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Contents:
- UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
- "ALMOST LOOKS ILLEGAL": FAY DICK'S DADDY'S LTLE BOY GAY PORNOGRAPHY SERI AND ITS TOO-YOUNG LOOK
- SEXUAL BEHAVR PATTERNS OF GAY UNIVERSY MEN: IMPLITNS FOR PREVENTG HIV FECTN
- TO BE YOUNG & GAY
- PORTLAND'S LONG-RUNNG UNRAGE GAY NIGHT CLUB THE ESPE HAS CLOSED, AND CAN'T FD A NEW SPACE
UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
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German Chavez was 14 years old when he first started g a gay datg app lled Grdr to fd adult men to pay him for need to help his troubled sgle mother pay the bills, he said, and had no trouble fdg men to purchase him on the popular lotn-based mobile 25 and years away om the sex tra, Chavez is warng other mors to stay away om Grdr, one of the most popular apps the untry for gay and bisexual men.
"ALMOST LOOKS ILLEGAL": FAY DICK'S DADDY'S LTLE BOY GAY PORNOGRAPHY SERI AND ITS TOO-YOUNG LOOK
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The pany touts s mobile platform as “The World’s Largt Social Networkg App for Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer People” and says s ers have to be 18 years old and the app is teemg wh unrage gay, bisexual and qutng boys, acrdg to rearchers, child exploatn specialists and ers like Chavez who say they n easily lie about their age to ga accs to the LGBTQ teens are seekg nnectn a world that provis few safe spac, rearchers say. More than half of sexually active gay and bisexual boys between the ag of 14 and 17 fd sexual partners on Grdr and other siar apps, acrdg to a 2018 study by Northwtern Universy rearchers.
Turban recently -published an article the Journal of the Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry timatg that about one quarter of all gay and bisexual adolcent mal are g Grdr and siar apps — likely hundreds of thoands of youth natnwi. He’s seen gay teens end up at an emergency room Boston — where he worked until last year — crisis after beg sexually exploed by men they met on Grdr yet too ashamed to seek help om other adults.
SEXUAL BEHAVR PATTERNS OF GAY UNIVERSY MEN: IMPLITNS FOR PREVENTG HIV FECTN
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He says he has received some phback om members of the gay muny about his foc on Grdr, when there are so many s targetg children. There’s a history of anti-gay propaganda patg gay men as pedophil, he said, when there is no rearch to show they are more likely to be predators than others.
But Turban says homophobia is also to blame for why LGBTQ youth have so few outlets to fd timacy and also why their victimizatn is so seldom talked about. He says clicians and fay members should do more to talk to gay youth about the health and safety risks of datg apps. “The wild wt of the gay world”.
Bradley Tyrrell, 35, of Newton says the app is a “double-edged sword” — a place to meet gay men but also wh many unknowns. “It’s the wild wt of the gay world.
TO BE YOUNG & GAY
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Kathryn Mapagal, a rearch profsor at Northwtern Universy, says she first asked teens about hook-up apps 2016 when she was preparg a sex tn program for gay and bisexual boys. Her team nducted more surveys to talk about why they get on the apps — often gay and qutng teens lookg for muny a world that don’t wele them.
Chavez says he first turned to Grdr middle school hopg to learn om others about what means to be gay, qutns he uldn’t answer at home. He said Grdr hook-ups gave him the false imprsn beg gay was all about sex. “Jt bee I was troduced to this one guy who probably isn’t gay and jt is a pedophile, like, don’t mean that that’s how the muny is, ” he said.
PORTLAND'S LONG-RUNNG UNRAGE GAY NIGHT CLUB THE ESPE HAS CLOSED, AND CAN'T FD A NEW SPACE
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