Remember last week when we put together a really special, informative and highly accurate / imaginative piece How to Make Gay Friends and Meet Girls: The Ultimate Guide to Effective Queer Socializing?
But it turned out that all you really needed in order to meet other queers was the freedom to post your current city and email address in the comments?
YOU GUYS COULD’VE BEEN DOING THAT THIS WHOLE TIME, WEIRDOS.
Just kidding, I love you. So much so, in fact, that we’ve declared next week International Meet an Autostraddler Week! WHAT, THAT’S EXCITING. Yes, I know. How does one celebrate International Meet an Autostraddler Week? Simple! You make plans to meet a fellow reader and then you go do that.
Some of you have celebrated early and that’s cool, don’t worry. Intern Emily apparently celebrates this holiday every weekend or something. Montreal lesbians are so lucky for so many reasons and Emily is one of those reasons! Also there’s something called ‘Faggity Ass Fridays’ which, I mean seriously, that sounds like a lot of fun.
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A handful of Autostraddle team members have organized meet-ups in their respective cities. If you’re in or around these areas and would like to be part of the party, email for exact locations and more info!
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Tuesday, November 9
7pm
contact: crystal [at] autostraddle [dot] com
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
Wednesday, November 10
7pm
contact: laneia [at] autostraddle [dot] com
LONDON, ENGLAND
Saturday, November 13 / Sunday, November 14
unknown time
contact: laura [at] autostraddle [dot] com
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Monday, November 8
unknown time
contact: greenearthgirl4 [at] gmail [dot] com
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Flexible dates & times
contact: heathergfroehlich [at] gmail [dot] com
LONDON, ENGLAND 2
Additional meet-ups have been / will be taking place
contact: ehmerrow [at] yahoo [dot] com
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Thursday, November 11
8pm
contact: emilychoo19 [at] gmail [dot] com
MUNICH, GERMANY
Wednesday, November 10
Noon
contact: katelynhouck [at] gmail [dot]com
VANCOUVER, B.C.
Thursday, November 11
1pm
contact: louberry76 [at] gmail [dot] com
ANTWERP, BELGIUM
Flexible dates & times
contact: daphne.vandevoorde [at] gmail [dot] com
If you’ve coordinated a meet-up in your city and would like to share your contact info, email me: laneia [at] autostraddle [dot] com. I will update this post with your name, city, email, etc.
I feel weird and nervous for you guys when you put your email addresses [you should spell them out to avoid spammers] in the comments – probably because I’m a mother and I want you to eat one green thing a day and not get abducted by strangers. So! It is with the utmost fear and hope that I encourage you to meet each other in well-lit, public places. If possible, meet in large groups and take a friend! Also it never hurts to carry a can of Mace / wiffle bat.
**DON’T POST EXACT MEETING LOCATIONS IN THESE COMMENTS! Please email each other. Jesus I’ve been gone for 24+ hours and you guys have lost your precious little minds. Email!
Additionally, several of you have emailed / tweeted / formspringed to say that Autostraddle needs a forum / social networking apparatus. Yes, we know. We’ve got big big plans for Autostraddle and I promise you’ll be super pleased. In the meantime, you’ll just have to make friends the old-fashioned way: interesting avatars, witty comments and compelling blogs.
Have you already met an Autostraddler?
Was it everything you’d hoped for?
Are there photos?
Did you compare who’d been reading Autowin the longest?
Is Autostraddle the next OkCupid?
YES LET’S
If your reading this and you live in Caracas, Venezuela …PLEASE LET ME KNOW! laneta82 (at) gmail (dot) com. My life is miserable without gay friends who live close by.
But I have met some of you in the past, including you Laneia (I won’t ever forget my 26th birthday lol), and I love u all.
I live in Trinidad a couple months out of the year. I know, i know, it’s not even remotely close to Caracas, but i feel continental solidarity since we probably broke off from Venezuela like a bajillion years ago. :)
Trinidad is not that far! lol….thanks for the solidarity :D
pittsburgh area anyone?
I’m totes down for a Boston meet up. Less do it.
shootiforgotmysn at aol dot com.
l i’m in the Bay Area for holiday am from france so i’ll be cool to meet news folks!
Mail: missdaoumen @ hotmailDOTcom
So I unhopefully Ctr+F’d the comments for “France” and look! it turns up. I’m living in the south of France (ERASMUS from England), and there is a lesbian bar ON MY STREET but I have no gay friends here so just walk gloomily past it.
Does anyone (incl. you, Lulu) live around the Languedoc area?
I have an email also: pieuvres at hotmail dot co dot uk
can someone explain to me why there aren’t lesbians in Miami??? I swear it’s a gay boys dream and a lesbians nightmare.
dude, there was definitely at least one on the previous thread. I suggested she go to Sunset Tavern in South Miami on Thursday nights. Admittedly, I only went once when I was home last summer but it was wall to wall lesbians.
