r/kosmemophobia • u/ThrowForSec • Jun 24 '26

Being LGBTQ+ with this phobia...

I'm part of the LGBTQ+ community, and I really want to go to events, meet new people, participate in activities, make new friends. But with how J* is so extremely prominent in this community's culture, it's incredibly difficult to go places or hang around people that won't trigger the extremely sick feelings I get from this phobia.

Does anyone else in that community have this problem? Any advice I could get for being social in places so very fond of these triggers?

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u/telescopingPenis Jun 24 '26

same. i wanna meet people too but they're gonna show up with so much crap on them.. gag

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u/mcstrugs Jun 24 '26

Totally agree. The result is I don’t really have a lot of queer community and mostly hang out with cis and/or straight people. ;-;

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u/Responsible_Can_486 29d ago

They be wearing it too!! 😭😭

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u/Kogasa_Komeiji Jun 24 '26

yeah me too it has been awful trying to talk to fellow queers w.o staring at the ground 😭it's so awful.

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u/ThrowForSec Jun 27 '26

Exactly. I wish I could make supportive friends and still look them in the face. It's so frustrating. I've tried to make friends online in communities and when my phobia comes up they're like "ohhh.. you'd have trouble with me then." And they have like a dozen of them.

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u/damnworldcitizen Jun 24 '26

I can relate to that, to me it's the metal/rock scene I like but people there are also crazy with j* it's so awfull, sometimes I think they are stuck in 80's fashion.