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Contents:

• ARE GAY DATG APPS INPATIBLE WH FDG LOVE?
• 5 STGGL OF DATG IN THE GAY COMMUNY
• 5 MEN REVEAL THE BIGGT DATG CHALLENG FOR GAY MEN INDIA
• THE CHALLENG OF GAY MEN RELATNSHIP AND 8 WAYS TO MAKE IT EASIER
• LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL ONLE DATERS REPORT POSIVE EXPERIENC – BUT ALSO HARASSMENT
• THE CHALLENG I FACE WHEN DATG AS A GAY MAN WH A DISABILY
• GAY MALE UPL FACE MORE CHALLENG, HIGHER STS TO START A FAY
• HOW TO TACKLE GAY RELATNSHIP PROBLEMS

ARE GAY DATG APPS INPATIBLE WH FDG LOVE?

"It was like, 'Well, I gus we're datg now bee we're both gay and who else is there?

5 STGGL OF DATG IN THE GAY COMMUNY

Bisexual people are ls likely than gay men or lbian women to be fully out to important people their liv (Pew Rearch Center, 2013). Dpe variatns labels, many people who do not intify as heterosexual, lbian, or gay share siar experienc. Addnally, many people assume that bisexual people a different-sex relatnship are straight, and that bisexual people a same-sex relatnship are gay or lbian.

The assumptns remove the inti of bisexual dividuals, a procs known as bisexual erasure (Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network, 2016). While straight and gay men do not show the same bias wh datg profil, straight women fd bisexual men to be ls attractive and ls mascule than straight men, and are ls likely to date or have sex wh bisexual men (Gleason, Vencill, & Sprankle, 2019). While media reprentatn has creased recent years, posive bisexual reprentatn lags behd gay and lbian reprentatn (Johnson, 2016).

Dpe the stereotyp, relatnships wh or between bisexual, gay, or lbian dividuals are likely more siar to heterosexual relatnships than most people thk.

5 MEN REVEAL THE BIGGT DATG CHALLENG FOR GAY MEN INDIA

Further, bisexual, lbian, and gay people are no different the extent to which they're attracted to nsensual non-monogamy (Moors, Rub, Matsick, Ziegler, & Conley, 2014). Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (2016). What do we know about gay and lbian upl?.

It’s not jt a gay male thgs: Sexual mory women and men are equally attracted to nsensual non-monogamy.

Comg out to fay and iends as bisexually intified young adult woman: A discsn of homophobia, biphobia, and heteronormativy. Recent years have seen a proliferatn of webs and smartphone apps signed to help gay men pursue their sexual liberatn a digal age.

THE CHALLENG OF GAY MEN RELATNSHIP AND 8 WAYS TO MAKE IT EASIER

But when apps are signed to provi immediate sexual gratifitn, are they pable of servg the needs of gay men seekg love and long-term relatnships?

A recent study out of France by Christian Lippe explored the nversatnal differenc between ers of Grdr and Tr (wh the former terg to gay men, while the latter is a datg applitn ed by LGBTQ+ and heterosexual dividuals). By examg the nversatnal texts of participants who agreed to share their app chat history as well as through -person terviews, Lippe noted that gay men tend to scribe a sense of “llective prsure” to nform to the subculture’s foc on hookg up through apps like Grdr.

LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL ONLE DATERS REPORT POSIVE EXPERIENC – BUT ALSO HARASSMENT

Cumulatively, Lippe’s rearch illtrat that gay men who e apps might strategilly lim the amount of romantic nnotatn nversatns onle to ensure that the arranged meet-up remas strictly sexual nature. If gay men th perceive the social norm on datg apps to be towards sual enunters, what is this likely to nvey to men searchg for love? A recent study out of the Universy of Toronto terviewed 41 men livg downtown Toronto to learn more about how gay men unrstood the ncept of nnectn wh the ntext of gay datg apps.

More specifilly, the study was terted how participants' seekg short or long-term nnectns wh others was associated wh their sense of cln wh gay datg apps’ onle muni. The rearch nclud that gay men felt they were expected to prent themselv on datg apps as nfint, self-assured, and whout any securi. Are apps like Grdr changg the odds of fdg love as a Gay man?

THE CHALLENG I FACE WHEN DATG AS A GAY MAN WH A DISABILY

Prev rearch has shown that many gay men wh apps prefer to prent themselv a masculized fashn by prentg their bodi as f and -shape and g short phras whout any sentimental or romantic nnotatns. Ined, femmephobia, or the soc-cultural valuatn and subordatn of femy, is mon wh ntemporary gay men’s spac and has been associated wh how men prent themselv onle.

GAY MALE UPL FACE MORE CHALLENG, HIGHER STS TO START A FAY

The Universy of Toronto study nnected femmephobia to the experience of gay men on datg apps to explore how might shape the way men feel they should teract wh other gay men onle environments. In other words, might femmephobia be a ntributg factor to the social norms of onle datg for gay men that support short-term hookups and disurage the openly stated sire for a romantic relatnship?

HOW TO TACKLE GAY RELATNSHIP PROBLEMS

The study suggted that femmephobia and the femizatn of beg vulnerable, timate, emotnally pennt, and/or romantic functn together to disurage gay men om beg timate wh each other about their feelgs.

This, turn, prents challeng for velopg a sense of nnectn wh the gay muny for men who do value the velopment of romantic nnectns. Ultimately, the participants not only discsed g to nform behavurally to the app’s unwrten l but a procs of actually ternalizg certa "tths" about the gay male muny, cludg that gay men, do not "date" and that hookg up is the normative expectatn wh gay men’s sexual cultur and muni.