HINDUSTAN TIMES - Sep 8 - Online matchmaking in India has come a long way since shaadi.com launched in 1996. Tinder, launched in India in 2014, followed by Indian dating apps TrulyMadly (2015) and ekCoffee (2016). The earliest queer dating platform, PlanetRomeo, launched worldwide in 2002. It claims 3M users globally and India comprises 7% of that. Grindr, with 10M users worldwide, recorded a gradual increase from 11k to 69k monthly users between 2011 and 2015 from India. The figures convinced Scruff, an American dating app for men, to enter India in July this year.
by Poorva Joshi
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Summarized by the Courtland Brooks team
As this was summarized from the original article, I would have expected the word 'queer' to be edited out as it is offensive and perpetuates a hateful message.
Posted by: Paulrdallas | Sep 15, 2016 at 09:57 PM
I don't think you understand the term and or its reference in this article. In the Gay community the term "Queer" is used often and describes people in the "Gay" community. My Gay friends throw the word around about each other all the time. In fact there was even a TV show with the word "Queer" in its title (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). It defines a Gay person and in the TV show it was about Gay guys helping straight men become more fashionable and what a great show it was.
This comment clearly shows that there are people that don't understand the word and continue to focus on the outgoing PC aspect of it. So in the end you either understand the word in its context or you grow thicker skin.
Posted by: AdvanDate.com | Sep 18, 2016 at 02:22 PM