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To browse Academia. As an out gay man who used Grindr as a tool to meet other homosexual men, I often believed that such applications and their innate focus on sex were significantly changing the ways in which gay culture behaved. Had it changed the way gay men presented themselves?
This study looks at elements of gay culture including semiotics, social construction, sexual desire and gender identity and how these have been remediated within digital gay culture in the form of Grindr, which results in a convergence of queer and heteronormative concepts. Concepts, which originated from prolific queer theorists such as Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. Online technologies and social networking sites SNS have provided gay men with new spaces for participation, interaction and connection with other gay men.
Geo-location based dating applications such as Grindr offer the opportunity to create queer cyberspace in heteronormative environments.
By using semi-structured interviews, I aimed to investigate how gay men who use Grindr construct their online identities and negotiate the circulation of discourses related to race, body aesthetics and masculinity on the application. The results demonstrated that identities are conflicted on Grindr. On the one hand, the group of subjects expressed distinctive individualism compared to other Grindr users, notably in terms of how others portrayed and expressed themselves.
Yet, on the other hand, a certain conformity to the aesthetic norms was observed. Grindr, through its architecture and design, fragmented identities even more by perpetuating a system of labelling and categorisation. Social media programs such as Grindr, a geolocation-based phone dating app allowing gay men to connect with others in their proximity, have redefined how gay men interact.