Grdr Addictn and Ovesg Gay Hook-Up Apps

Contents:

• GRDR ADDICTN - A CONCERN FOR GAY MENTAL HEALTH?
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• GAY DATG APP GRDR'S STOCK SOARS AFTER GOG PUBLIC
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY DATG APP GRDR NAM NEW CEO AHEAD OF S PUBLIC LISTG
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

GRDR ADDICTN - A CONCERN FOR GAY MENTAL HEALTH?

Employe at the gay hookup app Grdr announced Thursday that they had lnched a unn.

The founr of Grdr, Joel Simkhai, has lnched a new gay and queer matchmakg app, om Simkhai and Alex Hostetler, is available New York Cy and Miami startg today, acrdg to a news is Simkhai's first venture sce he left Grdr 2018.

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

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More so, are they healthy for gay men's mental health? For stance, do datg apps make gay men more prone to prsn and anxiety?

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GAY DATG APP GRDR'S STOCK SOARS AFTER GOG PUBLIC

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JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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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.

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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.

"The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, " said Cristian González Cabrera, gay rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Six other Wtern natns -- cludg Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia -- ntue to crimalize gay sex, wh penalti as weighty as a prison for "gross cency wh another person of the same sex.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

LGBTQIA+ datg app Grdr lnched a unn wh Communitns Workers of Ameri (CWA) rponse to mass tech layoffs and homophobic threats. ”The unn also addrsed the rise of systemic homophobia the U.