Grdr: Gay Man Says He Was Tortured but Still Us LGBTQ Datg App

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

Grdr Datg App for Gay Men.

But for those who might be a ltle h, Grdr is a mobile social workg and datg app for gay men. The app helps ers fd other gay men by utilizg their mobile's GPS technology.

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.

LEAR OF DALLAS GROUP THAT TARGETED GAY MEN ON GRDR GETS 23 YEARS FOR VLENT ROBBERI

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. The gay men I nnected wh tend to make one of two jtifitns. The other way that I observed some gay men jtifyg their discrimatn was by amg a way that put the emphasis back on the app.

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.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

"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.

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.

HOW GRDR, A POPULAR GAY DATG APP, POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS

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.

But his punishment was pped at 26 years as a ndn of his guilty plea entered other men were sent to feral prison this summer after havg plead guilty the Ceniceros-Deleon, 19, was sentenced to 22 years prison for aidg and abettg hate crime acts, aidg and abettg rjackg and aidg and abettg the e of a firearm durg a vlent Henry, 24, was sentenced to 20 years for one unt of nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg and rjackg and one unt of aidg and abettg hate crime acts, urt rerds Michael Atkson, 24, was sentenced to 11 years and eight months for one unt of nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg and rjackg, and one unt of aidg and abettg kidnappg, acrdg to urt four men ed Grdr to create fake profil and “pose as gay men terted ‘dat’ to lure gay men, ” thori said. “I don’t have any hate toward the gay muny.

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

”Related:3 Dallas men sentenced for 2017 attacks on gay men who were lured via Grdr app. Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said.

Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law. Gay people have been targeted by fay members, neighbors, -workers, classmat and teachers -- as well as police officers, the report said. In many of the episos, police allegedly refed to offer assistance, and some s beme openly discrimatory toward gay victims.

Gay workers were also facg job discrimatn a natn already bet by high unemployment. Many of the terviewe said job hirgs and firgs were beg largely termed by sexual orientatn, while other gay people lucky to have jobs faced sexual harassment the workplace.