Relatively new to LA. Would love to meet more friends to do stuff. What do you guys do to meet more people? Found it hard to meet during Covid...

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Varsity Gay League has been a great way to meet folks. I play in the kickball and tennis leagues - they are way fun and pretty social. DM me - happy to meet up for drinks sometime too.

Following. I’m not sporty, but the usual recommendation is to join a gay sports league. Would love alternatives.

The sports leagues are not that sporty - like kickball and dodgeball are 100% social almost no one cares about actually playing well or winning - just have fun - don’t dismiss them without trying. I’d say half the folks on my teams are the “oh but I’m not sporty” variety of folks.

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