Meanwhile, the rest of us must try to start considering each other as people, rather than categories. Come back when you’ve accepted that using Grindr and being “straight acting” are fundamentally incompatible.
The only people who would be excluded by this change are those who still believe there is - and frankly, good riddance. There is nothing shameful about being gay, or about gay sex. The app should require verified names, faces and identification. However, even for more established users, a barely functional “This is his address, in case I’m kidnapped!” text to a close friend often has to suffice.
Pandering to closeted men allows shame and bigotry to festerĪs I can attest from my own early experiences, younger users are particularly vulnerable to fake profiles and taking unnecessary risks, having not yet undergone the trial-and-error learning of strategies to avoid them.
