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Contents:
- HOW GAY MEN JTIFY THEIR RACISM ON GRDR
- LEAR OF DALLAS GROUP THAT TARGETED GAY MEN ON GRDR GETS 23 YEARS FOR VLENT ROBBERI
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- HOW GRDR, A POPULAR GAY DATG APP, POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
- A GAY LLEGE STUNT SAYS HE STILL GRDR AFTER SURVIVG HORRIFIC TORTURE AT THE HANDS OF A MAN HE MET ON THE APP — BUT HE TAK STEPS TO PROTECT HIMSELF
HOW GAY MEN JTIFY THEIR RACISM ON GRDR
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LEAR OF DALLAS GROUP THAT TARGETED GAY MEN ON GRDR GETS 23 YEARS FOR VLENT ROBBERI
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The app helps ers fd other gay men by utilizg their mobile's GPS technology.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
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On gay datg apps like Grdr, many ers have profil that nta phras like "I don't date Black men, " or that claim they are "not attracted to Latos.
Sce 2015 I've been studyg LGBTQ culture and gay life, and much of that time has been spent tryg to untangle and unrstand the tensns and prejudic wh gay culture.
I'm seekg to move beyond simply scribg the problem and to better unrstand why some gay men behave this way. From 2015 to 2019 I terviewed gay men om the Midwt and Wt Coast regns of the Uned Stat. A slice of that project – which is currently unr review wh a top peer-reviewed social science journal – explor the way gay men ratnalize their sexual racism and discrimatn on Grdr.
HOW GRDR, A POPULAR GAY DATG APP, POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
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While social media apps have dramatilly altered the landspe of gay culture, the benefs om the technologil tools n sometim be difficult to see. Scff, another gay datg app, requir ers to reveal more of who they are.
However, one of the acced, a gay man who remaed anonymo his terview wh Project Q, said he was targeted on Grdr. "Gay sex stgs are not a thg of the past, however. And data secury gay apps remas a ncern anti-LGBTQ areas of the world, where thori uld e that rmatn to monor and entrap people.
A GAY LLEGE STUNT SAYS HE STILL GRDR AFTER SURVIVG HORRIFIC TORTURE AT THE HANDS OF A MAN HE MET ON THE APP — BUT HE TAK STEPS TO PROTECT HIMSELF
They were targeted — kidnapped, beaten and robbed — bee they were gay; huiated and four assailants ed the Grdr social workg app to lure their victims to a dark, abandoned apartment. Once si, the men were held ptive and subjected to gay slurs and beatgs, thori said. Jenks embraced gay stereotyp and th felt that the men were ial victims who wouldn’t report the crim to police, Gilbert of the victims, who asked not to be intified, told the judge that Jenks spent nsirable time “groomg” him on the datg app “like a predator” an effort to nvce him to show up for drks.
Prosecutors say that when the victims arrived, the assailants forced them to the vant apartment at the Solana Ridge plex near Buckner Boulevard and Forney Road East Dallas, where they were subjected to homophobic Jenks (left) was the last of four men, also cludg (ntug toward right) Michael Atkson, Pablo Ceniceros-Deleon and Daryl Henry, to be sent to feral prison nnectn wh a 2017 kidnappg-and-asslt scheme that targeted gay men.