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Gay Hookup Apps: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
09.22.20
We sort through it so you don’t hold to.
Grindr
“You gay bro?”
“Nah just here to network”
Who’s on it? Lots of people. Grindr is international, and guys exploit it to network and chat as often as they use it to actually facilitate a hang up. At the very least it’s a amazing way to figure out if that guy at the gym is same-sex attracted or not.
Best for? Scoping out the scene in a new town, flirting for weeks with someone you’ll never meet, getting catfished.
Downsides? Upgrading to Grindr Unlimited is a jaw dropping TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE DOLLARS per year, money which could alternatively go towards...I don’t know a plane ticket somewhere cool? Like, 75 separate OnlyFans subscriptions? A very welcome donation to the charity of your choice?
Sniffies
“looking?”
“yeah”
“come over”
Who’s on it? Sniffies is a pretty mixed crowd. DL, bi, married, and curious guys are drawn to Sniffies because it’s easy to be as anonymous as they’d prefer. It’s also easy to find glory holes and cruising locales for a quick hook up. Kinksters and horndogs are
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SCRUFF is the top-rated and most dependable app for homosexual, bi, trans, and queer people to connect with each other.
SCRUFF is an independent, LGBTQ+ owned and operated firm, and we apply the app that we build. We give users a private and secure experience, a warm and diverse people, and more features than any other gay dating app. We’re dedicated to protecting our members’ data and advancing user experience, so you’ll never observe banner ads on SCRUFF, and we won’t sell your data to shady 3rd party companies.
MAKE REAL CONNECTIONS
30+ million users, no spambots
Find exactly the people you like with search and filters
View, Woof, and chat with people from around the world
SCRUFF Match connects you with the people you like
Click "I'm Interested" on a profile and SCRUFF will let you know if there's a mutual attraction
EXPRESS YOURSELF
Share your story with multiple profile pics, rich profiles, private albums, hashtags, and more
Let others know what you’re into with profile details like preferences and safer practices
Comprehensive pronoun and gender identity options lay you in dominion of your identity
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Grindr is the world’s #1 free matchmaking app app serving the LGBTQ community. If you’re gay, bi, trans, queer, or even just curious, Grindr is the best and easiest way to encounter new people for friendships, hookups, dates, and whatever else you’re looking for.
On a trip? Grindr is an indispensable tool for LGBTQ travelers—log in to meet locals and get recommendations for bars, restaurants, events, and more. With Grindr in your pocket, you’ll always be associated to other LGBTQ people around you and have your finger on the pulse of what’s happening.
Ready to acquire started? Creating your profile is straightforward, and you can share as much or little about yourself as you like. Within minutes you’ll be ready to connect, chat, and meet up with people close you.
Grindr is faster and better than ever:
• See people nearby based on your location
• Chat and share secret photos
• Add tags to share your interests
• Search tags to find others based on their interests
• Create confidential albums to participate (and unshare) multiple photos at once
• Filter your find to find what you want
• Celebrity your favorites and block others
• Describe people easily and safely
Looking for even more? Upgra
Back on the Prowl With Sniffies
This post is part of Outward, Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. Read more here.
While it’s hard to express whether the post–COVID vaccine period will bring on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the 1918 pandemic, a quick scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of New York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local queer crowd, the ’20s are entering a complete roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s hit the floor this Pride month, a new hookup website (that’s website, not app) has poised itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.
Sniffies is an upstart gay casual meeting site(NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken back to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a inhabit updated GPS map. The approach cuts out the tedious texting and etiquette now so shared on the traditio