
We're gay and things are bad
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My name is Steven and my partner is Alexander and we live in South Florida, a region with one of the most enormous chasms of income inequality in the entire country, which will likely only deepen and widen for people like us considering who our current president is. We are in desperate need of assistance so we can leave this city and potentially get a brand new start in the Springfield, MO area. A close friend of my partner's has offered us at minimum a place to stay while we get established and find work in the area, which with cursory research is infinitely much more affordable to live in than Miami will ever be. Due to circumstances beyond our control my partner has gone over 2 years without work and as such we currently live on only one source of income which is constantly stretched to its limit. As much as we try to keep superfluous spending to a minimum, attempting to generate savings is nearly impossible with our current financial situation.
EDIT for transparency: As Alex and I have not been living with his mother as of mid-January, most of the following is no longer entirely relevant to our situation but is preserved here for posteriority.
We are lucky that Alex's mother (herself being another MAJOR PROBLEM I will get to in a moment) lets us rent a room in her home at a rate much lower than anywhere else in the area, however it is still way higher than I can comfortably afford from month to month. Keep in mind that I still have to pay to feed 2 people (occasionally his mother and brother as well), make car insurance payments, pay a monthly cellphone bill, union dues and health insurance (which Alex does not have). Even if Alex was currently working, average housing costs would too prohibitive to live on our own or frankly even with roommates either in our current area with our expenses. Then we turn to the matter of Alex's mother, whom we rent from and live with. To say the least, she is an emotionally manipulative, dishonest, and cruel person who on a nearly weekly basis will threaten to render us homeless for the tiniest slights and offenses, from not cleaning a single dish exactly to her liking to leaving the window blinds open at night. I have a place to go if we were thrown out, but Alex would not be welcome there beyond an occasional visit (we've asked several times). She claims she is doing us a greater service than she actually is offering and believes she is owed tenfold what we pay her and so she sets an impossibly high double standard for her son in a sort of "tough love" situation while holding thinly veiled contempt for our relationship. She flatly is uncomfortable around me as she can not strongly control me due to not having condition me to the way she treated her son for 23 years which itself is troubling. Alex has told me several times that she has driven him to have suicidal ideations as a result of her treatment. We need help to get out of here as quickly as possible. The money we are asking for will cover car repairs and moving and travel expenses; anything further will assist us with some initial living costs. Please share this with others and contribute whatever you feel comfortable with, thank you.
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Steven Izquierdo
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Miami, FL