It’s hard finding a date. That’s why millions upon millions of people turn to the internet to find their next honey. And we’re not talking Manhunt here. Believe it or not, gay men and women actually find longterm lovers via the world wide web. One of the biggest site, eHarmony, refuses to help them.
Founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren claims that since eHarmony’s a “marriage” based-site, they can’t cater to the homos. Homos, of course, can’t legally marry and eHarmony goes by the book. What he doesn’t mention, however, is that his law book goes by another name: The Bible. The popular site got its start under the Focus on The Family wing. Warren’s great chums with that old homo-hater, James Dobson and Dobson used to promote the site on his radio show. The men severed their business ties back in 2005, when eHarmony became a publicly traded company. Their homophobic legacy lives on, however, thus ensuring no gay will ever find love on their cultish site.
Now another dating site’s looking to fill that gaping hole. Chemistry.com – an offshoot of gay loving match.com – has launched an aggressive ad campaign highlighting eHarmony’s discriminatory logic. Here’s their queer commercial. It’s sweet, to the point and, we hope, effective…
Dawster
from the article on The Black Table:
… “eHarmony wants to ensure their customers get matched, they reject a small number of people who fill out the questionnaire, for reasons ranging from a poor relationship history (for instance, a large number of divorces), to what rejected users on eDateReview described as ‘low energy’.”
“Marylyn Warren states that this method, while embarrassing to the user, in the long run will help both the user and the site: ‘One of the things that is really important for us is to be a site of integrity,’ … ‘We know that there are certain profiles that will come up of people that we absolutely cannot match. We do not want to take their money, because there’s no way we can help them. There’s no way we can find enough matches that would be really pleasing for them.’ ”
fuckers.
John
I remember seeing an eharmony.com ad on Bravo during a gay wedding special.
Too strange.
Jackson
Here’s another site that is really the only gay-centric dating service that I have had success with. It’s pretty much like a gay version of eHarmony…but they also offer private matchmaking.
http://www.mypartnerperfect.com
Mark Brooks
Dr Patrick Perrine is CEO/Founder of MyPartnerPerfect.com and has a PhD in Psychology and a Masters in Human Sexuality from SFSU. He picks up where eHarmony’s model leaves off by actually providing a (huigh end) personal matchmaking service, over and above the online matchmaking service. His blog is at http://www.patrickperrine.com.
Mark Brooks
Editor, OnlinePersonalsWatch.com
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Patrick Perrine
myPartnerPerfect is just that, a “dating site all about the gays”! Partially because of the discriminating policy of eHarmony and other such dating services that are considered “relationship” sites, I founded myPartnerPerfect. For far too long the industry has neglected the gay community and their pursuit for life-partners. Instead, the dating service industry has been flooded with gay sites that only promote hook-ups and sexual encounters. I don’t object to the other sites and services, but at myPartnerPerfect we are offering a different type of gay dating experience that is more synonymous with the quality of relationship based sites such as eHarmony.
Patrick H. Perrine
Founder/CEO
myPartnerPerfect.com
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