You look familiar.

So the queer community. Awesome thing, right? Straight people are totally jellz of it. Us queers look out for each other, and attend support groups together, and march together, and when we discover one of our own in a straight environment we are BEST FRIENDS.

Yeah, it's a great thing, this queer community.

Except you know what else we do in this community? We date. And you know what dating people entails? Bad breakups, cheating, hating each other, being obsessed with each other, dropping friends, getting dropped by friends, acting like our worst selves, etc.

You know how when you start to date a guy you might wait a couple of weeks before you meet his friends? And it's a little nerve wracking because you want them to like you?

When you date a girl, you quickly find out you already know all her friends. Because you dated them. Or they're dating your ex. Or they're best friends with your sworn enemy.

In fact, all of your sworn enemies have started a softball team/arm wrestling league/ books to prisoners program/ potluck crafting club together. They're saving the world one frown from you at a time.

Now, I still find it upsetting. I find it upsetting when new friends have bad feelings about old friends. I find it upsetting when I'm the new friend who has bad feelings about old friends.

But I like dating women. And that's the pool them apples are bobbing in. So ok queer community, fine, let's get to know one another. Let's be in each other's faces and each other's spaces and let's annoy the shit out of each other. And if we can avoid fist fights outside the bar on ladies night, I'm pretty sure the Dalai Lama gives us all cookies.