QUEER FRIENDSHIP
Dating apps aren’t just for hook-ups
LGBTQIA PEOPLE ARE SWIPING RIGHT TO FIND COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
WRITES ELEANOR NOYCE
Ever since I moved to London, I’ve become painfully aware of how isolating it can be.Though I moved with a few university friends, I quickly realised that adult life was more solitary than I might’ve liked. University had been such a grounding, community centred force. To have my social life uprooted was unsettling and I struggled with the new routine. I missed the community that I’d built around me.
“Would you ever use a dating app for something other than sex?” I overheard one friend ask another on the bus shortly after I moved. “Yeah, Bumble isn’t just for dating, you know. There’s a business setting and a BFF setting. It’s capitalism gone mad.” I smiled to myself, cherishing one of these classic public interactions: the ones that are tweet-worthy.