“I triple-check my doors at night to make sure they are locked,” said a St. George resident and LGBTQ advocate. “I also talk to my friends more than I ever have and make sure they are OK, and I have to be aware of who is around me at all times.”
Protesters picket outside the Southern Utah Pride Festival in St. George in September.More than a week after a gunman killed five people and wounded 19 others at a gay nightclub in Colorado, members of the LGBTQ community in the St. George area are experiencing an all-too-familiar emotion: fear.
“If you’re a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared — not because any of us ever harmed you but because you find it useful — then don’t you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows. Don’t you dare act surprised,” tweeted Buttigieg, the first openly gay presidential Cabinet member to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Knight remembers the fear she felt going to a City Council meeting last summer to voice support for drag shows. A meeting of the Liberty Action Coalition, which the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights recently, further roiled emotions. During her remarks at the October meeting, coalition founder Patricia Kent displayed pictures of youth at a pride event in St. George.
“My car, which has gay stickers on it, has been tampered with on multiple occasions,” said Storey, a Safe Zone trainer in southern Utah who offers free workshops to help businesses and community members better understand LGBTQ culture and terminology and how to keep people safe if problems arise.“I’ve had people pull up alongside me [in their vehicles] waving their MAGA hats and honking and screaming at me,” Storey continued.
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