"Navigatg my own queerns early on whout gay iends was a mostly futile effort" wr GQ ntributor Rob LeDonne.
Contents:
- HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
- I THOUGHT I DIDN'T NEED GAY FRIENDS; I WAS WRONG
- HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
- I NEED GAY FRIENDS
- HOW TO GET A MAN (FOR GAY MEN)
- HOW TO HAVE A GAY FRIEND
HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
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So how do you make gay iends?
In some of my most sperate hours for gay bondg, I’ve attend LGBTQ+-themed therapy groups my area. Outsi of LGBTQ+-specific meetups, a great way to fd LGBT iendships is actually by attendg meetups that gay people typilly like. I’ll never fet beg 15 years old and walkg to my first ever meetg for lbian, gay, bi, queer, and trans youth at BAGLY Boston.
”) The close queer iends we make bee a chosen fay, wh a shared culture and inty, formg the bonds that are sential to our wellns and as gay bars and bookstor are closg left and right, many of have turned to apps to fill that gap, meang we spend more time than ever alone our rooms. LGBT2Q people exist all genrs, all cultur, and relyg on your gaydar is a good start, but expandg your queer and trans cultural referenc will boost your abili.
I THOUGHT I DIDN'T NEED GAY FRIENDS; I WAS WRONG
Every time you attend a Pri March, ftival or cent Gay Club Night, you may have noticed jt how many fellow queers live your cy. The qutn is how to fd them outsi of the special events? Follow the steps to extend your... * need gay friends *
Instagram and Twter make easier to fd other people wh the same terts, whether ’s hedgehogs or aerosol art, and there are so many homo-tastic hashtags. Try #QueerStyle, #BlackTransExcellence, #QueerFemme, #LbianMem, #BiLove, #GenrEuphoria, #Gaysian, #LGBTTikTok. Or, add your inty to your state, school, or profsn to fd #GayMichigan or #QueerMorehoe or #TransUtah or #PansexualUK and more.
HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS
There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay. There are some important thgs that you have to unrstand about this suatn before gog forward, however. Someone's sexualy is highly plex and highly... * need gay friends *
That may be surprisg news if you’ve been raised a homophobic branch of your relig tradn, but I promise you—they’re out there, and they n’t wa to wele you (and you may fd really healg to brg your whole self to your fah tradn). Here are some lks to lists of affirmg (that’s the relig buzzword for “we like the gays here”) anizatns:.
Check out Unlikely Hikers, which specifilly wel and celebrat people who don’t f the classic Patagonia profile cludg fat folks and hikers of lour; Venture Out Project, which is n by and explicly wel trans people; Gay SCUBA Week and Queer Paddlers; and basilly what I’m sayg is that if you want to be out and Out there are fely other ‘mos to do wh your area. If you’re newly sober or revery and tryg to avoid plac, people, or patterns that may not be healthy for you right now, a gay AA or other revery meetg might be a double-w for you: support on your path and a boost for your new social life. (Mis)e hookup apps wh gay be clear, a happy, healthy, nsentg hookup is a thg of bety.
Growlr (gay bears and admirers). ” or “lookg for garng gays! ” they’re sayg, “Hello, fellow homo!
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
” or “What a great lor story, ” ’s extremely likely they’re sayg HELLO I AM ALSO QUEER AND/OR TRANS AND I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO don’t be fooled if someone don’t “look gay. We’re everywhere and we look like anyone and also please don’t ntribute to the ia that there’s one way to look gay, ol?
I NEED GAY FRIENDS
They’ll troduce you to their nonbary , their gay office iend, the trans girl their PhD hort, or whomever.
HOW TO GET A MAN (FOR GAY MEN)
Raise your glass of weak vodka soda garnished wh 1/18th of a lime to the ever-so-important gay iend group. ) To be ank, havg a gay iend group is as important to queer life as iced ffee ’s a sad but te fact that growg up gay n be an isolatg experience. ) On top of that, take to acunt the hurdl of gay culture: beg the closet, g out, homophobia, ternalized homophobia, and velopg ep, unrequed csh on straight acquatanc om high school you barely spoke to, cludg that guy who was two years olr than you wh the dirty brown hair and always wore tank tops durg the summer and uld have moled and now is probably married wh three kids and I’m pretty sure his name was Ian.
HOW TO HAVE A GAY FRIEND
Somewhere along this super gay marathon (and I’m reag om sertg a pole metaphor here, send ngratulatns at your nvenience), you slowly accumulate some like-md iends beyond the people you’re hookg up wh or datg, and beg to realize there are ed others who have wad through the same torrent of emotns and experienc you’ve enuntered. Prevly feelg like the sole gay the universe, like Sigourney Weaver walkg the halls of Nostromo at the end of Alien soaked sweat, you’ve fally found other telligent queer life. For the first time you realize there are others who unrstand what the heck beg gay is all about.
)Wh gay iends, you sudnly have others to miserate wh about eper tails that no straight iend, while passnate, uld ever be properly equipped to unrstand.