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California prosecutors have arrested a man they dubbed “the gay bandit” after he allegedly robbed numerous gay men he met through the M4M section on Craigslist. A convicted felon accused of targeting gay men who were looking for dates online was charged with kidnapping, robbery, carjacking and other crimes in Superior Court Monday. Angel Pena Ayala, 24, who was on …

Christian dating site eHarmony has finally settled the class action lawsuit which claimed that the company discriminated against gays in California by not letting them use the site. Under a proposed settlement filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, eHarmony will link its straight and gay Web sites and allow people to use both without paying double fees. Plaintiff’s attorney …

“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.” – So says the site’s founder after booting more than 5000 members for gaining weight. The members were singled out after posting pictures of themselves that reportedly showed they had put on pounds over the holiday period. The …

NBC is reporting that Phillip Markoff, dubbed by tabloids as “the Craigslist Killer”, also used the site to solicit sex with men and transsexuals. Police think that there may be more victims of Markoff who are afraid to come forward. He is thought to have used Craigslist to meet potential robbery victims in order to support his gambling addiction.

Last year a New Jersey man successfully sued Christian-run dating site E-Harmony under his state’s anti-discrimination laws. As part of their settlement, today the site launches their LGBT dating campaign. As of today, EHarmony comes out of the closet. The adamantly heterosexual dating website, which has accepted only male-female couples since its inception in 2000, is launching a gay matchmaking …

The Washington Post writes about the latest iPhone app which uses the device’s geolocation function so homos can find other homos that happen to be nearby. We’ve seen a handful of dating applications that cater to the straight community, and today brings the launch of Grindr (iTunes Link), one of the first iPhone applications geared towards gay and bisexual men. …

The MySpace page of murdered gay newsman George Weber’s 16 year-old killer has been found and it’s extremely disturbing. From John Katehis’ profile: My name is John, I am sixteen years of age and live in Queens, New York. I enjoy long conversations, drinking, bike riding, hanging out, roof hopping, hanging off trains, any type of Parkour exercise, Extreme Violence …

Using the murdered gay newsman’s email history, the NYPD has easily found the killer of George Weber, a 16 year-old he met on Craigslist. The killer has confessed. A 16-year-old confessed to stabbing WABC newsman George Weber during a drugged-up date with the older man, police sources said Wednesday. The emotionally disturbed teenager was arrested early Wednesday morning after he …

A year ago I posted the list of the most popular online “dating” sites as measured by an outfit called Online Personals Watch. Below is their most recent ranking, listed by number of visits, not membership. On the homo hook-up tip, Gay.com was #11 last year, now it’s dropped entirely off the chart. Manhunt moved up a notch to #7 …

From the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins: The surest way to lose the culture war is refusing to fight. Unfortunately, no company illustrates that better than eHarmony, whose shocking concession to the homosexual movement is sending tremors through the faith community. In New Jersey, a man named Eric McKinley filed a complaint against the dating service, arguing that its website …

Thanks to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey, eHarmony has been forced to drop their “no gays, no way” policy and beginning next year gay folks can use the service. Internet matchmaker eHarmony.com will provide same-sex matching services in 2009 under the terms of a settlement reached today in New Jersey. The online dating service, founded in 2000 in California, …

A 25 year-old Boston transman had his profile removed from a bisexual dating site last week after revealing to the site’s operators that he had recently transitioned. When Nick Teich created a free account on the online personals site BiDatingNow.com last week, he decided to disclose that he is transgender. Perhaps he shouldn’t have. “They say, tell us about yourself …

This weekend while I was writing The Revenge Of Plan B, I couldn’t remember or find the name of the hook-up site that everybody in SF was using in 1999, so eventually I just gave up and plugged “Manhunt” into the story. Somehow during my hunt for the site’s name, I came across a place called Online Personals Watch, which …