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joshie (pronounsed YAH-shee) (skaficianado@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 08:18:43 JST joshie (pronounsed YAH-shee)
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i came out to my wife (and all of mastodon, *naturally*) recently. many feelings have been had, but the most devastating is this:
she hopes i don't "fully" transition to a woman because she would fear for my safety.
we live in Louisville, KY. i feel safe in my usual spaces, but....
anyway, totally cool that after finally understanding who i am (i am 42 years old) means i get to be possibly assaulted or killed. totally cool. greatest country in the world, man. ☠️

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  gz (godzero@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 08:18:43 JST gz
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  Perhaps we need the LGBTQ equivalent of this:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
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    The Negro Motorist Green Book
    
    The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded by Victor Hugo Green, an African American, New York City postal worker who published it annually from 1936 to 1966. This was during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against African Americans especially and other non-whites was widespread. While pervasive racial discrimination and poverty limited black car ownership, the emerging African American middle class bought automobiles as soon as they could, but faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences along the road, from refusal of food and lodging to arbitrary arrest. In response, Green wrote his guide to services and places relatively friendly to African Americans, eventually, he also founded a travel agency. Many black Americans took to driving, in part to avoid segregation on public transportation. As the writer George Schuyler put it in 1930, "all Negroes who can do so purchase an automobile as soon as possible in order to be free of discomfort, discrimination...

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