Rhodes Murphy

Outward I’m done letting the stereotype of the tidy, tasteful homosexual get in the way of my messy, unmanicured joy. You know that meme that’s always popping up on gay Instagram, the one about how “If his room looks like this”—this being a dingy, menacing cell with an uncovered mattress on the floor, dirty clothes strewn about, and an overturned lamp in the corner—“you know the dick is gonna be good”? You’d think it would make having a messy living space a badge of honor, but … not for me.

Relationships On Grindr, the sex app, a surprising policy change is bemusing users and cyberlaw hawks alike. On Grindr, these images are no longer so hazy. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Road Trip with Raj /Unsplash. If you’ve logged into Grindr, the sex app, in the past couple of months, you may have noticed the slow but steady influx of a new kind of profile picture popping up alongside all the headless torsos.

Downtime An upstart gay cruising site wants to help guys “reconnect” this hot vax summer. Sniffies This post is part of Outward, Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. Read more here.