Reports claimed that a 'gay sex predator' repeatedly asslted two trs who broke to his home.
Contents:
- SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT
- UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT
Three stat still require people nvicted of havg gay sex prr to the Supreme Court's lg Lawrence v. Texas 2003 to register as sex offenrs. * gay sexual predator *
LGBTQ people are at creased risk for beg targeted for sex crim, as historil prejudice and stigma have picted LGBTQ people—pecially gay/bisexual men—as sexual predators. 65-year-old, Whe, gay man.
The average age among rponnts was 51; 87% were Whe; and 20% intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, queer/pansexual, and/or transgenr (LGBTQ). “I’m outraged that 2021 that we have what is sentially a registry of gay sex, ” Stgar said. 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.
UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
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.