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Grindr expands into healthcare with $250million acquisition of online PrEP clinic

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LGBTQ+ app Grindr is moving beyond dating and expanding into healthcare with a $250million acquisition of PurposeMed, the parent company of HIV prevention telehealth provider Freddie. Queer News. Straight Up. The LGBTQ+ stories you don’t want to miss, delivered to your inbox daily. “Starting today, Grindr users in the US and Canada can choose to access free or low cost PrEP care through the Grindr app,” the app announced on its website. “We’re making this possible in partnership with Freddie, a physician-led telehealth and pharmacy platform that Grindr today announced an agreement to acquire.” “Through Grindr’s Health center, users can now connect with […]

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TikTok Settles Alabama’s Child Harm Suit For $100M

Reuters reports: Alabama said on Friday it had reached a settlement with TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, that requires the social media platform to impose new usage limits and enhanced age-verification measures for users in the state, resolving claims that the platform endangered children and misled consumers about its safety. The agreement, which came days before a scheduled trial, calls for TikTok to implement changes for teenagers in Alabama including a two-hour daily time limit, pauses after 15 minutes of use and stricter age checks. TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million under the settlement, but the state’s […]

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Meta had to be shamed into restoring queer club pages on Facebook and Instagram

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A months-long struggle by queer nightclubs across Los Angeles — as well as one historic venue in San Francisco — to regain access to Meta’s social media platforms is finally over, according to the Los Angeles Times. But critical questions remain unanswered.  Like, why did the powers that control pages on Facebook and Instagram take down the pages of Club Cobra, Club Chico, Catch One, Club Tempo, The Stud and that of an L.A. promoter of a transgender-focused club night in the first place? Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox […]

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BOYCOTT: Elon Musk is pushing millions into dishonest, anti-trans midterm ads

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America PAC, the super PAC backed by Elon Musk, is set to spend over $100 million in an effort to help Republicans win in the midterms. So far, that spending budget seems to be going almost exclusively towards anti-trans ads that push scaremongering lies about trans people, misinformation about Democratic candidates, and are (in some cases) likely AI-generated. “Elon Musk is scapegoating LGBTQ+ Americans to distract voters from the cuts he made and the chaos he has caused,” Ramiro Sarmiento, the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. “Trans people aren’t the reason cancer research has […]

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Female-only app Giggle For Girls loses appeal in trans discrimination case

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The High Court of Australia has blocked Giggle for Girls app founder Sall Grover from challenging the landmark ruling that found excluding a transgender womanfrom her app was gender identity discrimination. After years of back-and-forth court appeals, this landmark case (dubbed Tickle v Giggle) has finally come to an end. Giggle for Girls was marketed as a female-only space. The app allowed women to find roommates, engage in freelance work, find friendship groups and more. The discrimination case brought by trans woman Roxanne Tickle was against Giggle for Girls and its founder, Sall Grover. Grover’s Wikipedia page describes her as a “self-identified trans-exclusionary radical feminist”. […]

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Musk Loses Bid To Block MN Law Against AI Child Porn

Politico reports: A federal judge Friday refused to block a Minnesota law prohibiting the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images that’s being challenged by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, SpaceXAI. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank said the company, formerly known as xAI, waited too long in making its last-minute request to temporarily block the law while its broader legal challenge plays out. SpaceXAI waited three months to file its lawsuit, which came three days before the law took effect on Aug. 1. SpaceXAI operates the social media platform X and the AI tool Grok. The judge said the state’s interests outweigh […]

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Grindr to pay out £26million settlement in lawsuit over sharing HIV status info

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Grindr has agreed to pay a £26million settlement in a UK lawsuit brought by thousands of users who allege the app shared highly sensitive personal data, including their HIV status, with advertising companies. The settlement, reports The Guardian, ends a two-year legal battle after Austen Hays filed a claim at the High Court of England and Wales in April 2024 on behalf of Grindr users, alleging breaching privacy laws during a period of time up to the start of 2020. Austen Hays represented 12,000 people in the case, who will receive an average compensation of £2,167 each if the settlement is distributed equally. Grindr said […]

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The ‘CEO of Everything Gay’ on How He Manages 68 Businesses and 6 Boyfriends

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Tristan Schukraft started his first business when he was 21, selling Razor scooters out of his pickup truck to help finance his idea for an e-ticketing platform for the airline industry. Now, he boasts a portfolio of 68 businesses, which he says have led him to become a “billionaire.” Schukraft has become widely known as the “CEO of Everything Gay.” He is the CEO of MISTR, a major LGBTQ telehealth platform expanding access to PrEP and STI testing, and he owns Tryst Hospitality, a family of luxury gay hotels with destinations in iconic LGBTQ destinations like San Juan and Puerto Vallarta. And last […]

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Gay Hookup Culture and the Internet: A History from 1994 Until Now

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Before the internet went mainstream in 1994, gay men looking for their next hookup would cruise in parks, rest stops and bathhouses. For more meaningful connection, they’d use phone lines, send letters and even place ads in the newspaper. But over the last 32 years, the internet has transformed cruising and hookup culture. Websites, chat rooms and apps now dominate, with the online gay hookup and dating industry valued at $1.5 billion as of 2024. Here, we will highlight the impact 20 notable sites and apps have had on gay cruising culture. 1994 Mark Elderkin and his husband, Jeff Bennett, found Gay.com. A few years later, […]

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Meta Ordered To Pay $942M In New Mexico Lawsuit

The Wall Street Journal reports: A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and limit the time young people in the state can spend on its apps, significantly increasing the cost of the landmark child safety verdict against the Facebook and Instagram parent. The judge said Thursday that Meta must create a new $567 million abatement fund in addition to paying $375 million in civil penalties that a jury previously ordered. The company must also enact certain safety features such as limiting the amount of time underage users in the state spend on Facebook and Instagram, […]

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