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Tinder India Will Now Let Users to Select Their Sexual Orientation

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In a bid to be more inclusive of the Diverse community of India, Tinder will now allow users to select their sexual orientation on the app, and even display it on their profile.

There is good news for those who are single, but not straight. In a major step towards inclusivity, dating app Tinder has now started allowing users in some countries, including India, to share more information about their sexual orientation on their profile - whether they are heterosexual, gay, queer, asexual or bisexual.

To add more information about sexual orientation on Tinder, users can simply visit "Edit Info" within the app. After tapping "Orientation," they will be able to handpick up to three terms that they feel foremost describe their sexual orientation. From there, users can also select whether to display their sexual orientation on their profile.

The update is in response to user feedback as skillfully as a study conducted by the app, which found that the majority of lesbian, gay, double attraction, and transgender plus other (LGBTQ+) respondents in India were interested in more options or easier ways to

5 dating apps LGBTQ+ collective members can use in India 

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India's LGBTQ+ community has been forced to remain underground for a long day, with law enforcement previously targeting "homosexual gangs" and pressing charges against them under the now-repealed IPC Section 377. Despite the decriminalization of homosexuality, the community still faces difficulties, especially in dating. While cruising in hideouts is not safe (or necessary anymore), here are five dating apps that lgbtq+ members can use.

Grindr: Mainly for cisgender gender non-conforming men and trans-people

Undoubtedly the most popular app of its kind, Grindr is a dating app tailored for queer men. The app has also been in use among members of the trans people. Launched in 2009, Grindr is a geo-location-based app that allows users to scroll through a grid of profiles of other users around them. However, the app is mainly used for hook-ups. Be warned.

Romeo: Primarily for GBTQ men

Romeo, better famous by its former entitle PlanetRomeo or the local nickname "PR," continues to be a relevant internet dating platform for the collective, despite its declining popularity. Launched in 2002, t

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Grindr is the world’s no.#1 free digital dating app serving the LGBTQ community. If you’re gay, bi, trans, queer, or even just curious, Grindr is the best and easiest way to face new people for friendships, hookups, dates, and whatever else you’re looking for.

On a trip? Grindr is an indispensable tool for LGBTQ travellers—log in to meet locals and get recommendations for bars, restaurants, events, and more. With Grindr in your pocket, you’ll always be joint to other LGBTQ people around you and have your finger on the pulse of what’s happening.

Ready to earn started? Creating your profile is effortless, and you can share as much or little about yourself as you like. Within minutes you’ll be ready to connect, chat, and meet up with people nearby you.

Grindr is faster and better than ever:

• See people around you based on your location
• Chat and give private photos
• Attach tags to contribute your interests
• Find tags to uncover others based on their interests
• Construct private albums to share (and unshare) multiple photos at once
• Filter your search to uncover what you want
• Star your favourites and block others
• Report people easily and safely

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In India, dating apps are helping the LGBTQ collective find love

Mandar*, 24, a Mumbai-based MBA student, met his boyfriend on Grindr — a dating app for gay men — in 2014. They similar each other’s profiles and, after a few dates, began seeing each other. An unusual story for Grindr. “I signed up in 2011. I was told it was futile to look for a long-term partner, as users look for sexual partners. Fortunately, I met someone who shared the equal outlook,” he says. They’ve been together for the last year-and-a-half.

Online matchmaking in India has arrive a long way since shaadi.com released in 1996. American dating app, Tinder, launched in India in 2014, followed by Indian dating apps, such as TrulyMadly (2015) and ekCoffee (2016), sparking an online dating culture. But while the straight population woke up to this revolution only in the last year or so, the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Double attraction, Trans and Queer) people has long embraced online matchmaking. The earliest gay dating platform, PlanetRomeo (PR), launched worldwide in 2002, and continues to be an online community for gay men.

“There is no geo-tracking involved. You can see profiles of men from different countries, an

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“Here goes nothing”, I think to myself as I once again find myself downloading the ever-daunting dating LGBTQIA+ apps that will either be a cause of unparalleled happiness or spiraling doom. Dating is undeniably terrifying. The whole concept of rendezvous strangers and entity vulnerable with them in the hopes that something comes out of that interaction, be that something a hook-up, a short or long term affair or maybe just even a friendship, is overwhelmingly bizarre. But the potential of that “something” maybe happening is in and of itself a truly beautiful experience. 

I constantly joke around with close friends that I am ready for a association. I crave the emotional and physical intimacy that comes with one. My friends, being my most brutal advisors, always say the same thing, “Derek saying you wish a relationship is worthless if you don’t put yourself out there. In order to identify a relationship, you need to skillfully, date.” And running the risk of inflating my friends’ egos, they’re right. The only way to find someone, is by going out to the battlefield we summon a “dating pool” (my body convulsed a bit just thinking abou