Truly, I think this boils down to one thing. The lgbtqia banner is great for politics, and allowing everybody to gain equal rights. Like the equal right to a dating app that actually is my dating pool, and not my political pool. In other words, the lgbtqia banner does not belong in my bedroom.

Also, if you've ever bothered to visit the Grindr app on the Play store, you will find that it is labeled as "Gay dating and Chat" with no mention of lgbtqia anything.

I may be part of the lgbtqia banner, but I am not sexually attracted to anyone but anatomically correct masculine gay men. Again, that banner is strictly a political tool.

Let’s get something straight about this so-called 'discrimination' nonsense. I pay for Grindr to connect with other men—not women, not trans individuals, not anything else. If you can’t grasp the difference between personal preference and actual discrimination, you’re either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid.
Saying I don’t want to see certain profiles on an app I pay for isn’t discrimination; it’s demanding that the service I’m paying for delivers what I signed up for. The idea that I should be forced to see profiles that don’t match my interests is beyond asinine. If you can’t tell the difference between someone expressing a preference and actively trying to harm a group of people, then you’re the one with the problem.
If Grindr wants to be all-inclusive, fine, but don’t tell me that not wanting to see profiles that don’t interest me is somehow wrong. It’s my money, my choice, and I expect the service to respect that

Grindr I'd creating many of these itself

100% agree!

100%
Women turn me off, and those searching for gay and bi men are toxic.

Just as a side note to this, Squirt have many Bi guys, that's fine, but they put up videos showing sex with women. If they want to see MF porn there are many thousands of sites where they can go for that rather than turn gay guy's stomachs. I think this is what's at the bottom of all this anyway. Grindr is/was a unique space for gay MEN to meet and it's sold on that premise. Just a thought ;)

They could make an app exclusively for female profiles e those who want to date them

i would deactivate my account if female profiles arent allowed

The blatant discrimination is abhorrent. And to the one claiming that connecting with nothing but gay males leads to getting flagged for breaking community guidelines... I really do wonder if that was your own experience from having or making incendiary comments about certain groups in our community that you either are well aware of or are woefully unaware of your discriminatory nature.

Straight and bisexual men should be allowed as long as they are looking for men

Look- trans have invaded EVERY LGB space, plus you have your own spaces just for trans—- yet ya whine when we want a place to be left alone. FaFo predo

All due respect. It is hookups app honestly

Hey Mate, I clearly remember seeing Grindr years ago and it said

"gay hookup and dating app in 2009" $2.99 pm premium.

Lets not forget it is a software company..
So changing bio from #X of words halved & changed to #X of letters to discribe yourself.

Reduced basic features e.g. who viewed you and make it premium,

Grindr freezer when it detects a competitor app open simultaneously e.g. Scruff
No multitasking
I can go on.

Grindr required millions more profiles before it could sell for its recent sale $608 Million.

Plus receiving fines for selling + Data and user information in ads costing them 11.7 million right before the sale.

The all inclusive is absolute lie as Grindr does not do anything to protect its male users. E.g. ability to filter out female and Trans for obvious reasons.

Gay men are violating community guidelines because they mention only, that is gay phobic.
However trans only in bio's etc are acceptable.

My point is Grindr is here to make money like all great entrepreneurs.

Calab with someone and design your own perfect version ?

With a clarification that no the app is not only for sex, agreed

This app was in fact started as an app for gay males, with no consideration for other demographics. However, Grindr has gotten money hungry and is now willing to open up the user base. They are hiding behind the idea of inclusivity, and are now actively punishing the original user base that allowed their app to flourish in the first place.

If you make any comments in your profile, that you are attracted to only males, your account will be flagged as breaking community standards. If you make any comments in your profile, that you are unwilling to communicate with anyone who isn't male, your account will be flagged as breaking community standards.

Basically as a gay male, if I try to connect with nothing but gay men, Grindr will flag me as breaking community standards.

I'm sorry, I'm a part of the gay male community, I am not a part of the trans or female communities. Given the fact that the purpose of this app, is really just to find sex (don't be a prude, don't beat around the bush) , it absolutely makes no sense for these two communities to be forced to blend. This isn't the place for that, this is one of the few places where segregation is okay.

Just because the world at Large is opening up to trans, doesn't mean that we are going to start seeing trans men in public male locker rooms. Planet fitness isn't going to suddenly allow it. It's within the same logic, that this isn't the place to blend the locker room...

Bruce, grow up

And Brendan that may be but look at what the description was when it started it was not that it's evolved into that which is absolutely insane because now I'm paying for memberships for a whole bunch of other people that aren't even in my demographic that I'm fighting attractive are now in my groups of people that I'm paying to see that's ridiculous I'm not saying that we all can't come together at somebody's but not for dating we have nothing in common when it comes to dating nothing and it is ultimately what this is is it not

I couldn't agree more. Again this is a gay man site there's plenty of spots for females plenty plenty but there are three for gay men so let's leave it alone please

I have no idea why women are on the app. I've seen one woman post pictures with her kids as well. It was inappropriate and creepy. And there should be a better way to filter out trans/crossdressers as well. This was originally designed as a male only app.

If you actually read the app description, the first sentence includes trans and queer people