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Ted Sterchi Paints Portraits of Grindr Users

Ted Sterchi, a London-based web developer and the guy behind Grindr Illustrated, started painting some of the inanimate faces he saw on Grindr in an attempt to soften the otherwise hard, sexually aggressive profile pictures he was confronted with every time he logged into the app. Full story

Should We Panic About the Strain of Deadly Meningitis Hitting the Gay Community?

This year, four men have come down with meningitis in New York City, bringing the number of infections to 22 and the death toll to seven since 2010, and similar cases have appeared in West Hollywood, California. How worried should we be? Full story

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Why Are All These Gays Taking Grindr Photos at a Holocaust Memorial?

Grindr Remembers is a website devoted to cataloging all of the Grindr profile pictures taken at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. When the internet realized this site existed a few days ago it exploded with rage, so I contacted the site's creators to see what… Full story

Helping the Malaysian Government Find Gays with Grindr

The Malaysian government has a throbbing, vein-popping hard-on for gay guys. In fact, they're so concerned about the homosexual population's "rampant" activities that the education minister has just published a handy guide on how to "spot a gay." Full story

How Grindr Can Get You Everything You Need, Except Butt Sex

Grindr is great for getting your penis some butt, but there's more to life than getting laid (well, kinda). There is also stuff! And drugs! And favors! All of these things are possible to score on Grindr if you know a few simple tricks. Here are some good ones. Full story

Lies Everyone Tells on Dating Sites

The only way your penis is 6.5 inches is if you measure from the top of your chocolate starfish, through the entire taint, over the balls, up the shaft, and an inch past the tip. Full story