Hi, hi, hi Nancy, hi Kathy and Tobin. My name is Yelene. Hey y'all my name is Justin. I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. My name is Marie. I'm in Kansas City, Missouri. Hey y'all

This is Teresa in Portland, Oregon. My name is Pia and I'm from Perth, West, Australia. My name is Gail. I'm French, but I even Germany. And something interesting about me is that three of my siblings are also queer.

So working on coming out and all that looking for a gaggle while Portland is full of queers. I'm pretty sure I'm the only queer Muslim in the whole state. And I'm gonna try to use this gaggle project to meet someone to go to London Pride with this year.

It's 20 Gay Tain. I need to find my people.

From WNYC Studios, this is Nancy with your hosts, Tobin Low and Kathy too.

Tobin, Kathy, it has been six weeks since we launched our How to Get a Gaggle project where we gave our listeners weekly challenges to help them make new friends. And the reaction to it has completely blown our minds. Agree?

Yes, mind blown. Over 3,000 people signed up. Kathy, what were the challenges we gave them?

Week one, reach out to someone. Week two, go on a friend day. Week three, go to a queer event.

Getting scarier. Week four, host a brunch.

Now, if you've already got your group of friends, this might seem almost too easy. But when you're starting out from scratch, you've got to take baby steps. And let me tell you, baby steps were taken all over the US and all over the world.

Yeah, like Australia, China, the UK, also on the Facebook group, which has over 1200 people.

That Facebook group is so pure. It is so genuine. Everyone is so supportive of each other. People are already starting their own subgroups.

It makes me emotional thinking about it. And you know, I'm not an emotional person.

You're not naturally an emotional person. I can get you there if I tell you about a dog that's sad.

But seriously, we're so touched that there's been such a positive response to the project, especially because making adult friends is hard. I mean, I have trouble with it too.

So today, we're going to check in with some of you to see how it's been going, what worked, what didn't. And to see if you have advice for the folks who are maybe still having a hard time and need a push.

When I heard the episode, I was like, yes, yes, yes, yes, this is just what I need.

This is Pia. She lives in Australia. She considers herself pretty outgoing, you know, good at making plans.

And last year, she went to a queer event and something magical happened.

I was having a great time. I met some really cool people. And my car got locked in the car park.

So it was at that stage that two people in particular that I met Thomas and Kate were like, this is a sign.

Let's have dinner and kick on. So we did kick on. We ended up at this club and I did not get home until the wee hours in the morning.

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