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October 2, 2014 Marina Galperina

Are you in Berlin and on Grindr? Want to go make pancakes, trim nails or play chess with artist Dries Verhoeven inside a glass-walled container in a Berlin Kreuzberg square? Potentially lucky participants are being solicited right now by the Dutch artist via the gay hook-up app. He says, “we’ll shave one another or read to one […]

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September 2, 2014 Rhett Jones

William Saponaro Jr., a 52-year-old man from New Jersey, is suing Grindr after he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy he met through the hook-up app for gay men. Saponaro states that he “reasonably believed [the minor] was 18 years or older.” While no information is available on the quality of Saponaro’s eyesight, he apparently can read the small text in […]

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March 31, 2014 Andy Cush

Smart: Phil Prendergast, a member of the European Parliament from Ireland, is doing campaign advertisements on Grindr. Prendergast is angling to become president of the Parliament’s LGBT Intergroup, so advertising on gay dating app makes good sense. Here’s what she has to say about her candidacy: I have been one of the loudest voices in the […]

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August 22, 2013 Marina Galperina

This is not what a feminist artist looks like. I am not in a habit of trashing a show before I see it, so I won’t trash the 2-day “EXPLICIT” exhibit at Morgan Avenue Underground in Bushwick this weekend. After reading this Vice profile however, it’s clear that there is an ethical and intellectual fail in […]

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April 10, 2013 Marina Galperina

You know what this is. You know. Here’s a beautiful little Tumblr tribute to that special social network that makes some of your friends say “BRB!” and return 30 minutes later because he found a friend in the building. (True story.) Behold: Grindr Illustrated. Self-explanatory. Hello, boys. […]

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