You bring to mind a frustrated response I often have when I see comments on social media to my stories.

I’ll write about somebody in Oklahoma or Texas or Kentucky suffering persecution because they’re LGBTQ, and I will inevitably get a slew of responses about how awful and disgusting and irredeemably evil those states are.

And I just think to myself, you know, the people I’m writing about who are suffering live in those states. Those states are the homes that they love.

How helpful is it to just trash on their homes? Can’t we come up with some kind of better response?