As the Human Rights Campaign declares a “national state of emergency” for queer people in the U.S., filmmakers, singers and drag performers talk about the heartbreaking choices they are making between staying put and resisting or moving: “I’ve lost my freedom to live in society.”
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And so, she made the painful decision to start over in New York. “I left,” says Ayers, who has started a GoFundMe to aid her new life. “I feel like I had to leave. I felt like I had no other choice.”Across the South, LGBTQIA+ performers and creatives are being forced to contemplate leaving their homes as states including Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Georgia pass bills targeting their community.
With more than 525 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in 41 states so far in 2023 and more than 75 signed into law , civil rights group The Human Rights Campaign declared a “national state of emergency” on June 6. This backlash has come amid decades of progress, with queer creative communities flourishing in growing entertainment hubs like Miami, Austin, Nashville and Atlanta. Many queer artists living in these metropolises have long been wary of venturing out of their liberal enclaves . This fear has increased in recent years. “I shot a feature last year, and I left the state to shoot because I was like, ‘I don’t feel like I can job it here.
Nashville filmmaker Christin Baker encountered this phenomenon recently. “I did a creative retreat where people came from out of town and were really nervous, and I would have to talk with them and be like, ‘I promise you this is a safe space,’ ” Baker says. “What you see out there is not what you will experience when you come here.
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