40% of people think their friends kinda suck & it’s even worse in the LGBTQ+ community

In the words of the oft-bedazzled Elvis Presley: “I’m feeling so lonely, I could die.”

OK, OK, so the “Heartbreak Hotel” singer had a flair for dramatics.

But his musings on solitude feel particularly resonant following last year’s declaration of a “loneliness epidemic” by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Nurth and a recent American Friendship Project study that found more than 40% of people are not as close to their friends as they’d like to be.

How about we take this to the next level?

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