In this week's "This Is Everything" segment, Zach gets personal about a question that's been on his mind: what does it actually mean to be a queer person living in a red state right now? Prompted by a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ news alerts and his own family's push to relocate, Zach walks through why he and his husband Andrew have ruled out moving closer to his brother, despite the appeal of buying a house outright and being near family.

He talks candidly about growing up in Miami, the segregation he's noticed living in Massachusetts, and how racism gets learned rather than born. He also digs into the wave of state-level bills stripping rights from transgender people — including driver's license revocations happening with zero warning — and why he believes the volume of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation right now is a distraction from bigger issues. Zach lands on why Massachusetts, for all its quirks, is home: legal protections, a lesbian governor, direct flights, and a community where being loud and proud on a night out doesn't come with a second thought.

It's a mix of the political and the deeply personal — family pressure, real estate math, small-town New Hampshire bike week, and what it means to choose safety over square footage.

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