Having been in ostensibly queer friend groups basically since arriving in Dunedin, I’ve observed that all of my friends (myself included) are, indeed, dating each other. But can I back this up with data?
Yes.
My proposed hypothesis is the “Queer event horizon” - that any two queer people who have been in relationships should be able to trace a line of exes, hook-ups, and crushes to connect each other. To test this hypothesis I’ve constructed, through serious investigative journalism, an incomplete map of the relationship dynamics – present and historical, serious and casual – of my various friend groups. As shown, even with my fairly limited dataset, there were a lot of connections, managing to link even people who have never directly met. I would suggest further, that because there are undoubtedly connections beyond the people I immediately know, that this is but one node of a much larger web.