Skrbec said that, compared with the South, LGBTQ people are more integrated in the community in Minnesota. As a result, there are fewer distinct LGBTQ spaces, such as nightclubs and bars. “The challenge with that,” he said, “is that any minority needs to have a place where they can recharge, where they can kind of center themselves, and refocus themselves. And a lot of times that happens in relatively exclusive, protected safe spaces, and we really don’t have a lot of those in Minnesota.”
