The Che gay datg app Blued boasts 40 ln registered ers worldwi while beg based a untry where most LGBT men and women still feel locked the closet, wr Saša Petricic.
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- GAY DATG APP GRDR DISAPPEARS OM MULTIPLE APP STOR CHA
- GAY DATG APP THRIV CHA, WHERE LGBT RIGHTS ARE LAGGG
GAY DATG APP GRDR DISAPPEARS OM MULTIPLE APP STOR CHA
Beijg — Gay datg app Grdr has disappeared om multiple app stor Cha as thori tighten ntrol of the untry's already heavily policed ter and purge onle behavr the lg Communist Party dislik. Although the world's most populo natn crimalized homosexualy 1997, same-sex marriage is illegal and LGBTQ issu rema taboo.
The LGBTQ muny is unr prsure as censorship of web ntent b wh a ban on pictns of gay romance films. New documentary explor gay life Cha. Homosexualy is legal the untry, but LGBTQ people have no accs to many legal rights such as marriage and discrimatn protectn.
Lnched 2012, Blued is a datg app primarily for gay ers. Fka (formerly known as Aloha) is a Tr-like datg app for gay ers. Ined, the staff here shows far more gay pri than most Che 's bee they work for Blued, a gay datg app that's quickly bee the most popular the world.
GAY DATG APP THRIV CHA, WHERE LGBT RIGHTS ARE LAGGG
It boasts 40 ln registered ers while based a untry where most LGBT men and women still feel locked the closet — where homosexualy, while no longer illegal, is still officially labelled "abnormal. "Cha mt ban abive gay 'nversn therapy, ' rights group saysTime to celebrate or act of prott? Pri means different thgs to different peopleIt helps that the CEO of Blued has bee somethg of an in the nascent Che gay movement, fightg his way om a youth spent sperately lookg for love onle small-town ter fés.
"I want to be able to stand up and tell people that there is a guy named Geng Le Cha, who is gay, livg a very happy life, who even has his own adopted baby, " said Ma, referrg to the psdonym he has ed sce his days wrg an unrground blog about gay life the small astal cy of Qghuangdao. Publicly, he wore a p's uniform and enforced laws that clud a ban on homosexualy (which was outlawed Cha until 1997), and was married to a woman. Privately, Ma ran a webse popular wh Cha's stigmatized gay muny, timated to be 70 ln photo of Ma and his boyiend was taken the 1990s, when he fell love while trag at a police amy.
It's also movg beyond datg to offer adoptn servic to gay upl and ee HIV ttg clics the scen, Ma his profile and polil nnectns to lobby officials to improve LGBT rights and protectns. Alberta judge dismiss bid to place gay-straight alliance law on holdBill to expunge gay-sex crimal rerds tak effect Canada today"We are tryg to ph forward the LGBT movement and change thgs for the better, " said Ma.