This past week, gays around the world hunted down the universally understood exploding-head emoji upon learning that Grindr — the popular dating (OK, fine, hookup) app used by more than 3.5 million gay, bisexual, and transgender men — was sharing sensitive user information with third-party companies. Among this sensitive information? Just the usual stuff: e-mail address, phone ID, location info, HIV status.
It is tempting to begin a story about this city’s mayoral race with an anecdote about the politically engaged, naked voter who took a few minutes to listen in on some street-corner campaigning on a recent afternoon, an easy cliche to capture the renowned out-there nature of the place. But let’s save that for later, because this is a serious, milestone moment in San Francisco’s political life.
If, like me, one of your first introductions to the LGBTQ scene was Queer as Folk (both the British and American versions), then your main takeaway was probably that gay men like to fuck… a lot. From the dark rooms of clubs (yes, they very much do exist beyond the cliché), the saunas and bathhouses, and now the apps installed on nearly every gay man’s phone, gay sex is accessible night and day.
The queer community in the U.S. spends 10% of its purchasing power, nearly $100 billion, on travel. Grindr – yes Grinder – recently surveyed its Millennial-users about their travel habits, and what they found is surprising. The editor-in-chief for Grindr and Grindr’s INTO digital magazine, Zachary Stafford, joined us on Queer Money™ to talk about the findings. Grindr conducted the LGBTQ travel-focused study to better understand how its users use the Grindr app and how it can improve the user experience.
According to preliminary tallies from the city’s first mail-in election, voters in Anchorage, Alaska appear to have defeated Proposition 1, a controversial measure which would have licensed and mandated discrimination against transgender people. Tuesday was the last day for voters to postmark their ballots, but according to the significant number of votes already cast (23 percent of all registered voters)…
The New Zealand parliament on Tuesday night unanimously passed a bill that is expected to allow about 1,000 men to apply to have past convictions for homosexual activity removed from their criminal records. Homosexuality was decriminalized in New Zealand in 1986, but men who were convicted before that date still have the convictions on their records.
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