2/5/2024 0 Comments Grimder gay men moviesDespite the app’s normalization, its function in the lives of queer men must feel fresh and necessary in the lives of queer men in film and TV, and has infiltrated those on-screen lives just as casually as the app itself. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the dating and hook up app used by many in the LGBTQ community has become a little boring, so embedded in everyday life that, not unlike other social platforms, the GPS positioning and data mining that used to be its unique selling point have become ubiquitous and normalized. It’s dull and quotidian, but nonetheless something that augments queer men’s ideas about sex and identity, on-screen and off. GRINDR’S PRESENCE in gay and queer cinema after 2009 is a lot like the abstract notion of gay shame in gay cinema: it’s there even when it’s not there.
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