So how important was community for you on your queer journey? And how important was it and is it currently to you?

Yeah, so, so instrumental.

I remember meeting, like, some of my first, like, late bloomer lesbian friends and it feeling like I, I don't know, was drinking water after walking through the desert.

I was like, oh, my God, forget it.

Because I think especially as late bloomers, we can feel really isolated both from, you know, if you're coming from a mostly straight community, people don't get it.

And even going into the queer community of people who've been out for a really long time, you can also feel isolated from those people and those people can also not get it.

And finding other people where it's like, yeah, we like maybe dated men for like various years.

Um, can I ask you how you integrated yourself like with community? I think people want to know where they can meet, you know, like-minded people, um, I get that a lot, like specifically with kink again, I'll say like, people are like, where do I meet kinksters? How do I be a part of the community? So for you in the either late bloomer community or queer community or lesbian community, how did you do that? How does one do that?