{"id":13839,"date":"2024-03-24T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/theres-a-gay-bar-in-my-pocket-how-15-years-of-grindr-has-affected-gay-communities-and-dating-culture\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:37:33","slug":"theres-a-gay-bar-in-my-pocket-how-15-years-of-grindr-has-affected-gay-communities-and-dating-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/theres-a-gay-bar-in-my-pocket-how-15-years-of-grindr-has-affected-gay-communities-and-dating-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s a gay bar in my pocket!\u2019: how 15 years of Grindr has affected gay communities and dating culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming to have created the concept of online dating, Grindr has been described as a lifeline for users in some countries but also a \u2018crash course\u2019 in objectification<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of pop culture\u2019s early but most seminal depictions of gay online dating comes from a 1999 episode of Sex and the City. Stanford Blatch, Carrie Bradshaw\u2019s gay friend, played by the late Willie Garson, is seeking advice. He\u2019s been chatting to another man on an online chatroom \u2013 the height of technology at the time \u2013 and wonders whether they should meet up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you know about him?\u201d asks Bradshaw. \u201cWell, his name is bigtool4u\u201d answers Blatch \u2013 cue hysterics from Bradshaw. Fast forward 25 years and although the tools are different, the activity is, arguably, much the same. Instead of online chatrooms, one of the most popular means of gay and bisexual men<strong> <\/strong>around the world connecting with each other is Grindr, which has 13 million monthly active users worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/25\/theres-a-gay-bar-in-my-pocket-how-15-years-of-grindr-has-affected-gay-communities-and-dating-culture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/adc777dd14b23ef667a267bf7ba7ef6c3a435ce3\/0_384_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7ef181fb23f7e0861bcb13b8a35471e0\" title=\"\u2018There\u2019s a gay bar in my pocket!\u2019: how 15 years of Grindr has affected gay communities and dating culture\" \/>Claiming to have created the concept of online dating, Grindr has been described as a lifeline for users in some countries but also a \u2018crash course\u2019 in objectification<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>One of pop culture\u2019s early but most seminal depictions of gay online dating comes from a 1999 episode of Sex and the City. Stanford Blatch, Carrie Bradshaw\u2019s gay friend, played by the late Willie Garson, is seeking advice. He\u2019s been chatting to another man on an online chatroom \u2013 the height of technology at the time \u2013 and wonders whether they should meet up.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you know about him?\u201d asks Bradshaw. \u201cWell, his name is bigtool4u\u201d answers Blatch \u2013 cue hysterics from Bradshaw. Fast forward 25 years and although the tools are different, the activity is, arguably, much the same. Instead of online chatrooms, one of the most popular means of gay and bisexual men around the world connecting with each other is Grindr, which has 13 million monthly active users worldwide.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming to have created the concept of online dating, Grindr has been described as a lifeline for users in some countries but also a \u2018crash course\u2019 in objectification Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast One of pop culture\u2019s early but most seminal depictions of gay online dating comes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/theres-a-gay-bar-in-my-pocket-how-15-years-of-grindr-has-affected-gay-communities-and-dating-culture\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018There\u2019s a gay bar in my pocket!\u2019: how 15 years of Grindr has affected gay communities and dating culture<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}