![]() ![]() These terms simply do not capture the town’s distinct quirkiness, or even queerness. The town’s diversity complicates the conceptual frameworks called to mind when one of thinks of the terms small town, hot spring spa, or gay mecca. Simply walking down the now crumbling concrete can cause some to feel seasick from the movement of the hot waters lying just beneath the surface of the earth. ![]() Most sidewalks in the town were constructed during the great public works projects of the 1920s and 30s. However, every once in awhile, like the sudden appearance of a hot water geyser in the middle of a town alley, these energies erupt in an enormous conflict. Much of the time, these divergent energies reluctantly (and sometimes happily) co-exist. Truth or Consequences (T or C) sits on a large aquifer of hot mineral water and hosts an abundance of evangelical churches, empty storefronts, spas, hot springs, healers, yogis, survivalists, artists, musicians, writers, lesbians and gay men, trans people, meth addicts, entrepreneurs, wealthy land owners, real estate speculators, people living off-grid, retirees scraping by on social security, believers in alien abduction, and outer-space enthusiasts. ![]() Long after my transition, my ex-partner and I bought a small property in a little town in New Mexico. How to explain, in a culture frantic for resolution, that sometimes the shit stays messy? ![]()
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