How do you identify? Gay cisgender man.

Being stuck in a job that isn’t paying the bills –– or with no job at all –– can feel hard to escape in South Florida. 

At Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Queer Hike Club SFL gathered for a fall weekend defined by fireside songs and collective movement. Fog and dew clung to the trails at sunrise before giving way to sunshine filtering through the trees, as hikers, campers, and paddlers arrived ready to share the land together. 

For those old enough to remember, or if you watch MeTV, you may recall the television series The Twilight Zone.

I spent one day of my weekend visiting Universal Orlando Resort, wandering the Yellow Brick Road.

Economic mobility usually assumes a starting line: a bedroom to return to, a parent to call, a place to regroup after things go wrong. For many LGBTQ young adults in South Florida, that starting line never existed.