For pretty much as long as the internet has existed, queers have used it to find each other. Long before Tinder normalized dating and hookup apps in our culture, queer people have found creative ways to seek connections online. Today, the team revisits our favorite hookup apps and sites from the years — some of which no longer even exist anymore and some of which technically aren’t even dating sites at all but nonetheless led us to love, sex and, in some cases, marriage! Read all about our favorite queer dating apps and sites of all time and share your own online dating wins and losses in the comments!
14 Queer People Share Their Favorite Dating Apps and Sites of All Time
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I’m not actively dating atm but my past experience with apps has not been great. I strongly relate to Valerie and I second Nic – everyone who has used Instagram for dating, please give pointers!
Yes, IG pointers for newbies wanting to flirt/date through Instagram would be lovely!
I feel like the glory days of dating apps being useful where in like 2015-2018. Or maybe I was just living in a city with a better dating culture. But there was this app Happn that was really good but never got big in the States. It was based around proximity and it would just fail miserably with all the car culture.
In the early 2000s there was a really clunky local website in Vancouver called Superdyke that I always checked but was too cautious to actually meet anyone from. Loved looking at the w4w I saw you posts on Craigslist but only got the nerve to post once, right before I met my current partner of 16 years
they should bring back Scissr. the world wasn’t ready but now it is 😤
you’re so right for this
Isn’t that what wing ma’am is suppose to be?