It reminds Grindr users to wash their hands with soap and water for 20 seconds, use hand sanitizer while out and about, avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed fingers, and to stay home if you’re not feeling well. Grindr, which is managed out of the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, now posts a warning online of the dangers of COVID-19. Identified themselves as West Hollywood residents were live on BBRTS looking
They are looking for someone to have sex with. However, its members can still use the app to notify other users that Which BBRTS members and some party promoters use to post notices of sex That Is especially evident in the branding of BBRTS, whose letters stand for “bareback real time sex.”ĬOVID-19 epidemic by blocking use of the “Local Parties” section of its site, But in reality, they are tools that gay men (and some transgender people) mostly use to find sexual partners. Some, like Grindr, in recent years have promoted themselves as social networks for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. On Sunset, the annual gathering of leather men and their fans on Sunset Boulevard outside the Eagle, scheduled for March 29, is cancelled (and all previously purchased tickets will be refunded.)īut what about Grindr? And Scruff, and Adam4Adam, and Growlr, and Daddyhunt, and BBRTS? These are websites and apps that gay men use to connect with one another. Los Angeles Leather Contest, scheduled for March 28, at the Globe Theatre, has been postponed. LA Pride, scheduled for June 12-14, is being postponed to a date uncertain. The Palm Springs White Party,one of Southern California’s largest gay party events, attracting thousands, was scheduled for April 24 and now has been postponed to Oct. Hollywood’s gay community – who make up 33% of the city’s population - areīeing forced to embrace the “social distancing” that health experts areĪdvising during the coronavirus pandemic.