Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: gay_community

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Racism and Grindr: how ethnicity filters factor in | British GQ

gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/grindr-racism
For many Black gay men and gay men of colour, the ethnicity filters allow them to find other men and befriend and build a community with them free from othering, fetishisation and white gaze. Many gay men of colour are only invested in romantic relationships with other gay men of colour for this very reason. The ethnicity filters allowed them to curate an experience centred on them for a change. Treating the elimination of the ethnicity filters as a kind of utopian largesse positions...