link: Meet the Minnesotans Still Determined to Create Covid-Safer Spaces

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Meet the Minnesotans Still Determined to Create Covid-Safer Spaces, from Racket, a Minneapolis writer-owned site.

Jesse said that the group intentionally chose the name Antidote to represent the ways in which their parties counteract the “isolation and despair” that comes from being part of a minority of people that still have restricted lifestyles after four years of the pandemic.

“I've always loved going out to clubs and queer bars,” they say. “Those are such liberatory, affirming spaces to me, and not having access to that for the past four years has been a huge loss for me personally. Creating these spaces ourselves is a way we can combat the isolation.”