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Church Sign Of The Day

(Tipped by JMG reader Israel)

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Hook-Up Site For Gay Priests?

The Italian press has supposedly uncovered a hook-up site for gay priests.  The Catholic website Gloria is outraged. The Homo Sensitive Priestly Society — Venerabilis in English — claims to be a loose association of gay and homophile Catholic priests. The website serves as a gay dating site, so that aberrosexual priests can find contact among themselves, or homosexual laity …

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Boston Cops Warn Of Hook-Up Crimes

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 …

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Hey Guys

Manhunt reports that “Hey Guys” is the most popular profile header in all but one state. That one exception is Connecticut, where “Looking For A Top” is most frequently used. Hit the link for a listing of popular headlines in every state. (Via Boy Culture)

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New App: Bang Your Facebook Friends

Dan Savage call this “another attempt at Grindr for straights.” By definition the guys a woman meets through Bang With Friends aren’t strangers. These are guys that the women on the site know. (In theory at least—some people are Facebook friends with strangers.) And while a woman can certainly be victimized, infected, sexually assaulted, or knocked up by a guy …

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Wanna Date A Gay Cop?

Gothamist tips us to Meet Single Police Officers, a new hook-up/dating site for cops and their admirers. I just checked and yes, the site includes gay profiles.  Whether a member is an actual cop is apparently not vetted, but some profiles include in-uniform images.

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JSpot: The Straight Jewish Grindr

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 …

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Billboard Of The Day

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Manhunt Promotes Truvada

The hook-up site Manhunt today announced that they will begin promoting the usage of Truvada, which was recently approved by the FDA as a daily HIV preventive for high-risk populations. Via press release: Manhunt has partnered with Gladstone Institutes’ Dr. Robert Grant and The Fenway Institute to assure that the information conveyed is accurate and consistent with peer-reviewed published science. …

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Dating For Conservatives

Here’s their about notice: At RedStateDate.com, our mission is to connect you to like minded individuals in your area who share your similar, unique political interests. This is a complex and challenging task. Talking politics in the workplace, and even in some social situations can be taboo. Yet, shared political values is oftentimes a defining criteria in what we are …

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The Bear State Of The Union

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Bindr

(Via JMG reader Michael)

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Yenta: The Grindr For Jews

What’s your schtick?

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New Dating Site For Poz Dudes

Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth is the co-founder of a new site for HIV+ men. He tells Frontiers Magazine: Let’s not sugarcoat it too much. It’s a social networking site but it’s mainly a dating and hook-up site. It’s a hub to chat and meet with other HIV-positive men. It’s different from all of the other sites because we are …

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Hong Kong AIDS Group Blames Grindr

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 …

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Billboard Of The Day

The dating website exclusively for “beautiful people” has a launched a series of billboards devoted to same-sex marriage. The company is claiming that the above billboard featuring Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann look-a-likes has been banned in Tampa, the host city for the Republican convention. “This is a national campaign championing equal rights for the LGBT community and pledging support …

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Colorado Shooter’s Hook-Up Page?

The FBI is investigating whether the above is the Adult Friend Finder hook-up page for Colorado’s alleged gunman, James Holmes. Note the chilling quote, “Will you visit me in prison?”

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SF Man Missing After Cell Phone Hook-Up

His mother has launched a webpage: This is my son, Evan Flanary, 22, 6ft 1, 160 lbs, blonde/blue wearing blue jeans and gray hoody. Last seen on foot in the mission district in San Francisco on June 19 2012 meeting a stranger from a social phone app contact. This is not like him to disappear. He has no money and …

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Established Men

Copyranter wonders: “1. Because if she doesn’t study, she’ll end up with a fat bald rich guy—like we feature on our site? 2. Because if she doesn’t study, she won’t end up with a fat bald rich guy—like we feature on our site?”

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Grindr Wins Tech Award

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)

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