I don't know whether I think the "significant other" is necessarily involved or not. As a guilty party, I mean.
I live in a tiny town in central KY and can only imagine how "welcome" either a black guy (Whitesville's 98%* white) or a transsexual (especially if they're together) would be in a rural town. We're currently politically/racially in a time where the chasm between "those folks" and "regular folks" is as wide as it has been decades.
*That is for the town itself. He disappeared from a few miles south/SE from the actual town.
I live in a tiny town in central KY and can only imagine how "welcome" either a black guy (Whitesville's 98%* white) or a transsexual (especially if they're together) would be in a rural town. We're currently politically/racially in a time where the chasm between "those folks" and "regular folks" is as wide as it has been decades.
*That is for the town itself. He disappeared from a few miles south/SE from the actual town.