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You and I don't own this system, we have to survive in it. You aren't actively hurting anyone. Do it, get the paycheck that keeps a roof over your head, then find some way to make a positive impact in your local community. Is there a place with resources for LGBT youth/young adults that you could volunteer at or donate to?
My take on it, at least. I'm not helping anyone if I get evicted. The employer is the one showing a lack of morals/ethics, not you.
Fuck this cowardly shit. The alt-right’s ability to take control and unleash this harm is damn near entirely the fault of good people who have decided to look out for their own safety and security at the cost of the US’s future. Tends of thousands of people in your position, choosing to roll over and taking the paycheck is all it takes to give them permission to overreach.
Burn that client to the ground.
I encourage you to read on the history and structure of resistance movements: what succeeded, what happened to make them eventually dissolve or fall apart. Requiring everyone to be max extreme, to give up their jobs and put their families at risk is not going to build a movement. Plenty out there, here are easy-to-find starters:
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare by Erica Chenoworth and Maria Stephen
Activism, Inc. : How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America by Dana R. Fisher
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution by Andrew Boyd
The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Peter Popham