Unseen, Part 3: Popular Gay Datg App Grdr Pos Exploatn Risk To Mors

Contents:

• THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
• UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
• WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
• MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD
• LONDON FOR A 15 YEAR OLD GAY TEEN? - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• 15 YEAR OLD SON HAS JT ANNOUNCED HE IS GAY - ADVICE NEED ON BOUNDARI - LON
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS

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

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WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

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(PHOTO: Dhany Osman / Yahoo News Sgapore)SINGAPORE — A 43-year-old man engaged a sex act wh a 15-year-old boy he met through a gay social workg applitn was ught when the police kicked down the door to the stairse landg the pair was Khai Shong, a Sgaporean, was jailed for seven months on Wednday (11 Augt) after earlier pleadg guilty to one unt of sexual exploatn of a young person, wh another taken to nsiratn for his, a former employee wh People’s Associatn, had origally claimed trial to his charg but plead guilty midway durg his trial after the charg were amend. Ch origally faced a charge of attempted sexual peratn of a person unr 16, and procurg the missn of an obscene act by a young has sce lost his job, which he held for nearly a met the victim, now 18, through Blued, an applitn for gay social workg.

MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD

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LONDON FOR A 15 YEAR OLD GAY TEEN? - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

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 study by Northwtern Universy rearchers.

15 YEAR OLD SON HAS JT ANNOUNCED HE IS GAY - ADVICE NEED ON BOUNDARI - LON

Turban recently -published an article 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 foc on Grdr, when there are so many s targetg children.

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.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

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”.