Dining Alone: The Collapse of CompSex and Revival of Queer Community
10 min readMar 6, 2023
As a high school student, US History and Economics were two courses that I was required to take for graduation. And although these classes relied primarily on textbooks, each teacher assigned readings from popular non-fiction books to supplement the lessons. One such book was Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. In the context of…