BALTIMORE — Something was missing from Adrienne Kilby’s life in Baltimore five years ago. She turned to her therapist and her friends — “who are lovely, but they’re not queer,” she said — to express a desire to meet more people who, like her, identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Specifically, Kilby, a cisgender queer woman, was searching for a hiking group.
“[My therapist] kind of laughed at me, and she was like, ‘Uh, I guess you have to start one,’” Kilby recalled.