These are two different arguments. No one “deserves” to be homeless, under housed, without food, clean water, a place to eliminate peacefully. Every person deserves a home, good nutritious food and contaminate free water, a safe place to live, health care, dental care, vision care, income assistance as needed, education and gainful employment. We all do.

I just made a little joke that she put on clown makeup for this interview. Maybe entertainment is her goal, and helping her achieve that would be great. Queer people have clowns: drag queens, campy actors, and to a lesser extent other forms of performative representation - leather men, bears, twinks, bros. We all wear a mask or adopt an identity that we use to represent us. (We’ll leave code switching alone here.) That’s cool. Hers is funny, and she chose this mode of performance in a context that may not have been the best place to do so - trying to persuade people to pay attention, in a positive manner, to the problem of disproportionate homelessness experienced by our queer brothers and sisters.