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Don’t even waste your time trying to compete with her: Beyoncé is 2023’s Mother of the Year. Grindr surveyed more than 10,000 queer people for their yearly “Unwrapped Report,” which detailed the app’s users’ opinions on key pop culture moments — and Rolling Stone can exclusively share what the gays had to say about music in 2023. When asked to choose their Mother of the Year, the Renaissance superstar landed at No. 1. Following closely behind were Taylor Swift in second place, Dolly Parton in third, Kylie Minogue…

Thabsie Mabezane, a transgender woman and LGBT+ activist in South Africa, was aware of personal safety when she met a man on the dating app Tinder earlier this year.She told him that she preferred to meet up in a public space instead of at his home. But as she waited at their meeting point in Johannesburg an unregistered car pulled up and a man with a gun got out and coerced her into the vehicle.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and…

“I wasn’t able to go outside anywhere alone,” Ana says. “I had so much anxiety that when I went outside to do errands, I lost consciousness twice. That’s when I realized I was very sick.”Ana began working for LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr when she was in her early twenties, one of hundreds of Hondurans hired by US-headquartered outsourcing company PartnerHero to work on the account. Her team was based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second city, where they handled tasks ranging from the mundane—tech support emails and billing…

Match Group, the company that’s mostly known for gobbling up some of the most popular apps in the dating market, announced Thursday it’s now promoting its own app called Archer. Rather than another Tinder clone, Archer is specifically geared for gay, bisexual, and queer men. More than that, devs are hoping that users can more easily find love if they’re bombarded with images of dozens of local singles at a time.Meta's Apparent Firing GoofCompared to the Tinder-esque Grindr, Archer is less focused on swipes and more on…

Photo: Peter Macdiarmid / Staff (Getty Images)In a witch hunt to out gay priests, a conservative Catholic nonprofit in Denver has poured $4 million into buying data it claims is primarily sourced from Grindr and other gay dating apps, according to the Washington Post.The group, Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal, claims to have purchased location and usage data from apps including Grindr as well as Growlr, Scruff, Jack’da and even OkCupid from 2018 to 2021. Cross-referencing that information with church residences…

Grindr LLC plans to further monetize its services, review subscription prices and beef up its finance team once the dating-app operator joins the public markets via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company on Friday. Los Angeles-based Grindr, which specializes in connecting gay, bi, trans and queer users, will combine with blank-check company Tiga Acquisition Corp. The transaction, valued at $2.1 billion, is expected to provide Grindr with roughly $384 million in proceeds, which will…

Grindr and Motto founder Joel Simkhai, pictured with himself. Photo: Jordan Strauss (AP)Joel Simkhai revolutionized gay dating. Now he’s trying to do it again by cutting against the culture created by his success.Simkhai founded Grindr in 2009, two years after the first iPhone was unveiled. Details magazine memorably introduced the app with the headline, “Is That a Gay Bar in Your Pocket?” Grindr, which shows its queer users who’s closest to them and how recently they’ve been online, became synonymous with gay hookup…

Billy Eichner has revealed that he was kicked off of Tinder again last year, bringing his strike count up to two. During a 2019 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the openly-gay 43-year-old actor and comedian explained that he had been removed from the dating app after the company thought he was a catfish pretending to be Eichner. After which, the company sent him a care package apology, which included a T-shirt and mugs with “World’s Hottest Single” and “Happy Valentine’s Day... to Me” printed on them. Now, in a new…

A large number of websites went down early Tuesday, including many tied to Cloudflare, a web security company that provides services like protection against DDoS attacks. Websites and apps including Discord, Medium, Coinbase, Grindr, and DoorDash all appeared to be delivering errors early Tuesday, according to Down…Read more... A large number of websites went down early Tuesday, including many tied to Cloudflare, a web security company that provides services like protection against DDoS attacks. Websites and apps…

The precise movements of millions of users of the gay-dating app Grindr were collected from a digital advertising network and made available for sale, according to people familiar with the matter.The information was available for sale since at least 2017, and historical data may still be obtainable, the people said. Grindr two years ago cut off the flow of location data to any ad networks, ending the possibility of such data collection today, the company said. The commercial availability of the personal information, which…