Hor Has Officially Changed ‘The Gay App’ Forever | Hor, the Queer Social Network

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• HOR HAS OFFICIALLY CHANGED ‘THE GAY APP’ FOREVER
• 10 BT GAY DATG APPS & S FOR LGBTQ+
• RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAY APP E AND HIV TTG AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN SHENZHEN, CHA: A SERIAL CROSS-SECTNAL STUDY

HOR HAS OFFICIALLY CHANGED ‘THE GAY APP’ FOREVER

24, 2019 — Hor, the world’s premier gay social work wh 25 ln ers globally, has clared a rapid shift of men g gay apps, 100 days after lnchg s Versn 5 wh a brand-new home experience that mak easier than ever to nnect more meangful ways.

Content helps ers to intify terts and shifts the foc of nnectg wh other gay men away om their physil proximy, featur or stats, which were the hallmarks of the first generatn of gay apps. No matter whether their terts lie entertament, sports, culture, sexual health or travel, Hor enabl gay men to nnect wh a work of many lns of gay men a relevant and safe way.

Hor is already the number one gay app markets like France, Rsia, Brazil, Turkey and Taiwan, and is rapidly expandg s sizable er base the Uned Stat. “Acrdg to AppAnnie (), over 90% of gay men are not g a gay app today, ” says Wtig, “bee they loathe the limed utily for datg or hookg up provid by cumbent apps. Wh over 25 ln diverse ers globally, the Hor missn is to spire and empower gay men to create a global, nnected muny that mov society forward.

10 BT GAY DATG APPS & S FOR LGBTQ+

Whether chattg wh guys nearby or gettg ‘ the know’ about issu and topics important to the muny, gay men are uned through Hor’s er-generated social ntent and origal edorial ntent om s team of award-wng journalists. Powered by leadg-edge technology, Hor has bee the number one gay app markets like France, Rsia, Brazil, Turkey, and Taiwan, and is rapidly expandg s sizable er base the Uned Stat. In te early-21st-century style, I met my current partner after we matched on multiple apps before agreeg to a first, the prent state of datg looks fe if you’re a whe, young, cisgenr gay man searchg for an easy hookup.

Even if Grdr’s many troubl have turned you off, there are several petg optns, cludg, Scff, Jack’d, and Hor and relative newers such as Chappy, Bumble’s gay if you’re not a whe, young, cisgenr man on a male-centric app, you may get a naggg sense that the queer datg platforms simply were not signed for you. Receivg unsoliced nus is so wispread on gay male-foced datg apps that Grdr even has a profile field to let ers dite if they wish to receive NSFW pics. 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 .

RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAY APP E AND HIV TTG AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN SHENZHEN, CHA: A SERIAL CROSS-SECTNAL STUDY

” 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.