Tag Archives: Grindr

Definitely not office-friendly. (Tipped by JMG reader Jared)

Boston police have issued a warning to the LGBT community after a rash of crimes that involved hook-up sites and cell phone apps. Multiple reports have been filed by gay men who say they were drugged and then robbed. Gay rights groups responded to the reports on Monday and expressed their concern in the community. ”We are saddened by the …

Grindr’s most famous (former!) customer wants you to know that he’s “just as attracted to men” as he was three years ago when he became a Christian and therefore he rejects the classification “ex-gay.”   One wonders how he made this clip without a computer.

“I have sold my computer and have had someone put a lock on my phone where I cannot download apps or access the Internet through a non-filtered browser. Ultimately, this isn’t the solution. My heart being captured by the grace of God and brought into humble obedience is the solution. But not taking precautions is dumb, so these are the …

“Despite my recent hypocritical behavior and disobedience to Christ, I stand firmly in saying that the Word of God, in totality, is true in every matter it addresses: including the sin of homosexual behavior. In all of this, the Word of Christ should not be questioned. It is not at fault, I am. Jesus is a good and loving Savior. …

“Ex-gay” advocate Matt Moore, who blogs against evil homosexuality for the Christian Post, recently moved to New Orleans.  Purely by coincidence, his photo has popped up on Grindr there.  Zinnia Jones rolls her eyes: Not only has the Grindr profile used Moore’s name, but also his age (he was born in 1989) and even the fact that he recently moved …

A Brooklyn woman has launched JSpot, a straight version of Grindr for Jews. Interestingly, you can’t join JSpot until the owner determines (via your Facebook page) that you aren’t a “jerk.” Elissa Shevinsky has been combing the streets of Williamsburg, Bushwick, Park Slope, Crown Heights, and other neighborhoods packed with singles under the age of 40, looking for recruits who …

What’s your schtick?

This is the same douchebag who said that watching Glee is “like stepping in a puddle of HIV.”

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A Hong Kong AIDS group is blaming Grindr for a local rise in STDs and HIV infections. Gay Star News reports: Spokesperson for AIDS Concern, Panda Cheung Yin-mei, told China Daily that Grindr ‘is one of the factors that are contributing to the record high levels of infections’. More worryingly, Cheung says attempts to engage with Grindr in order to …

Buzzfeed has some funnier ones.

Complaints about hook-up sites and their effect on the gay social scene have existed since before the launch of Manhunt. This week New York Magazine claims that Grindr is destroying Fire Island’s legendary see and be seen culture. Log in to Grindr on Fire Island, as you would anywhere else, and you’ll see a grid of 100 smiling faces and …

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The decline of gay nightclubs commenced well over a decade ago with the advent of AOL chat rooms. And further spurred both by the rapid gentrification of urban areas that once hosted multiple gay dance palaces and the increased social integration of LGBT youth with their straight peers, the first decade of the new century saw the demise of even …

What’s even hotter than being a self-hating homocon is attending a national hate group convention dedicated to seeing people like you locked up and hooking up with other sick kapos. White only, must be discreet.

Grindr has won the TechCrunch award for Best Location App. Geeks clearly don’t mind what it’s used for. Yay, nerds! (Via JMG reader Osman)

They don’t mention Grindr per se, but Cooper would have us think he’s unaware of “location-based apps.” Right.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports: A popular “meat-market” smartphone app that spawned a sexual revolution in Australia’s gay community has been compromised by a Sydney hacker, potentially exposing intimate personal chats, explicit photos and private information of users. The location-aware Grindr app enables gay men to meet other gay men who may be just metres away, making use of their …