhere you looked up the LGBTQ bookstore. And there you would find, along with a lot of queer books and merchandise carefully curated by the shop owners for their city, usually a City Guide that would tell you the places that were safe for you to go if you were queer.
It's only been about 30 years since it was unsafe to go to a restaurant or hotel or many other public accommodations as an identifiably queer couple. I was thrown out of a restaurant with my first boyfriend because we casually touched hands across the table. More than once I've been sat in the least desirable location in the restaurant while out with a male date; also more than once had our service degraded to the point that we left.
It should be hanging a rainbow flag outside your establishment is a signal that you are a safe space for queer people.
Now it's becoming a target for people who hate queer people.
Early genocide territory.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/20/california-shop-owner-shot-dead-over-lgbtq-pride-flag
It's only been about 30 years since it was unsafe to go to a restaurant or hotel or many other public accommodations as an identifiably queer couple. I was thrown out of a restaurant with my first boyfriend because we casually touched hands across the table. More than once I've been sat in the least desirable location in the restaurant while out with a male date; also more than once had our service degraded to the point that we left.
It should be hanging a rainbow flag outside your establishment is a signal that you are a safe space for queer people.
Now it's becoming a target for people who hate queer people.
Early genocide territory.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/20/california-shop-owner-shot-dead-over-lgbtq-pride-flag