Great news! They have been preying on a very vulnerable community.
There are plenty of soft barriers to progress for gay men.
This is what I've seen cited as a reason multiple times. I have no reference to point to, maybe someone else does?
Are there published stats you're referencing?
But perhaps the same reluctance to acknowledge those who seek homosexual relationships is present in people who call themselves gay, they won't acknowledge people as bi? Which seems like hypocritical bias against people whose behaviours are bisexual.
Maybe the behaviour you call out is because people want to have homosexual sex without being 'gay'. By which I mean without making that sexual activity the focus of their identity (I believe it's known as MSM)? It need not have anything particularly to do with societal disapproval.
Who one has sex with, and defining oneself by ones sexuality are quite distinct, as too are sexual desire and desire for relationships.
I'm interested in your response?
Young people sometimes use the word "gay" to express a complex sexuality which doesn't categorise neatly with a label. It's understood that you can be both "gay" and "bi" simultaneously, or indeed you can be a man who has sex with men who is straight.
The only person in this chat who is trying to put strict labels based on behaviour is you (the other commenter only observed some behaviour without labelling), so it seems like you're arguing with yourself?
Anything from getting shunned by family members or religious community, losing out on job offers, to foreigners visiting Norway from a country where their sexual orientation is punishable by law.
Further, there are still people living in the closet here, afraid to come out for fear of being disowned by their family or ostracized by their community. Grindr plays a double-edged sword here, because on the one hand it gives people a chance to meet others, but it also creates a risk of them being outed. --That makes people vulnerable to blackmail.
It's no different to straight people's sex lives, I'm sure many people wouldn't want it to be common knowledge what they're into, and who they've slept with
Besides that, dating apps of any kind should be held to very high data protection standards for the sometimes very delicate matters.
Has everyone just decided that words have no meaning anymore?
Yes. It seems a lovely social media trend. And on instagram many (most?) people don't seem to actually be able to use words, only emoji's. Not sure if that's worse or better.
What if a person lives near racists, people who keep directing hate at hindus because of their (unjustified) hate against muslims? They may feel unsafe if people knew they were hindu no matter the area of the world
It's good that you don't feel threatened, but unfortunately not everyone is so lucky. And we should respect people who want to keep any aspect of their lives private.
As long as people have to fear getting kicked out, disowned, subject to slurs, or otherwise being ostracized by their family, friends, or community for being gay, lesbian, bi, or trans, then yes, the LGBT community remains vulnerable. And once you've been vulnerable like that, it never goes away. There will ALWAYS be a part of you that remembers it and it will affect you for the rest of your life.
That alone is enough vulnerability. The fact that the LGBT community still deals with a lot of verbal and physical assaults as well just makes things worse. And yes, this is still an issue in the UK, in Norway, the US, and other western countries.
This whole case seems to revolve around whether the 'Legitimate Interest' legal basis is valid or not. It was only a matter of time before it was legally challenged.