The only brits I know have all come over to Canadaland, so all I can offer is best wishes for a speedy transition and a resettling somewhere that feels safe. Promise you'll update us as to the acclimation process.

(I hope this is okay, mods.)

Speaking as someone who is in no way an authority on anything, I'd say this fails the 'shits and giggles' validity test for 'casual', and therefore similar posts should be discouraged in the future. That said, it's all cool, I should just shut my yap, and it'll only be a problem if we get inundated with requests for jobs from fleeing sceptics.

Plus, also, best of luck in your move. We have a small handful of absolute arseholes over here who are anti-queer but for the most part people don't really mind what your sexual orientation is as long as you keep it off the top deck of a 91 bus between Kingsway and Crouch End.

Well look whos come running back. Couldnt even do 2 and a half centuries without messing things up, eh. I hope it goes well for you.

https://www.timeline.tv/ might be suitable.

It's more on the technical side, but could suit you.

No personal experience or connections for you but we have just built a new film studio in Reading, Berkshire which is owned by a US company Shadowbox Studios.

May be worth seeing if you can get a job at Shadowbox in the US and being open to a possible transfer?

As others have said the UK is one of the most LGBTQIA+ friendly countries, your family would be welcomed here.

Are Jobserve and Jobsite still around in the UK?

Best of luck! You won’t find LA weather, but London is pretty vibrant and cosmopolitan, and hopefully a good redoubt.

I'm in the live events side of video.
Where about a are you heading (roughly), and I'll see if I can reach out to some production companies or agencies or whatever that might be looking for freelance video production work.
Get some feelers out for ya.
It probably won't be glamorous, just corporate videos for/of conferences - as that's most of the work I do. But might be a foot in the door.

Can’t offer guidance or links…just wanted to say best wishes and hope it works out.

Aside from a few knobs people don’t have a problem with who you do it with here.

No idea what it is like in your industry, but in mine, IT, i get plenty of offers from recruitment agencies and headhunters through linkedin, even though i am not active there at all. Good luck!

jobs.ac.uk and search for media technician, av support, av manager, film technician, sound technician etc etc.