Murder by rhetoric
Hate speech from anti-gay politicians, right-wing religious leaders spurs violence towards LGBTQ people When I was in high school, my twin sister and our friends and I liked to “parking lot dance party” — and yes, I am using that entire phrase as a verb, because we didn’t GO to parking lot dance parties.
We created them. The rules were silly and simple: My sister or I would drive our big red minivan (nicknamed the “Big Red Bitch”) to a parking lot.
Everyone would pile out, and we’d open all of the doors and the back hatch and blast whatever song was playing. Everybody danced for at least one full song, and then we’d pile back in and drive to a different parking lot and repeat.
I remember that the local Big Lots parking lot was a favorite because it was big and not very crowded. This was pre-internet, so we did not take videos of these events and put them online.
