Are you looking to expand your circle of LGBTQ+ friends? Maybe you've just come out and want to connect with others who share your experiences and struggles. Or maybe you're an ally who wants to demonstrate support and solidarity to the LGBTQ+ community. Whatever your reason may be, making any kind of new friends can be challenging, especially if you’re shy. But expanding your social circle and ensuring it’s as diverse as possible can only be a good thing.
1. Be yourself
The most important thing when it comes to making new LGBTQ+ friends is to be original and eager to comprehend from other people’s experiences and world views. The queer community is extremely welcoming, so don't be afraid to show your true colors and distribute your unique personality. If you’ve spent a extended time suppressing this side of yourself, being reserved or lacking in confidence, it may take you a while to belief new people and uncover up, so just be honest about this effort. You’ll no doubt convene people who empathize.
2. Retain, not everyone in the LGBTQ+ community is
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By Zachary Zane
When I finally embraced my bisexuality five long years after kissing my first human, I was elated, convinced that the world would now be my oyster. I thought organism bisexual would double my chances of a date on any given Friday night. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Women didn’t want to date me, fearing that I was using the bi label as a stepping stone to being “full-blown” queer . Whether or not they’d openly admit it, many feared I’d inevitably leave them for a man. The gay men I dated didn’t hold this fallacious belief. Rather, they were unbelievably condescending. They’d say things love, “Oh, honey! I was bi too. You’ll get there.” When I reaffirmed my bisexuality, letting them know that this isn’t a pitstop, but a closing destination, they’d respond, “I understand you think that. I did too.”
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