Wisns middle school featur 'This Book is Gay' library, stirrg onle outrage | WLUK

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• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• ARE GAY DATG APPS INPATIBLE WH FDG LOVE?

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

Simkhai, a gay man and tech entreprenr, helped lnch the groundbreakg gay hookup and datg app 2009. By retroftg gay social and romantic teractns to the digal age, Grdr brought lns of people together ways that gay bars — the longtime fol pots of LGBTQ social scen — simply uldn’t. But unr Simkhai’s watch, also laid bare, and some say worsened, the physil and racial discrimatn that has long plagued the gay muny.

Gregory Sffidi / MottoSimkhai lnched a queer datg and hookup app this month lled Motto, which he says has novative featur to help prevent the “toxicy” and “discrimatn” that have st shadows over other gay datg apps, cludg the one he spearhead, amid a barrage of ntroversi for the better part of the last .

ARE GAY DATG APPS INPATIBLE WH FDG LOVE?

’” Motto is a sex-posive matchmakg app for gay and queer hookups and sual datg. ” The pany is still buildg up s team, and isn’t makg s er numbers public yet, he, meanwhile, ntu to domate the gay datg app space, wh about 11 ln monthly active ers around the world last year, acrdg to a pany news release.

In many ways, they reflect the racism, discrimatn and excln that persist more broadly wh gay culture, particularly among whe, cisgenr men. In fact, this was a theme of this summer’s groundbreakg film “Fire Island, ” which lled particular attentn to a racist phrase — “no fats, no femm, no Asians” — that is still pervasive on gay datg apps through d language, spe ntent moratn and discrimatn polici. The group surveyed 5, 500 people who regularly ed at least one of the apps meant for gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people.

“While gay, bi, and trans people have long been subjected to discrimatn, stigma and hate speech om outsi our muni, the way we treat each other onle n also e harm, ” the report said.

It’s a ncept that has rmed much of the discsn recent years about how to reform gay datg apps geared toward LGBTQ people, who, like everyone else, ntue to grapple wh the plited role social media plays the muny — spe the refuge n provi om heteronormative culture. Grdr – Gay Datg & Chat.

Scff – Gay Chat, Datg & Social. Scff, which appeared the app market 2010 after Grdr but before Tr, is currently the send most popular gay male datg/hookup app.

Scff is a gay social workg app that is siar to Grdr but aimed towards an edgier, more manly clientele. Scff, an app for the gay, bi, trans, and queer muny, stands out om the crowd wh s novative “Scff Match” functn, which ensur that sgle men lookg for dat are only shown other sgle men who are also terted romantic nnectns. For stance, you n jo “muni” to meet dividuals who share your terts, and you n disver upg gay events your regn by visg the event page.

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