Belleville Illinois is a community across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. It used to be a largely conservative place, although it did suffer from the problems associated with labor unions who represented a lot of the people there. So often there were votes for Democrats coming from Belleville, but it was still a fairly conservative small c place.
The city now hosts an LGBTQ celebration featuring:
" drag and aerial arts performances, food vendors and local bands"
And the article further states:
"Out in STL Magazine listed the Old Belleville Historic District the best community for LGBTQ families in the St. Louis region last year. The magazine called the city a "rare refugeā near St. Louis for queer and transgender residents."
What is interesting about this is that all of this has happened since the Federal Government sued the city years ago over not having enough black people or encouraging them to move to Belleville. They complied and have since complied with the newest "civil rights" promotion - gay and trans.
This is how the Federal Government can destroy a community.
Belleville sits near East St. Louis, perhaps the worst, most impoverished hell-hole in America and the citizens of Belleville had sought to minimize the number of East St. Louis residents who wanted to move there. That's what got them in hot water.
So I suppose they invited homosexuals and the rest to immigrate to the city instead.
I would add that James Hodgkinson, the man who shot the Republican Congressmen while they were practicing for a baseball game, was a Belleville resident, so they were never THAT conservative. But this will eventually destroy any hope the city has of retaining a family oriented community.
This is how Democrats destroy communities. Belleville is now Sodom on the prairie.