How Grdr, A Popular Gay Datg App, Pos Exploatn Risk To Mors : NPR

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• GRDR CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON GAY DATG NORMSSWIPG LEFT ON THE OLD, TAPPG RIGHT TO THE NEW: THE EVOLUTN OF GAY ROMANCENATHAN CHEN·FOLLOW5 M READ·JUL 7--SHAREPHOTO BY MARCELO CHAGAS OM PEXELSHANG ONTO YOUR DATG LIFE, BEE THIS ONE’S GOG TO BE A WILD RI THROUGH GRDR-LAND. I’LL TELL YOU HOW THIS CHEEKY LTLE APP HAS SHAKEN UP THE GAY DATG SCENE WAYS NO ONE ULD’VE IMAGED.WE’VE GOT AN APP FOR THATSO, I WAKE UP, BREW SOME FFEE, AND THEN, LIKE ANY SELF-RPECTG DIGAL NIZEN OF THE 21ST CENTURY, I CHECK MY PHONE. AND THE FIRST APP THAT GRAC MY MORNG GROGGY EY? GRDR. YOU HEARD ME, RIGHT. IT’S THIS FLASHY, VIVID YELLOW IN THAT’S QUICKLY BEG THE NEW ROOSTER TOWN — CK-A-DOODLE-DOOG TO A NEW DAY OF DATG PROSPECTS.IT’S NO SECRET — GRDR HAS REVOLUTNIZED THE WAY WE GAY GUYS NNECT. BUT HOW, YOU ASK? WELL, FOR STARTERS, WE’RE NOT WASTG TIME AT BARS HOPG TO BUMP TO MR. RIGHT ANYMORE. WH GRDR, HE ULD BE JT A SCROLL AWAY, EVEN IF HE’S CURRENTLY A BATHROOM STALL AWAY.NOW, THIS DON’T MEAN I’VE PLETED STOPPED GOG TO BARS. OH NO, SIR! I STILL LOVE MY CKTAILS, JT LIKE I ADORE MY NON-APP TERACTNS. IT’S JT THAT GRDR HAS GIVEN A NEW WAY TO MEET PEOPLE. BUT, HEY, ’S NOT ALL SUNSHE AND RABOWS HERE.WHY I DON’T HANG OUT GAY BARS ANYMOREAN HONT LOOK AT THE CULTURE OF JUDGEMENTALISM AND SWIPE CULTURE AND INSTANT GRATIFITN
• GRDR - GAY CHATFOR IOS
• UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
• HOW GRDR, A POPULAR GAY DATG APP, POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
• 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
• GRDR REVIEWS 2022: IS IT GOOD FOR GAY DATG?

GRDR CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON GAY DATG NORMSSWIPG LEFT ON THE OLD, TAPPG RIGHT TO THE NEW: THE EVOLUTN OF GAY ROMANCENATHAN CHEN·FOLLOW5 M READ·JUL 7--SHAREPHOTO BY MARCELO CHAGAS OM PEXELSHANG ONTO YOUR DATG LIFE, BEE THIS ONE’S GOG TO BE A WILD RI THROUGH GRDR-LAND. I’LL TELL YOU HOW THIS CHEEKY LTLE APP HAS SHAKEN UP THE GAY DATG SCENE WAYS NO ONE ULD’VE IMAGED.WE’VE GOT AN APP FOR THATSO, I WAKE UP, BREW SOME FFEE, AND THEN, LIKE ANY SELF-RPECTG DIGAL NIZEN OF THE 21ST CENTURY, I CHECK MY PHONE. AND THE FIRST APP THAT GRAC MY MORNG GROGGY EY? GRDR. YOU HEARD ME, RIGHT. IT’S THIS FLASHY, VIVID YELLOW IN THAT’S QUICKLY BEG THE NEW ROOSTER TOWN — CK-A-DOODLE-DOOG TO A NEW DAY OF DATG PROSPECTS.IT’S NO SECRET — GRDR HAS REVOLUTNIZED THE WAY WE GAY GUYS NNECT. BUT HOW, YOU ASK? WELL, FOR STARTERS, WE’RE NOT WASTG TIME AT BARS HOPG TO BUMP TO MR. RIGHT ANYMORE. WH GRDR, HE ULD BE JT A SCROLL AWAY, EVEN IF HE’S CURRENTLY A BATHROOM STALL AWAY.NOW, THIS DON’T MEAN I’VE PLETED STOPPED GOG TO BARS. OH NO, SIR! I STILL LOVE MY CKTAILS, JT LIKE I ADORE MY NON-APP TERACTNS. IT’S JT THAT GRDR HAS GIVEN A NEW WAY TO MEET PEOPLE. BUT, HEY, ’S NOT ALL SUNSHE AND RABOWS HERE.WHY I DON’T HANG OUT GAY BARS ANYMOREAN HONT LOOK AT THE CULTURE OF JUDGEMENTALISM AND SWIPE CULTURE AND INSTANT GRATIFITN

A new petor has also joed the field: Match Group lnched s Archer datg app on June 1, focg on gay, bisexual and queer see an improvg environment for datg apps as a whole, though Grdr learship is quick to note the platform offers more than jt that. A 'gay super-app'Grdr is also by planng the future of the app.

