How to find a supportive queer community

Life Kit

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

If you're exploring your sexuality or gender identity for the first time, it's natural to feel overwhelmed. You might be processing mixed emotions, grieving the loss of people in your life or struggling with imposter syndrome. But on the other side is a supportive community that will celebrate you, not just tolerate you. In this episode, Life Kit producer Margaret Cirino talks with queer community organizers about the affirming power of queer spaces and how to find your own community.

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0:00.0	Imagine, if you will, a show from NPR that's not like NPR, a show that focuses not on the important but the stupid,
0:07.6	which features stories about people smuggling animals in their pants and competent criminals in ridiculous science studies,
0:13.8	and call it, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, because the good names were taken.
0:17.2	Listen to NPR's, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, yes, that is what it is called, wherever you get your podcast.
0:24.8	You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
0:30.7	Hey, everybody, it's Mariel. You want to go dancing?
0:38.8	This is the sound of more than 100 people line dancing to a song called Thick as
0:42.9	Thieves by Lauren Alina.
0:48.4	It was a warm Tuesday night in Brooklyn, New York.
0:51.9	And the event that got him on the floor is called Stud Country,
0:54.8	a queer line dancing night.
0:56.9	Life Kit producer Margaret Serino was in attendance.
0:59.8	Is this y'all's first time here?
1:01.8	We're regular.
1:03.1	Regular.
1:04.1	What would you say what number is this roughly?
1:07.5	It's definitely in like the 50s.
1:10.4	Definitely between like 50 and 100, though.
1:12.6	There are multiple places to do it. We go multiple times a week.
1:15.6	These are the friends that I talk to every day.
1:17.6	And I just love everyone in this community so much.
1:21.6	I've been like 12 line-jans script shots.
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