#i’m white so pinch of salt — ask Sef if you want a more first hand experience on that

[plaidos]

How close is the lgbt+ scene in the parts of nyc where you mostly hang out? like do most people know each other? like people who go to your fave bar?

i can’t speak for other demographics, but for trans girls it seems pretty tight knit where i’m hanging. i go to the same trans event in Brooklyn every month and see many of the same people there (and i haven’t even been going very long), and i also go to a dyke bar in Brooklyn usually on dolls’ night (dolls is trans slang for transfems, which apparently a lot of people don’t know?) which has like regulars, a lot of people know each others names, have been hanging out for years etc. i’ve only been once when it wasn’t dolls’ night and there were way more TME dykes and transmascs outnumbered me and my tgirl friends but it isn’t like there weren’t other trans girls, still way more than i’d ever seen at a lesbian bar.

but yeah like i’ve learned the names of a bunch of people i go to the same bar as just from watching them play pool or hang out or talking to them about tumblr or whatever.

the new york city trans scene is tightknit enough that the bar from this popular meme is one of the ones i go to lol.