There’s Sunset Tavern (Sunkissed) and Mova (Pandora) on Thursday nights. Also, Sunkissed has a once a month event at Love/Hate on South Beach. There’s a new Sunday day event called Panty Raid (icandee) at Score that I haven’t been to yet. And coming up at the end of November is the White Party and there will be a lot of women at the women’s events. Pandora and Sunkissed also throw random other parties for holidays, etc…
Oops, I should’ve added, definitely feel free to drop me a note if you want any more info on any of those or the South Florida area… brooke[at]autostraddle[dot]com
I live in Miami and i completely agree with you, BUT i did check out sunset tavern, and MY GOD it’s like a bat cave full of lesbians! they were everywhere! it was my heaven .__.
I feel really, really, really far away from everyone now.
Anyone in North County San Diego want to meet?
Anyone from/currently residing in Cambridge, UK up for some shenanigans? :D
MaffyTeacake @ aol.com
Someone else has to be in Auckland, New Zealand! We’re not that small and irrelevant, are we? (ohgodyesweprobablyareSAVEME)
pikeletnz at gmail dawt com ~
No, you’re not. I’m here too!
Michigan thread- go!
Southeast Michiganders – email me at julia3366 (at) comcast dot net
Hey Orlando/Central Florida gays! Let’s set something up!
If Northern Ontario (or Ontario in general) wants to organize: mckimbit[at]gmail[dot]com
Laneia, if this was only a week later, i’d totally do tea with you while on my Phoenix gaycation.
Oy! There are already so many comments! This might be a slim chance, but I’ll go for it anyway.
Lubbock, TX
yvette.loera [at] gmail [dot] com
P.S. I keep wanting to spell “come” instead of “com” which is funny. It’s like, “come to me friendly lesbians, so we can go to Fuzzys Taco and have fuzzdrivers and intellectual yet funny conversation.”. And yes, there is a place here called Fuzzys Taco. No, it doesn’t really have anything to do with lesbians or anything gay, it’s just a very friendly place.
So what do ya say, kids?
London represent!
This is actually really handy as I was looking for something to do that weekend.
Surely some of you live in Manchester?? If not you should probably move.
England or Massachusetts? If the answer is the former, I’m less than an hour away!
Detroit?
Right here!
Vegas ladies?! Anyone?? Why do I feel like the only reader from Las Vegas!
The GF and I represent two more… But she doesn’t go on her family computer because a website called autostraddle would probably scare somebody… So she doesn’t comment. :P
OMG YOU GUYS!!! Vida and I have been reppin Vegas on the last two threads about this where were you????? My gf and Vida and I plus you guys makes 6 I think! Definitely enough for a brunch. Or Yayo’s or Cafe Rio or U-swirl or whatevs! Let’s make this happen! Email me or find me on facebook, even though this was like 2 weeks ago.
laurenoldfield08 (at) yahoo (dot) com
HOW ARE THERE NO QUEERS FROM THE TWIN CITIES WHAT IS THIS WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING HIBERNATING
HR;GLAKJSDFL;K
Hey, I’m from the Twin Cities! Not quite hibernating yet, but my weekends are kind of busy this month. Let me know if you’re planning anything specific, though, I’ll see what I can do.
inthejunkdrawer at yahoo dot com
Any LA girls around? I’m in the Silverlake/Glendale area.
Melbourne anyone? Ctrl-f is hard on a phone…
Vegas right here!
Yeah Vegas!!! Lets get something going, yes?
Koolkittenz at gmail dot com
what’s good Tucson. (and Phoenix every once in a while. debating if my sick self should go down for this four day weekend like i was going to…)
hey twin cities/mpls here…lets put something together!
cluttio/gmail
anybody under age and in toronto
Los Angeles area here (more specifically West Hollywood). There should definitely be an LA meet up.
coreycrossfield|at|gmail|dot|com
VEGAS!!!
Antwerp (or Brussels) or Amsterdam? Belgian and Dutch people I know you’re out there. Let’s have a beer or go to a coffeeshop.
I’m in Amsterdam!
I live in England but am over in Eindhoven once a month for about a week. Eindhoven any good? I’m always stuck for things to do when sitting in my hotel room alone. Shout! scotton86 (at) hotmail (dot) com.
Dorothy x
I live in Brussels and study in Leuven!
jillvds (at) gmail (dot) com
amazing! Anyone in Madrid who wants to meet on monday and show me and some friends around?
amazing! Anyone in Madrid who wants to meet on monday and show me and some friends around? elena.gilles_a_gmail.com
Not Madrid but if you make it to Barcelona I’m your girl.
