I’m the wrong¹ fella to ask… but since that’s never stopped me answering in the past…
In the scene, one of my favourite things about it is that no one’s (no one I’ve chatted to, anyway) going to get offended if you say you’re interested but it turns out that they’re not. Even if they’re very much not.
One of my other favourite things about this culture is that you do get to say that, straight out; you don’t need to hmm and haw and avoid it…
For once, the advice shy kids are given when they start saying actually applies: the worst that can happen is the other person/people say ‘no’.
OK, OK, the worst that can happen is that they’re nasty when they say no, but (i) such people tend not to last in the nicer parts of the scene, like this place, and (ii) I’ve only ever very rarely had it occur to me in more than ten years.
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¹the reason I say I’m the wrong person is that because I haven’t met for years, I never these days make an unsolicited overt ‘pass’, nor say first that I’m interested… because I don’t want to mislead nor be misunderstood. When I was meeting, I’d be completely open and upfront about my intentions/wishes.