While most gay men employ modern apps such as Grindr and Scruff to locate potential hookups, it appears many Republicans are still relying on Craiglist’s antiquated M4M pages.
The Daily Dot reports that the number of Casual Encounters posts on Craigslist in Cleveland have skyrocketed since the GOP rolled into town earlier this week.
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Pages upon pages of ads have appeared, with headlines such as “RNC anonymous ass up bottom,” “Bend over RNC bitch boy” and “I’ll work over your little RNC holes.”
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Some might find the uptick in ads surprising, especially during a convention that is hosting someone of the most homophobic politicians of our time, including Mike Pence and Ted Cruz, but those of us in the know have seen this sort of thing before.
In 2015, a reporter with ReasonTV went to the Conservative Political Action Conference and logged on to Grindr only to find dozens of gay men less than 500 feet away from him. Then, of course, there are all those antigay pastors, lawmakers and other community figures who have been caught on gay dating apps.
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Mo Bro
Is this supposed to make Republicans look bad, or just gay men in general?
ErikO
A lot of ads on Craigslist are apparently fake/spam or written by bots.
Masc Pride
Seems really fake and obvious. It also doesn’t seem like Republican guys posting the ads. The fact that these ads are so adamant about proclaiming RNC would most likely repel any interest. If there are RNC guys creeping around, wouldn’t they want the utmost of discretion? The bait is far too obvious for anyone to bite.
Masc Pride
@ErikO: I think Queerty editors posted most of them. lol
gjg64
Let us not forget the Onion’s report from the RNC four years ago…
http://www.theonion.com/video/tampa-bay-gay-prostitutes-gearing-up-for-flood-of–29263
gjg64
And who can forget this classic….
http://www.theonion.com/article/gay-marine-beaten-to-bloody-pulp-to-fire-up-rnc-cr-29352
seaguy
Craigslist is still the old reliable option in some places. Grindr is spammy too with ads, bots, and catfishes.
Brian
Men are horny. Most of these ads are placed by straight-identifying guys who find men more fun than women, especially in the quick flings department.
Kangol
@Brian: Which ones did you post?
crazycorgi
I live in the Cleveland area and actually thought about this, so I went on Craigslist and only saw 1 ad, and it wasn’t posted by anyone at the convention. I guess since this the last day those RNC guys must have wanted to go out with a bang because there wasn’t anything like this on there up to today.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Judging by the number of gay republicans we have on this site, those ads don’t surprise me a bit.
I got to admit though, some of those seem plain silly.