There had been a really good site like that, called it the "men's room" several years back. Fell apart when the webmaster decided to try and fix what wasn't in the least broken, radically changed it up, made it pay-only, and that was that very shortly after. Seems to be a trend with all manner of sites lately. Can't seem to find any like it (few rules, no judgement, no popularity BS, no warning/infraction for civil disagreement of opinion etc. was really great, just what I'd been looking for). Oh, sites similar may exist, but good luck finding them... I sure can't seem to. If they exist, they're "underground", so to speak. I can't remember, but I think this one was sort of like that too... couldn't search for it and easily find it. If I recall right, it was less than 3 months from going pay-only that it went down completely.
Tried the only local LGBTQ (PFLAG), but to my great disappointment I found its more a communal mock-up therapy session. No socializing/hanging out... just two grueling hours of airing rants and feelings, railing politics, and that sort of thing (and, curiously, no help for information about legal things like changing name/gender, employer discrimination, etc. etc.)... wasn't at all what I was hoping to find. Gave it four tries, didn't stick around. I mean, really, if it was therapy I were after I'd just get a shrink. I mean, I get it - really I get it, but being
all about that
all the time
really put me off. YMMV.
Unfortunately, it does rather appear we're... on our own, for this sort of thing. You get lucky and run across something or you don't and that's that. Been looking for the same thing for years and haven't found it (again) yet. And, by now, I really don't expect to.
