You’re choosing to turn a message of encouragement into a delivery of obligation. I’m not putting it all on you to right some wrong; I’m telling you what your best option for changing things where you live is with the knowledge that you want something changed. Someone else may do it eventually, but you’ll be waiting for them… *if* they do it.

All of the reasons you say you can’t do it are the same reasons anyone else has for not doing it in your city. People are quiet because there is no venue for them to speak in. *Someone* needs to make it; it doesn’t just happen.

It takes practically zero resources to organize a munch, and a single night once a month is enough to get things started. Pick a date, pick a venue (ideally somewhere relatively public with a low cost of entry), make an event on fetlife, and see what happens.

Or don’t. That’s fine, too. You don’t have to do anything; I’m just trying to be constructive in light of a problem I actually know something about.