In the college town of Missoula, pride flags are as common a sight as the peaks of Montana’s Rattlesnake Mountains.
The sun rises beyond Mount Sentinel and downtown Missoula, Mont., Tuesday, April 25, 2023. It was little surprise that Missoula, a college town where pride flags are a common sight, sent Zooey Zephyr to the state legislature. Zephyr, the first openly transgender legislator in Montanas history, was barred last week from speaking on the floor of the legislature by the Republican majority. – Even a downtown crosswalk is rainbow-colored.
Nestled in a narrow valley at the northwestern edge of the state, Missoula is proud of its funky, countercultural style. This week, the hot ticket was the International Wildlife Film Festival, featuring a parade in which people dressed in animal costumes marched through downtown. Andy Nelson grew up in a town of 750 in eastern Montana, and only felt comfortable coming out as gay as a senior at the University of Montana, when he volunteered at The Center, a LGBTQ+ community group in Missoula where he is now executive director. He remembered long discussions about whether such a group was still necessary after same-sex marriage was legalized nationally in 2015. But that all changed in 2016, with the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.
Cork has been traveling up to the Capitol in Helena to speak against the legislation affecting transgender people since it was first introduced. After Zephyr was silenced, he joined dozens of others from Missoula at the Capitol this week, where they began crying, “Let her speak!” after she was gagged yet again. Seven demonstrators were arrested.
“If you're transgender, I don't care,” Sayler said, adding he had little sympathy for Zephyr. “She stepped out of bounds.”
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