re: #2 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

So you all might remember me commenting about going to a Alpaca ranch this summer. The Name of the ranch is The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch. A documentary about the ranch drops next year. Here’s a trailer for it. CW/TW: They are very pro firearms & self defense and for a very good reason. Behind the tag for those not interested.

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I see they’re on the front page at NPR.

There’s a 6-foot-tall fence going up around the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch in rural Custer County, Colo. The people who live there say they need it because they’ve been the target of harassment since they relocated the trans-friendly ranch there in 2020.

The perimeter fence will add security to the ranch, which also has newly installed security cameras. There’s a tension on the property, so much so that co-owner Penny Logue and fellow owner Bonnie Nelson, both transgender women, carry pistols at all times. One wall of the communal geodesic-dome ranch house is stocked with various assault weapons.

“There’s some degree where we want that [militaristic] perspective,” Nelson said. “All we want is to be left alone.”

A Would-Be Trans And Queer Haven In Rural Colorado Just Wants To Be Left Alone