Grindr’s HIV data-sharing has betrayed the LGBTQ world

The gay dating app has responsibilities to the communities it serves. These do not include passing intimate information to third parties

Gay communities have an HIV problem – and I don’t mean those gay people with HIV. It is tragic how minorities who have suffered stigma and discrimination in the past replicate these forms of oppression against their own. Persistent myths lead to prejudice against gay and bisexual men living with HIV. But when those on effective treatment have undetectable levels of the virus, they cannot, according to recent research, pass it on.

Even so, every gay person knows what it is like to come out and risk rejection. Tragically, those who come out as HIV-positive can face isolation and discrimination from their own. As well as endemic sexism, transphobia, racism, anti-disabled prejudice – the full shebang, frankly – we LGBTQ people need to work so much harder at showing solidarity with each other.

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