As a queer person, I feel incredibly alone in my workplace and neighborhood. It feels like we truly are a minority, since I don’t have even one other friend or acquaintance in the community. How do you find your friends/ your people when you don't have access to them within your social circle, and you don't really have the time to go out of your way to find people outside the circle?

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What city are you in? NY/Philly/Boston hits differently compared to somewhere like Dallas

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Meet a lot of queer people in my day to day just getting out and doing stuff

I’m sorry to hear that. I feel quite similarly, even as an NYC fish.

You have to make time to meet queer people. If you're concerned enough to post here, you can find a few hours a month to attend an lgbtq focused event.

I assume you're in a major metro area in the US/UK/CA/AU/NZ. If that's right, there's almost certainly an LGBTQ center with volunteering opportunities, hobby groups, sports teams, professional organizations and political groups. Speaking of professional orgs, if you're at a big company, you likely have an lgbtq employee group, so you can meet people that way.

If you're a senior manager, you're smart enough to know how to Google some of these and show up. And I didn't even mention apps or bars.

I mean how demanding is your role as SM? Do you have time and energy to meet people and build relationships?

Join classes, go to queer pubs, and queer activities. There's no other way to do it.

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