A data analysis nducted by an outsi rearch firm, and penntly verified by BuzzFeed News, shows that a popular gay datg app is sharg s ers’ HIV stat wh two other pani. <i>(Update: Late on Monday Grdr said would stop sharg this rmatn.)</i>
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- GAY DATG APP GRDR SAYS SHARED HIV STAT OF ERS
- GRDR WAS A SAFE SPACE FOR GAY MEN. ITS HIV STAT LEAK BETRAYED
- HOW GRDR, A POPULAR GAY DATG APP, POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
GAY DATG APP GRDR SAYS SHARED HIV STAT OF ERS
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GRDR WAS A SAFE SPACE FOR GAY MEN. ITS HIV STAT LEAK BETRAYED
Grdr was lnched a ago as a way for gay men to meet, and not jt for dner and a movie.
Whether ’s teenagers beg groomed by other men or dividuals g the app to feed to their unhealthy pg mechanisms, the culture on Grdr, as well as gay hookup culture general, needs ser change. Even Troye Sivan opened up on his unfortable experience on Grdr to The New Yorker, “One of s tracks [on Sivan’s send album], ‘Seventeen, ’ is based on an experience mon to young gay men but rarely talked about.
HOW GRDR, A POPULAR GAY DATG APP, POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
Acrdg to Jack Turban, a gay psychiatrist, “Grdr, tentnally or not, also leverag a psychologil ncept lled variable rat rercement, which rewards for clickg e at unpredictable tervals. As a rult, men start to see each other as objects stead of human begs, which also rults the prejudic and racism wh the gay datg muny. In fact, the unhealthy e of gay datg apps may keep gay men om fdg lastg long-term relatnships.
The gay datg app Grdr says shared s ers' HIV stat wh two pani, a practice vowed to halt amid ncerns about data privacy. Gay men have always need safe spac, somewhere they uld ngregate whout fear of stigma and judgment or, even more sentially, persecutn and vlence. Over the past several s, those spac were more often than not gay bars and clubs, where gay men flocked to be themselv a way that wasn’t always possible “pole society”.