Gay Men’s Construction and Management of Identity on Grindr

Jaspal, Rusi

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“…Furthermore, research has shown that gay mobile applications are perceived to constitute a 'safer' sex for avoiding involuntary disclosure of one's sexual orientation, which itself may be associated with homophobia. 27 There were significant differences in engagement in sexual risk-taking behaviours by ethnicity and HIV status. Latino respondents are more likely to frequent gay saunas and to report drug use.…”

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“…Experiences of prejudice may also affect the ways in which BME MSM seek sexual encounters with other men; indeed, there was a positive relationship between frequency of racism and sex seeking on mobile applications across all ethnic groups. It has been found that some MSM may perceive greater confidence and self-efficacy in relation to sex seeking and interactions with other men than in offline settings, 27 which may explain the preference for this forum among BME MSM who have experienced racism (including from other MSM). Furthermore, research has shown that gay mobile applications are perceived to constitute a 'safer' sex for avoiding involuntary disclosure of one's sexual orientation, which itself may be associated with homophobia.…”

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HIV knowledge, sexual health and sexual behaviour among Black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men in the UK: a cross-sectional study

Jaspal

Lopes

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Sex. Health

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Background Black and minority ethnic (BME) men who have sex with men (MSM) face a major burden in relation to HIV infection. Using a cross-sectional correlational survey design, the present study explored the relationships between HIV knowledge and reported sexual health and sexual behaviour in this population. Methods: A convenience sample of 538 BME MSM was recruited in London, Leicester and Leeds: 346 (64%) self-identified as South Asian, 88 (16%) self-identified as Latin American, 76 (14%) self-identified as Black, 13 (2%) self-identified as mixed, and 15 (3%) self-identified as other. Results: HIV knowledge was low across the board, and South Asian MSM manifested the lowest scores. Respondents who perceived their HIV risk to be low possessed the least HIV knowledge. There were interethnic differences in the frequency of gay sauna visits, sex-seeking on mobile applications, drug use and attendance at sex parties. Respondents reported a high frequency of racism and discrimination, with Black MSM reporting highest frequency. Conclusions: There is an urgent need to raise awareness of HIV in BME MSM, and a culturally competent approach to HIV awareness-raising in BME MSM is required. These findings shed light on the contexts in which HIV prevention efforts should be targeted to reach specific ethnic groups, as well as some of the potential syndemics that can increase HIV risk or undermine HIV outcomes in BME MSM patients.

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HIV knowledge, sexual health and sexual behaviour among Black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men in the UK: a cross-sectional study

Jaspal

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Jamal³

et al. 2019

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“…My work differs from some recent investigations on hook-up apps which have a strong focus on identity/psychological features and the ways users describe themselves or their strategies of self-presentation (Miller, 2015). Like Jaspal (2016), I also share the view that focusing investigations on the conscious management of identity in the use of hook-up apps is not enough to explain the complex dynamics between vision and desire found therein. I am working within a deconstructionist perspective that puts those aspects in a more complex web of relations that involve not only conscious but also unconscious aspects of desire in the production of identity.…”

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The Persistence of Desire: Gay Men Online and Queer Visuality

