Photo: Grindr Grindr has announced that it will finally remove its controversial ethnicity filter from the dating app, after years of complaints that it promotes racism.
The decision came following nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd last week, a black man who was killed after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes and ignored his pleas for help. “We stand in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the hundreds of thousands of queer people of color who long in to our app every day,” Grindr said in a statement posted to Twitter.
Noting that it would “not be silent” nor “inactive,” Grindr said that it would be making donations to the Marsha P. Johnson Institute and Black Lives Matter, and
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