It’s the end of an era.
Gay.com, the once thriving website that catered to gay men looking to hookup, is under new management as of today and some pretty big changes are underway.
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Gay men of the late ’90s and early ’00s surely remember hours (and hours) spent glued to at their desktop computers hopping from chat room to chat room messaging guys, scanning photos, then sending them alias email addresses. It was the original Grindr.
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Well now, according to the site’s FAQ page, those iconic chatrooms will “disappear” as of August 1, 2016.
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“All the personal information you provided in your profile, including pictures and stories, will be permanently deleted,” the page continues. “Unfortunately, you will not able to retrieve any of your old information. … The dating website as you know it, will not be coming back.”
Honestly, we haven’t logged onto Gay.com in probably about a decade, maybe longer. In fact, we don’t even remember our usernames or passwords anymore. But it’s still sad to think that all those guys we had once favorited and all those chats records we had saved will cease to exist.
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What are some of your best (and worse) Gay.com memories? Share them in the comments section below…
Stache
Other sites like Manhunt should go too. At least most of the guys I messaged way back 10 years ago are still at least there. Well, the same pics and profiles anyways:)
Sweetie Pie
I won´t miss it…they would offer free sign up…but once the user did he would have to suscribe and pay a wad to use the chats…I stopped using it avoer 10 yrs ago
Gaysailor
I met my husband in a Gay.com chat room in Jan. 2005. Haven’t used it since.
alterego1980
most of the time it was pretty boring in the chats, gay.com and others, but nonetheless, I will always have fond memories 😉
NateOcean
@Gaysailor:
“Haven’t used it since.”
Haven’t used what? The website or the husband?
😉
Tobi
@Gaysailor: He’s that bad, huh?! 😉
NateB79
I dated a guy that I met on there for 7 years. I have more fond memories about the chat rooms.
Josh447
Those were the days. Aol chat rooms were neck and neck with gay.com’s. Back and forth back and forth. I met a lot of frogs and a few Princes. It was all fresh new and oh so exciting.
He BGB
The first chat room I ever visited
Ronnie
Met my f*ck buddy on gay.com 12 years ago. Still see him today. One of the best relationships I have had.
martinbakman
I remember when gay.com was a publicly traded stock with symbol lgbt or something like that.
Part of the dot.com stock craze that sometimes made no sense.
Masc Pride
No one will notice. lol
silveroracle
Wow. Blast from the past.
seaguy
It’s not like much chatting was occurring anyway. But they coulda given users a bit more notice.
QJ201
I walked away from gay.com in the late 90’s when they wanted 20 bucks a month membership fee… whereas the “hookup sites” were all (still) free (then).
RIGay
Wow! Talk about a blast from the past! I had an account on gay.com DECADES ago – can’t say I ever had a good hook-up on the site; like the AOL chat rooms at the time, the users were pretty… well… I learned a lot about the fiction of profiles.
Surprised this site is still around!
Partnered / married for the past 18 years in a closed, monogamous relationship. Don’t miss the social scene at all.
Mack
Now my ex will have even more trouble finding some one.
bdavidwv
ahh..this is sad. gay.com was the first place i found other people..like me. RIP.
boduke_too
The chat was the best part, meeting new people (even tho the tech sucked so bad, it lagged). Are there any other sites with chat rooms where you can meet new gay people and not have to pay?
bdavidwv
@boduke_too: alt.com chats…profiles..blogs..messanger..email. pay for better features but chat is available at free member level.
anosh001
I hate this because now me and my bf can’t talk anymore………… we have not near so we’re using this to chat and now it’s stop i just hate this but i hope that he’ll read this and mail me his name his Peter and his id was steeple chaser we’re going to meet in this summer and it stop working means we’re never gonna meet
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