Do you have many LGBT friends and do you necessarily care if you do or don’t? I have one gay friend who I catch up with occasionally and I think my husband has two. I never really cared either way about it, however I feel like I’m at that point where you primarily make new friends through existing ones, and they are having children and making other “parent” friends. Between that and living in a SFH neighborhood in the suburbs, I’ve changed my viewpoint over the last few months.

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I personally don’t have that many either, I have maybe 5? But I feel like people my age (mid 20s) have this larger community of people they know/know of. I’m not sure what it is or why it happened but I love all my friends I have! So I’m okay with it - I want to say it’s partly college related like all the gays on campus somehow found each other and I was a commuter and kinda did my own thing? I really don’t know

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I'm polyamorous and involved in some of the communities, and the venn diagram of people who are poly and people who are queer isnt quite a circle, but it's damn near there. I'd say the vast majority of my friends are some flavor of lgbt+ to be honest. That said, I tend to be involved with online resource/educational/non dating communities, and it's a lot easier to make friends when you're not relying on hoping to meet people who just live near you 'in the wild'.

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That is part of my problem, I would rather meet people “naturally”, which hasn’t worked in my favor thus far.

we can be friends!

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Hi! 🙋‍♂️

I’m 25 and I see myself going down the same path as you. I recently moved to a new city and have no connections here. All my coworkers are as you described, with families and children. It’s been difficult to build a network here, especially during covid. I plan on being more active in an LGBT running group when this is over, and plan on joining professional LGBT networking groups eventually. I was also active on social media and have met up with other gay men from there (non-sexually).

I used to live in a city with no LGBT community. I couldn’t take it anymore. There was little to no opportunity for me to feel “whole” through friends.

As a LGBT person finding your sense of community is so important. Let me know if you ever need someone in your circle, and I wish you best of luck

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