It’s that terrible time of the year when Republicans gather to select their nominee, spew homophobic and transphobic vitriol, and apparently, see who’s on the grid?
Of course, we’re talking about the Republican National Convention!
And while we kind of expected as much, Gay Twitter X™ was sent into a tizzy on July 15, when @HalfwayPost wrote, “BREAKING: An executive of the gay dating app Grindr says the Republican National Convention is ‘basically Grindr’s Super Bowl.'”
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Move over, Academy Awards and Troye Sivan concerts! We’re sensing a flurry of activity.
OK, so The Halfway Post is admittedly a “halfway true comedy and satire” account and likely did not get a quote from the orange-demon app’s executive team.
Nonetheless, it was enough to get the girls fired up.
Moreover, it seems to be a claim that disgraced gay congressman George Santos was willing to back up.
Despite his reputation as infamous liar.
“When I say it, people think I’m being an *sshole,” Santos wrote in response, before diving into more detail in a video captioned, “👏Come👏out👏the👏closest [sp]👏boys👏!”
In the clip, Santos explained that he’s “openly gay, no qualms about it” — not even about those drag pics, Mr. Santos? — and is a “proud conservative Republican” who met his own husband on Grindr.
“Let me tell you something: just come out the closet boys,” he said. “Come on, it’s fun! You can be gay and conservative … Grindr’s already outing you anyway based on the hits, and guess who’s in town? It’s all you conservatives.”
Leave it to George to fall for satirical clickbait! That being said, there’s definitely some truth to the joke.
According to the now-shuttered MEL Magazine, Grindr activity was 166% higher than normal at the famously anti-gay party’s 2016 convention.
(And if there was any doubt whom were its busiest users, the word “visiting” was apparently “the second-most used word among the profiles Grindr analyzed for [the] study.”)
It’s all a bit ironic, considering J.D. Vance (who just accepted the VP nomination on the Trump ticket) looks really familiar to the LGBTQ+ community — for all the wrong reasons!
Welp, despite his apparent support for Project 2025, we can all agree that Vance certainly bears a resemblance to a “type” on Grindr.
And satire or not, the RNC is certainly home to a large community of confused and closeted LGBTQ+ individuals.
It would be a lot funnier if speakers like ogress Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep. Ron Johnson didn’t spend their entire RNC speeches spreading anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, including transphobia and support for Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation.
Alas, at least we have the satisfaction of knowing we’re right.
Check out more of the funniest reactions to Grindr’s apparent Milwaukee Super Bowl week below.
Cam
Wait, you mean republicans are liars and hypocrites?!? I would be surprised if they hasn’t bee those exact things for decades.
John
JD Vance definitely looks like the Grindr type. I would not be surprised if he’s on it, even with his wife right there.
Jim
I’d love to see the Sniffies map of Milwaukee
winemaker
Will the nastiness, rude comments and juveniletantrums and rants ever stop? I watched all 4 nights of the RNC and never once was a homophobic anti gay word or phrase said, not one. I’m not here to argue the point but since this is America we all have the right to our opinions and beliefs and believe it or not there’re lots of gay Republicans ( they stay silent as they don’t want to argue with ignorant people who aren’t willing to listen to differing beliefs and opinions). Many of them are gay, (surprise, surprise in the words of Gomer Pyle) live in California and have seen the quality of life become more and more intolerable all while the costs of living go to nosebleed heights. They’ve seen how the one time golden state has been destroyed by the liberals and their policies that’re driving the quality of life here into the toilet. I was born and raised in San Francisco, and come from a pre1906 earthquake family who if alive today would say ‘what the hell did you do to let these bozos destroy the one time California jewel that was once clean, affordable on a middle class wage and well run by people with commin sense and fiscal prudence’. and no this isn’t about supporting Triump, this is all about common sense, sometning sorely lacking in many people today.
War On Free Speech
Some people love to be “0ppressed”.
Herman75
The GOP wear their lies and hypocrisy like a badge of honor. “It’s what we do”
dougie
Seriously? Winemaker, do you really think that the GQP is not anti-gay? Which planet do you live on? The Republican Party has passed scores of anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag, and anti-woman legislation across the country over the past 4 years. And you think for a moment that they’re not anti-gay? And, don’t blame California’s decline on “liberals.” Blame on rampant, unrestrained capitalists who will do anything to make a few million bucks. If liberals have any role in that destruction, it’s not having the balls and means to control capitalists’ destruction and exploitation of the state. And, who do you think are the biggest supporters of the Republican Party? Of course, it’s the billionaire capitalists who benefit most from the party’s policies for the past 40 years.
Kangol2
Kloset kweans
to the nth