Gaydar (website)

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Advertising men from Gaydar.co.uk at Gaypride 2007 in London

Gaydar claims to be the largest English-language chat and contact portal for homosexual , bisexual and transsexual people on the Internet . The portal was opened under this name in November 1999 by the South African Gary Frisch and his partner Henry Badenhorst after a friend told them that he was too busy to look for a new friend. The name is derived from the ability Gaydar .

Due to its origins and presence in the UK , the focus of use remains in English-speaking countries.

Registered users can search and chat with other users' profiles online. Photos can be added to the profiles of each user. The portal also has a radio called Gaydar Radio .

The portal attracted media attention when British politician Chris Bryant used the website in 2003. The same thing happened in 2006 when married British politician Mark Oaten used the portal.

On April 30, 2007, Gaydar Radio received the Sony Award for Best Digital Terrestrial Station of the Year .

On February 10, 2007, under the influence of the hallucinogenic drug ketamine , Gary Frisch fell from the balcony of his apartment on the eighth floor and died.

In May 2007, Henry Badenhorst was named the fourth most influential gay person in the UK by the Independent on Sunday .

At the end of June 2007, a legal dispute between the operator of the British dating portal Gaydar discussed here, the company Qsoft Consulting Ltd. in Twickenham , and the American company Teddy Tong, which also operates an Internet presence under this name and which in turn claims the name Gaydar .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC News: Gaydar founder death fall probed , February 12, 2007
  2. ↑ a b The Telegraph: Gary Frisch , February 13, 2007
  3. ↑ PinkNews.co.uk: GaydarRadio wins a Sony award , May 1, 2007
  4. ↑ Queer.de: Gaydar founder Gary Frisch died , February 13, 2007
  5. ↑ Queer.de: "Special K" killed Gaydar founder , April 23, 2007
  6. ^ The Independent: The pink list 2007: The IoS annual celebration of the great and the gay ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Queer.de: Legal dispute over the brand "Gaydar" , June 29, 2007