Discussion
  • Read More
    ClioJ.K. Trotter
    8/12/16 8:13am

    Being gay is not something to be ashamed of and having a mass recall on an article that theoretically, through outside cross referencing, outed people is only teaching young LGBT individuals everywhere that their place still belongs in the closet. Fuck the outcry and fuck The Daily Beast for editing/retracting it.

    Reply
    <
    • Read More
      QJ201Clio
      8/12/16 8:19am

      Did you miss part about athletes from anti gay countries who be persecuted when they get home dipshit?

      Reply
      <
    • Read More
      TinaBelcher'sBunsClio
      8/12/16 8:19am

      Wrong. It teaches straight people that it’s none of your goddamn business to out someone else. It’s their choice to be in the closet and their choice alone. These athletes may come from countries that are nowhere near as LGBT-accepting as the US.

      And the rest of the article was a mess too. “Look at me, a straight white man, pretending to be gay (but I’m straight Hahahaha). Did you know that gay people want to have sex?!?!?”

      Reply
      <
  • Read More
    Declan HackettJ.K. Trotter
    8/12/16 8:10am

    So he starts working with Jordan Sargent on Monday???

    At this stage J.K., you need a stepladder just to see the moral high ground…

    Reply
    <
    • Read More
      LetsgobowlingDeclan Hackett
      8/12/16 8:52am

      Thank you for taking a break from saving kittens from house fires and carrying groceries to elderly ladies’ Buicks to make this profound comment. My soul is nourished by its closeness to your aura of purity.

      Reply
      <
    • Read More
      Aiwaz418Declan Hackett
      8/12/16 9:18am

      How soon they forget.

      Reply
      <
  • Read More
    Dave J.K. Trotter
    8/12/16 8:13am

    So, the Beast should expecting a visit from a vengeful billionaire soon?

    Reply
    <
    • Read More
      alpha69Dave
      8/12/16 8:18am

      I hope so. If that’s what it takes to teach Journalism 101...

      Reply
      <
    • Read More
      Sid and FinancyDave
      8/12/16 8:37am

      Rio Dinero!

      Reply
      <
  • Read More
    CiegoDostaJ.K. Trotter
    8/12/16 9:09am

    Hines is detestable. He used the same tactics that Egyptian forces are using there to catch and jail LGBTQ persons. Hire an actual gay person to do a piece on this if you’re really interested. Straight people posing is sick and voyeuristic.

    Reply
    <
    • Read More
      きらきら星CiegoDosta
      8/12/16 9:30am

      And I’d argue that not knowing anything else about him, the article actually does suggest he’s homophobic. The main thrust of the article was “ha ha gay sex”; it was gay-shaming people who had the bad luck to initiate a conversation with him.

      Reply
      <
    • Read More
      CiegoDostaきらきら星
      8/12/16 9:34am

      Yes. He started with tinder and bumble and pointedly said it was easier to get dates on grindr. Haha oh those gays, so promiscuous. It was definitely worse than Gawker’s nasty hit piece, which is saying something.

      Reply
      <
  • Read More
    ArdenJ.K. Trotter
    8/12/16 8:47am

    Are you really “in the closet” when you put your name, photo, age, and location in a publicly searchable database designed explicitly to get The Gay Sex? I should say I only have knowledge of Tinder so maybe Grindr doesn’t work that way, but still?

    Reply
    <
    • Read More
      fsdeewfsadArden
      8/12/16 8:56am

      it’s fun how you realized you don’t know what you’re talking about in your last sentence, but then kept going anyway.sad

      Reply
      <
    • Read More
      Don't Judge Me I Swear I'm NiceArden
      8/12/16 8:56am

      So obviously the information is public, but like with a lot of things in the lgbt community I think there is a joint understanding of anonymity. This straight married journalist didn’t get the message that people in the queer community don’t out each other usually. As a gay person I would never expect another queer guy to out the fact that I had grindr on a public forum, and I think that would be rarer because other gbt men understand that outing is awful. Gay dating apps are a space for people who want to do gay things with each other, and so I don’t think this is something that one could reasonably expect to happen. It’s one thing to have your info on an app that can be viewed by other people in your area, and another to have that info then written up in an article. I think the issue too is, while this information is technically public the journalist got the information by essentially catfishing people.

      Reply
      <
  • Read More
    Desi_RelafordJ.K. Trotter
    8/12/16 8:14am

    Don’t out people.

    Reply
    <
    • Read More
      HeadlessDeschainDesi_Relaford
      8/12/16 8:41am

      Can you really be on Grindr and in the closet? If anything, it seems more like being in EVERYONE’S closet and expecting perfect strangers, journalists and gestapo included to lie for you, to automatically help you keep your secret.

      It’s not the same thing, and it’s really quite unfair.

      Reply
      <
    • Read More
      BrotherFromAnotherMotherHeadlessDeschain
      8/12/16 9:01am

      I think there’s a world of difference between trolling for a little ass on Grindr and waving a rainbow flag in the Pride parade. I would never say people shouldn’t be out, but that’s something that happens when people are ready.

      Reply
      <
  • Read More
    yoshinoyaJ.K. Trotter
    8/12/16 10:07am

    Not surprising to see Gawker take a contrarian stance to support this insipid Daily Beast article since doing so supports Gawker’s own wrongheaded decision to out some random account exec from Conde Nast. Don’t pat yourselves on the back too hard.

    Reply
    <
    • Read More
      jbishop15yoshinoya
      8/12/16 10:18am

      What Gawker did was awful, but outing a Conde Nast executive as gay is not the same as outing a person who will literally be tortured and killed for being gay.

      Reply
      <
    • Read More
      yoshinoyajbishop15
      8/12/16 10:25am

      Their rationale supporthing themselves is identical - that removing an article because it is controversial, rather than inaccurate or defamatory, should not be done. So Gawker merely ruined a non-public person’s life and destroyed his family in a country that homosexuality is not criminally punished, while Daily Beast did the same thing for people who don’t have that luxury. That is not to Gawker’s credit.

      Reply
      <
  • Read More
    DolemiteJ.K. Trotter
    8/12/16 9:11am

    Whew, glad they took it down so fast. Once something is deleted from the internet, it’s gone for good.

    Reply
    <
    • Read More
      JVBaseballSuperstarJ.K. Trotter
      8/12/16 9:40am

      Shaun King has been going hard at the Daily Beast for the last 24 hours or so...

      Reply
      <
      • Read More
        TwoPumpTrumpJ.K. Trotter
        8/12/16 8:29am

        Anyone want to buy a media company that thinks it’s OK to force people out of the closet? It’s going for pretty cheap!

        Reply
        <