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Contents:
- GAY SOCIAL MEDIA: EXPLORG LGBTQ+ SPAC ON TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM, TELEGRAM, AND WHATSAPP
- JOE BIN GAVE A YOUNG GAY HIGH SCHOOLER THE URAGE TO E OUT. NOW, HE’S A CCIAL PART OF HIS WHE HOE TEAM
- SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND HEALTH AND WELL-BEG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER YOUTH: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
GAY SOCIAL MEDIA: EXPLORG LGBTQ+ SPAC ON TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM, TELEGRAM, AND WHATSAPP
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In 2021, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) teamed up wh Rankg Digal Rights and Goodw Simon Strategic Rearch to addrs the uptick of cyber-based vlence head-on. From gaymers to nng enthiasts, queer parentg groups, hikg clubs, practners of the healg arts, queer Star Wars fandom, you name —there’s a space on the app for everyone.
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 .
JOE BIN GAVE A YOUNG GAY HIGH SCHOOLER THE URAGE TO E OUT. NOW, HE’S A CCIAL PART OF HIS WHE HOE TEAM
’” 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.
SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND HEALTH AND WELL-BEG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER YOUTH: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
“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. Wh members galore, you n fd anyone: straight, gay, and bi; sgle, swger, and polyamoro.
We were ntacted today by the founr of the soon to lnch social work for gay men It lead to take a look around the gay male onle social workg space and wre the followg overview of some of the current market lears. From the proudly profsnal to the happily hedonistic, there may be somethg on this list for everyone – or at least everyone who’s a gay man.