- Washington
- Colorado
- District of Columbia
- California
- Minnesota
I’d love to hear why other trans and queer refugee folks picked their state! Perhaps I should move to Washington?
I’d love to hear why other trans and queer refugee folks picked their state! Perhaps I should move to Washington?
I’m a cis male, so I can’t speak from the perspective of an LGBTQ+ person, just an ally. I definitely want to echo that Eastern WA (east of the Cascades) is much more conservative than western WA. As someone who lives in Spokane and moved from the west side of the state, I hear can be a better place, but frankly it’s relative to eastern WA and Idaho. Spokane is a short drive (~30 minutes or so) to Idaho, and even less-so to its counterpart Spokane Valley. Even then, it’s a stark contrast between north Spokane city and south Spokane city.
Puget Sound, specifically King county, will be the best place in my opinion for Washington. The greater Seattle metro and i5 corridor is probably the right place to start looking. Keep in mind the further from Seattle and Capitol Hill you go, the more pockets of right-wing you find.
Agreed, 100%. I live in Pierce County, Eastside Tacoma, and I didn’t have to go too far last election season to see loads of MAGA signs and signs of support for whatever local MAGA-heads; basically just outside the city limits. I’ve lived here for 7 years, and haven’t once had issues with anyone personally, but they’re certainly around here.
I’m in White Center/Burien and there are pockets of conservative people here, but the majority are left leaning liberal/centrist. I feel safe in my neighborhood, and you can tell the conservative houses from a distance. There is a weird obsession with treating houseless folks like they are not people, though.