Alex Kofi Donkor, head of local activist group LGBT+ Rights Ghana, decided to fight back last year on Twitter and Facebook with the Ghana Gay Blackmail List, which exposes “notorious persons who steal, abuse & blackmail gay men”.
Norway: Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says
Awareness of U=U increasing, but HIV-negative MSM still less likely to believe in its accuracy
Two recent US studies find growing awareness and acceptability of the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) message among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, a misunderstanding of transmission risk remains, with many still believing that HIV-positive partners can transmit the virus sexually, despite having an undetectable viral load.
Using Grindr Impacts Sexual Risk Behavior
Ireland: Online scam targeting Irish gay men through Grindr
Canada: Weight stigma affects gay men on dating apps
Our findings suggest Grindr’s relationship with body image is embedded in a complex web of causation that reflects the situated and emergent interactions between technology, user and environment. As such, efforts to minimize the role information technologies play in maintaining sexual orientation-based disparities in body image disorders must be equally adaptive.