I am beginning to use Adam4adam because they understand that attraction is inherent and not anything discriminatory. They have lots of free choices.

I'm not paying over $100.00 again tell ethnicity filter is back I'm pissed off grinder is not worth a shit with out it

Filtering based on your attraction to a particular ethnicity is no more discrimination than still allowing a filtering by age, weight, body type, etc. Bring back the ethnicity filter. It’s not a hate crime to be more attracted to particular races. We pay for this app and should be able to personalize to our own attractions.

Add it back ASAP

I totally agree with the comment posted. Bring ethnicity filter back!!

It was racist in itself to remove the filter. Knowing jolly well that once you are in a white area you cannot find your own as a minority, while the majority white can find what they want but Grindr got on the back of the timing blm activity. To become more racist while suggesting it was to become more woke and correct

Please add Ethnicity to My Type Search criteria. I preder certain types of Ethnicity not all. Thank you

truth while I've hooked up with someone from every race at one point or another i often do seek out specifically cute Asians they are my kryptonite lol. other times i may seek out top black men. depends on my mood. if im in mood for a more wild personality i often seek out latinos. ironically only race I'd never specifically searched was white cause easy to find in my area. i have specific types i prefer in different moods this isn't just race but also positions and ages may change based on what I'm seeking at the time. its not racist to be more attracted to 1 race more than others especially when its not your own race lol. i love asians more than anyone else. I'm mixed native and latino raised in asopted white family. i have dated 3 black men too though and a few latino & mixed latinos too. i just happen to have a heightened attraction to Asian and latino boys more than the others. lets be real asians are some the most beautiful people on the planet its hard not to see that beauty and feel more intensely attracted for me. doesnt mean i reject anyone based on race just means i have added interest and attraction to Asian guys. which is probably good since they face far too much ignorance in american gay culture.

As a Black man, living in a predominantly white area. It’s very hard to find other men of color since you removed the filter.

Please add it back

This is never going to change. Thousands and thousands of comments here and everywhere in these forums and nothing gets done or changes. Grindr is so busy policing gender and race, I found a guy I know who is poz, profile says neg he’s looking to swap loads. Reported him twice and nothing done. Everyone concerned about vaccines. I’m very turned off and disillusioned by grindr.

Yessss I want to search for Asians, a d I want that option, absolutely

@Eventide & @JC. Stop being defensive. Stop taking this personally. Stop invalidating my experience. I'm merely expressing my personal experience at online dating. Regardless, the most important goal for all of us is that we want the race filter feature back for various reasons. Let's all focus on that pain point. There is no need to attack any individuals here. Thx

True!!!!! This was so stupid.

@anonymous(self identifying Asian dude), Your ignorance is astounding! To equate the grindr filter to discrimination and racism detracts from the experience of actual victims.

Maybe we should all go on blind dates. Now there's an idea for an app.

I agree with @eventide --nicely put, and I don't feel the need to labor this further; after all, a degree of rational though is necessary for such a discussion, and yet apparently in short supply.

I will say though, @anonymous, you seem remarkably unaware of your own bias and prejudice.

Speaking of hypocrisy; Grindr establishment !! we cannot hear you!!! ??? Or are you content to pit mano a mano.

You lurk ever so cowardly in the shadows, lacking in moral fortitude (and cojones) to step forward, and either defend your position or acknowledge the err of your ways.

Do You Have The Courage? I think not. Yet I remain hopeful !!

Come on folks, we’re talking about Grindr here. Grindr, a fucked up pos app that we choose to use to find male companionship or maybe a quick release. Unfortunately, most men of like mind, also use Grindr. I would use an alternative app if it existed! I stopped paying for this pos app and recommend everyone stop paying.

@Anonymous You say this as if only gay men discriminate because we have a preference. You also act like this preference is ONLY from a place of racism. None of this is true whatsoever. That'd be like saying you weren't born gay, it was just a product of your environment. Which again would make no sense with gay people that were around when it was pretty much a death sentence.

Your sexual preference is an amalgamation of many different variables. There's DNA, environment, previous history, and so on. We already know that there's predispositions as well and we're not sure where they come from exactly. Just because you're predisposed to liking a certain race sexually more than others doesn't mean you're racist. There's people that are not attracted to overweight people whatsoever, does that make them a "fat shamer?" There's people that are attracted to only their age or younger, does that make them ageist? As a gay man, are you sexist because you don't get attracted to women?

If you say yes to any of those questions, you have issues you need to work through, not everyone else. There's nothing negative happening here in any instance. I'm not attracted to a fat person, but I can still communicate with them, be friends with them, etc. I'm not attracted to women, but I can still be friends with them. If I was a racist I'd have to hate other races. If I was sexist I'd have to hate a gender. Neither of these things applies to just sexual preference.

If you would say they do apply, then you must be a sexist pig because you're a gay man. How dare you not like women too!

It makes no sense, does it?

Also, it's interesting that you say you've never felt bad about yourself until it was other gay men that did it. So apparently you're not affected by other people being racist, but when a gay man is racist suddenly it's a different story? That shows more issue with you than anything. You also mention your skin color and that's not what's the topic here. I never really see anyone's skin color, that doesn't matter to me, but there are other Asian aspects like the eyes shape, eyelids, their hair type, etc. Each race has many different aspects than just skin color, and it's people like you that generalize it all into just skin color that create issues where there aren't any. You see "racist" as just skin color.. which is racist itself since you're not seeing the races for everything they are.

In the end, it's you, and people like you, that are the problem. You create an issue and act like it's suddenly "racist" because you know by throwing that card around you get attention lately. Whether you like it or not, people will always have predispositions to other people. Haven't you ever met someone that you just already know you won't like? You know you have and it could have been any combination of things you don't like.

(I'm the original poster responding to the commenters)

Gay men should own up to the fact that most of you discriminate. That may sound counterintuitive since most would think we are accepting of others due to our struggles. I find the opposite is true.

We have internalized that white attributes are attractive because we've grown up saturated in that message. So when you say that race is a "preference," stop and think from where that preference is coming? There are many types (weight, height, age, build, sexuality, etc.) within each race group. That's why I'd distinguish those "preferences" in separate categories.

As an Asian gay man, I have never felt shitty about myself until I experienced discrimination from other gay men. I appreciate Grindr's efforts to curb the rampant racism on their app by taking down the race filter to be more inclusive. However, that causes another friction. I don't want to deal with those who aren't interested in me due to my race. By allowing these ignorant bigots to filter me out in their search, I can save time and connect with those who see me beyond my skin color. Quite frankly, I'm open to all races so the race filter isn't a requirement, but I don't want to waste time scrolling through the racist bigots.

I welcome any constructive comments. Thanks!

You can just ignore that filter if you think it is racism. But you should deprive others choice.

The guy says it is a preference lol. You don't have preference? Then why don't you go for girls? It is about interpretation. Everything could be racism or sexism , it is only based on how you interpret.

@eventide you shouldn't use gay app then. You filtered straight guys from your world. What a racist :p