Gadelha

2017

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Queer forms of sociality online have been established as a research field for many social studies that contributed to our contemporary comprehension of new geographies of sexualities. Such a task required a cautious review of existent methodologies and conceptual tools, especially when sexuality comes up as an axis of investigation. In this paper I explore the persistence of the category of "desire" for the study of dissident sexualities online. Although a critical approach to desire is present in queer scholarship, my argument relies on implementing theoretical queer and/or feminist formulations of desire. It has been a problematic standard to combine theories on queer desire without reflecting about the field in which such theories may be applied. Desire as a category has also to do with the dismantling of cruising geographies and with the errant aspect inherent to cruising practices. This paper, by discussing theoretically the relationship between "desire", "visualization", and the "digital" points out the disruptive aspect of desire in relation to online ways of seeing and performativity. KeywordsDesire, Digital, Visual, Sexuality, Online dating, Queer, Performativity.Las formas de sociabilización queer en línea, se han establecido como un campo de investigación para muchas investigaciones sociales. Estas han contribuido a nuestra comprensión contemporánea de las nuevas geografías de la sexualidad. Esta tarea ha requerido una cautelosa revisión de las metodologías existentes y de las herramientas conceptuales, sobre todo, cuando la sexualidad surgió como un eje de investigación. En este artículo, exploro la persistencia de la categoría "deseo" para el estudio de las sexualidades disidentes en línea. Aunque una aproximación crítica del deseo está presente en los estudios queer, mi argumento se basa en la implementación de formulaciones teóricas queer e/o feministas sobre el deseo, ya que ha sido una problemática común el combinar teorías sobre el deseo queer sin reflexionar acerca del campo sobre el cual se puede aplicar esta teoría. El deseo, como una categoría, también tiene que ver con el desmantelamiento de las geografías del cruising y con el aspecto errante inherente a esta práctica. Este artículo, al discutir teóricamente la relación entre "deseo", "visualización" y cultura "digital", señala el aspecto perturbador del deseo en relación con las formas de ver en línea y la performatividad. Palabras ClaveDeseo, digital, visual, sexualidad, citas en línea, queer, performatividad. RESUMEN ABSTRACT LA PERSISTENCIA DEL DESEO LOS HOMBRES GAYS ONLINE Y LA VISIBILIDAD QUEER 61The development of digital media has opened new forms of sociality. This has changed our actual perception of time and space, making it possible to connect people from different cultures very quickly and to exchange information. Many spheres of social life are susceptible to the appeal of the digital era, the era of connectedness: to be globalized is to be connected, to be in motion, to trade in new cultural maps, to get in touch with other...

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“…This shift in attention becomes clearer when comparing previous research on Grindr with this article's analysis. If I were to unpack Grindr's homonormativity, I might note how users' profiles frame good gay bodies as sporty and muscular (Enguix & Gómez-Narváez, 2018;Miller, 2018) and produce racist, hegemonically masculine affects (Jaspal, 2017;Penney, 2014). In contrast, I am concerned with how Grindr enacts power not through messages about queerness but by constituting a complex, extractive queer space in the first place.…”

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Discrete and looking (to profit): homoconnectivity on Grindr

Aunspach

2019

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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The queer dating and hookup app Grindr evidences a technological and economic intensification in queer spaces online. The dominant modality of capitalist power is no longer consumerist norms but the collection and analysis of data. Grindr's participation in datafication distributes increased risks upon its queer users and necessitates a renewed politics of queer privacy beyond homonormativity. I name this arrangement of power homoconnectivity and detail four techniques that capitalism deploys to capture and monetize queer social production. Ultimately, this article unpacks how Grindr designs experiences that move users to log into the app while hiding its engagement with multi-sided markets. Oscillating between producing continuous experiences and deploying annoying constraints, platforms like Grindr privatize and monetize user spaces, communities, social production, and lives under the guise of increased connectivity. With the goal of building more just queer worlds, homoconnectivity makes legible new pressure points to push back against the growing ubiquity of capitalist datafication and queer world-taking. *This is not a homophonic flub. On the one hand, the article to come traces how Grindr cracks queer intimacies into "discrete" parts through datafication, and on the other, Grindr places risk upon queer lives and necessitates a new orientation to "discretion," to privacy. Oh! and the phrases "discreet" and "looking" are common refrains on Grindr.

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Gay Men’s Construction and Management of Identity on Grindr

Cited by 71 publications

References 23 publications

HIV knowledge, sexual health and sexual behaviour among Black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men in the UK: a cross-sectional study

HIV knowledge, sexual health and sexual behaviour among Black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men in the UK: a cross-sectional study

The Persistence of Desire: Gay Men Online and Queer Visuality

Discrete and looking (to profit): homoconnectivity on Grindr

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