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A Would-Be Trans And Queer Haven In Rural Colorado Just Wants To Be Left Alone

Originally published on June 2, 2021 3:04 pm There s a 6-foot-tall fence going up around the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch in rural Custer County, Colo. The people who live there say they need it because they ve been the target of harassment since they relocated the trans-friendly ranch there in 2020. The perimeter fence will add security to the ranch, which also has newly installed security cameras. There s a tension on the property, so much so that co-owner Penny Logue and fellow owner Bonnie Nelson, both transgender women, carry pistols at all times. One wall of the communal geodesic-dome ranch house is stocked with various assault weapons.

In Custer County, Owners Of A Trans-Friendly Ranch Pack Heat And Build A Fence In The Face Of Harassment

Dan Boyce/CPR News Tenacious Unicorn Ranch co-owner Penny Logue uses a jackhammer to tamp down dirt around a recently installed fencepost on April 28, 2021. There’s a six-foot fence going up around the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch in Custer County. The people who live there say they need it. They say they’ve been the target of harassment since they relocated the trans-friendly ranch there in 2020. Soon, likely within the next month, the perimeter fence will add security to the ranch, one that also has newly installed security cameras. There’s a tension here around the ranch, so much so that co-owner Penny Logue and fellow owner Bonnie Nelson, both transgender women, carry sidearm pistols at all times. One wall of the communal geodesic dome ranch house is stocked with various assault weapons.

Meet the Gun-Toting Tenacious Unicorns in Rural Colorado

Luna Anna Archey/High Country News How a transgender-owned alpaca ranch in Colorado foretells the future of the rural queer West. A year ago, transgender rancher Penny Logue found the dome. Fed up with a hostile landlord in the city and fearful for their safety amid record-high deaths in the transgender community nationwide, Logue and her business partner, Bonnie Nelson, sought refuge in the rural, open rangelands. The geodesic dome perched on sprawling acreage in the remote Wet Mountain Valley on the eastern flank of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range, near the rural ranching hamlet of Westcliffe, Colorado. They were intrigued. “Domes are funky and cool and a bit against the status quo and they help the planet,” Logue told me. So they bought it.

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