LGBT

I was with a guy who had hair down to his waist and a long beard, another guy with shoulder length hair and a Chinese woman. I had long Janis Joplin hair with huge octogonal pink glasses - so we basically looked like hippies. As a teenager I traveler around in TX with my cousins. The only place where I actually feared for my life was in TX. Our car would have been stolen except my German Shepherd was there. There were scratch marks on the outside from them trying to jimmy the door and sratches on the inside from Rota protecting the van. Two other times we were hasseled in that state, they even wouldn't let Linda use the telephone because she wasn't white. LA, the cops tried to shake us down (2 times) and MS got hasseled at another restaurant. I never had any issues in public places in FL. even when I was a young hippie.

I also developed rules for traveling in the south. Don't stop in small towns - ever - too risky - even to get gas. Fill up at places off the freeway, not in some podunk town, unless it's a college town. College towns and big cities are safer in general.

I'm now old and white, so not a target anymore, but my LGBTQ son still follows this and has not been hasseled here either.