My queer kiddo has been yelled slurs while walking on the sidewalk by cars of adults driving past. They have been attacked several times by high schoolers resulting in police reports.

By the number of “let’s go Brandon” flag in the area I have to disagree that people don’t advertise their politics here.

I’m glad that your kids felt safe in Shelton decades ago, but it isn’t the case now.

We are in Shelton. You may not find anything in your home price range but it might be close if you have flexibility. It’s close to Olympia, which is nice. I have a queer teen and it’s really homophobic here. There seems to be quite a few LGBT kids but the outward and internalized homophobia/transphobia in rampant.