And if all else fails, grab your phone and start swiping.
Join a club, take a class or get involved with an LGBTQ+ advocacy or volunteer group to boost your chances of meeting like-minded folks. Ask some friends with good taste (or a carefully crafted checklist) to set you up with one of their friends, then pray it doesn't get awkward if things don't work out. Once you're old enough to no longer be able to find someone in the school cafeteria or Math class, there are essentially four options for finding love: Head to your favorite watering hole and hope there's someone there who might be interested. Look, it's hard out there in the dating world.