GRDR - GAY CHATFOR IOS

If you're gog to be an vtor Grdr, you need to realize that sex is a really big part of gay culture, and sex is a really big part of Grdr, " Arison said. ""We want to be the gay super-app, " he said. Swipg Left on the Old, Tappg Right to the New: The Evolutn of Gay RomancePhoto by Marcelo Chagas om PexelsHang onto your datg life, bee this one’s gog to be a wild ri through Grdr-land.

I’ll tell you how this cheeky ltle app has shaken up the gay datg scene ways no one uld’ve ’ve Got an App for ThatSo, I wake up, brew some ffee, and then, like any self-rpectg digal nizen of the 21st century, I check my phone. It’s this flashy, vivid yellow in that’s quickly beg the new rooster town — ck-a-doodle-doog to a new day of datg ’s no secret — Grdr has revolutnized the way we gay guys nnect. LGBTQIA+ datg app Grdr lnched a unn wh Communitns Workers of Ameri (CWA) rponse to mass tech layoffs and homophobic threats.

UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS

”The unn also addrsed the rise of systemic homophobia the U. Users n filter profil based on certa preferenc, chat wh tertg match, and also narrow down potential dat g a distctive geolotn olst gay datg app is showg s ageOnce the bt optn for LGBTQ+ datg apps, Grdr is now one of the worst.

Though s target dience do tend to be gay mal, Grdr advertis self as a datg app for the entire LGBTQ+ muny. Aimed specifilly at gay men, Scff clus strict secury measur to elimate spam profil.

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

German Chavez was 14 years old when he first started g a gay datg app lled Grdr to fd adult men to pay him for need to help his troubled sgle mother pay the bills, he said, and had no trouble fdg men to purchase him on the popular lotn-based mobile 25 and years away om the sex tra, Chavez is warng other mors to stay away om Grdr, one of the most popular apps the untry for gay and bisexual men. The pany touts s mobile platform as “The World’s Largt Social Networkg App for Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer People” and says s ers have to be 18 years old and the app is teemg wh unrage gay, bisexual and qutng boys, acrdg to rearchers, child exploatn specialists and ers like Chavez who say they n easily lie about their age to ga accs to the LGBTQ teens are seekg nnectn a world that provis few safe spac, rearchers say. More than half of sexually active gay and bisexual boys between the ag of 14 and 17 fd sexual partners on Grdr and other siar apps, acrdg to a 2018.

the Journal of the Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry timatg that about one quarter of all gay and bisexual adolcent mal are g Grdr and siar apps — likely hundreds of thoands of youth natnwi. He’s seen gay teens end up at an emergency room Boston — where he worked until last year — crisis after beg sexually exploed by men they met on Grdr yet too ashamed to seek help om other adults. He says he has received some phback om members of the gay muny about his.

There’s a history of anti-gay propaganda patg gay men as pedophil, he said, when there is no rearch to show they are more likely to be predators than others.

BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

But Turban says homophobia is also to blame for why LGBTQ youth have so few outlets to fd timacy and also why their victimizatn is so seldom talked about. He says clicians and fay members should do more to talk to gay youth about the health and safety risks of datg apps. “The wild wt of the gay world”Grdr was created 2009 by Israeli-born, Tufts Universy graduate Joel Simkhai.

Bradley Tyrrell, 35, of Newton says the app is a “double-edged sword” — a place to meet gay men but also wh many unknowns. “It’s the wild wt of the gay world.

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

Kathryn Mapagal, a rearch profsor at Northwtern Universy, says she first asked teens about hook-up apps 2016 when she was preparg a sex tn program for gay and bisexual boys.

Her team nducted more surveys to talk about why they get on the apps — often gay and qutng teens lookg for muny a world that don’t wele them. Chavez says he first turned to Grdr middle school hopg to learn om others about what means to be gay, qutns he uldn’t answer at home.

He said Grdr hook-ups gave him the false imprsn beg gay was all about sex.

GRDR REVIEWS 2022: IS IT GOOD FOR GAY DATG?

“Jt bee I was troduced to this one guy who probably isn’t gay and jt is a pedophile, like, don’t mean that that’s how the muny is, ” he said.

“That’s the sry part about Grdr, that n be, like, lerally a guy who don’t intify as gay and jt lik kids.

"That's the sry part about Grdr, that n be, like, lerally a guy who don't intify as gay and jt lik kids. “The gay muny n be the most lorful place the world, ” he said.

Unseen, part 3: Popular gay datg app Grdr pos exploatn risk to mors. “When you’re alg wh the vulnerabili of somebody who’s gay and who's velopg our society, ’s tenfold more difficult and more imprsnable, ’’ she said.

Kimberly Nelson, a profsor of Communy Health Scienc at the Boston Universy School of Public Health, says s natural for gay teens to head to Grdr to explore their sexualy. ”Chris Bat, a Worcter-based traffickg survivor and advote, wish he had been given more warngs about sex traffickg school when he was gay youth livg ral Connecticut.

In a NutshellGrdr is the largt datg app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, and has lns of daily ers om all over the world.