Are you there studying abroad? I’m thinking of coming down to Barcelona for a weekend, but we’ll see if that actually happens. Let me know if you venture to Amsterdam (where I am studying til December, yahoo)!
I’m underaged. Problemo, or no Problemo?
silver lake/echo park/eagle rock/pasadena
underage
coffee get together, LA ladies?
Columbia, MO?
its a possibility, hit me up! jadertater13 @ live dot com. i live in northeast MO, but plan on traveling there to see my sister, who started college there, quite often.
Anyone in LA/Westwood/Santa Monica? I figured it’d be easy to meet people in LA but it’s not as simple as I thought!
I’m from VT but will be moving to Georgia near Columbus for an undetermined amount of time…anyone in either of those places?
Los Angeles Ladies!!
So, I skate w/volunteer w/ the LA Derby Dolls and this weekend we have two bouts! You should come because:
it’s this weekend: NOVEMBER 13 + 14
1)Roller derby is amazeboobs
2) Cool chicks knock each other down
3) There are plenty of lezzies at the bouts
AND, for you underages, there is a Sunday afternoon baby doll brawl which is all ages and still supergay!
I’ll be volunteering @ both games (raffle tix what what!) so you can come buy raffle tix from me or just scream “autostraddle” at the top of your lungs…whatevs you feel like.
That sounds fun and if I had more money right now I’d totally go. Oh, bother.
THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD IDEA.
I just got back from the Montreal meet-up and I am drunk but also happy in what I believe to be a genuine way. This was a very good idea.
Wasn’t it great? I went to the Vancouver meet up today and can’t wait to do it again.
Thanks for helping us all get our butts into gear Laneia :)
Super nice to meet you :) We should make these Montreal meetups a semi-regular thing, as we were easily the bitchingest posse on the street.
And that’s saying something, as it’s a long street with presumably a lot of posses.
We should defs make this a semi-regular thing! I wish I was there earlier! Next time I’m taking the night off from work!!
it was really nice to meet everyone, montreal meet up was fun (not at all scary like i thought it was going to be)
I’m kinda sad. No one from Portland OR has put anything up. Boo! I am lazy and so was hoping someone else would do it. Oh well. Anyway, I know a bunch of ladies in Portland read this because that is how I found out about it. So, I was thinking either Powell’s or the Food Carts on Hawthorne so we could BYOB. email me if interested for the deets.
cbagwell0810@yahoo.com
I just found this site, and I’m yessssssssssssss.
We could always meet up at Powell’s and then go on an adventure for food carts.
Emailing you now though.
There were some Portland/Vancouver people on the other mega thread, on page 3 I believe.
There’s definitely a couple of Portland people on page 2 of this thread! I’m at school right now but I’ll be back in the area for winter break. I miss the PNW.
There’s got to definitely be more Portland people anyways!
We should have a meet-up during winter break then, if there’s only… what, 3-5 of us pdx ladies ahaha
Another Portlander here! It would be so fun to meet some of you!
Portlander!
I haven’t heard back from anyone (except from Southern OR), but if you email me we can at least start trying to plan something? :)
caecaine [at] hotmail [dot] com
Does Vancouver count too? I’d also like to meet fellow Autostraddle readers. Although I’m still closeted, so finding an excuse to get out might be problematic. I’d still like to make more lesbian friends cuz I barely have any, even if it’s temporarily over the internet!
I think Vancouver could still work. I’m more wanting to meet more autostraddle readers as well, though it’d be great to get that lesbian posse ahaha
I’d say email the Portlanders who show up. Then we can at least all get to know that we’re not alone in our lovely corner of the pacific northwest.
And I’d say a daytrip to portland and the amazingness that is Powell’s some weekend is a great excuse. Or the portland zoo during zoo lights. We’ll think of something to get you out XD
XD thanks. I’ll try to email you, but I think my emails have been going straight to people’s spam folders recently and I have no idea why…jic my email is adbrixe@comcast.net
When I first started attending queer collective events at my uni, I told my parents I was going to a feminist group. Perhaps you could do something similar? The good thing about this story was that it involved something which accorded with my interests, and I peopled my fantasy with the lovely ladies of the queer collective merely by omitting the fact of their sexual orientation. Since I was not using my existing friends in the lie, there was less chance of being caught out, but by using real people I had a better chance of remembering my story.
I hope you work something out.
My problem is figuring out how to lie about where I’m going to be and avoid having to take my sister with me, have her ask me a ton of questions about where I’m going/who I’m with or have my parents tag along :\
New Orleans anyone?
cincinnati anyone?
I’m Evi Allon, 22, Stewardess at Swiss Airlines. I’m looking for a (lesbian) girlfriend any age in the USA. I’m happy when you write me in eviallon@yahoo.com