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Longtime Florida columnist retires after 56 years, calls state a “gay-bashing authoritarian dystopia”
In his farewell column, he recounts a career covering a never-ending spate of tragedies, including natural disasters, KKK rallies, mass murders, drug wars and civil war.
But nothing has been more toxic, he says, than the current atmosphere in his home state. Stay woke with our briefing while staying informed on all things LGBTQ+ entertainment, life, and more!“Not that it hasn’t been fun chronicling Florida’s descent into a waterlogged, python-infested, uninsurable, hurricane-pummeled, book-banning, gay-bashing authoritarian dystopia, but I’m outta here,” he writes in the lede.
For the duration of the piece, Grimm shifts between sober observation and caustic cynicism–like every great newspaper columnist.
He says he realized early in his career that editors issue “bulletproof vests” to photographers, while outfitting reporters with “skinny notebooks and Bic pens.”For most of the last five decades, that was all the armor Grimm needed.