In the days before hook-up apps, the cruising megasite was Gaydar. I joined 13 years ago, newly single and living in leafy North London. “Internet dating” was a bizarre beast. So many reasons to be wary. How do you know that’s them in the photo? And if it is, how do you know it’s not from a time when ABBA were still in the charts?
Having only had a profile for three months, when I receive a series of messages out of the blue from a person who reckons he’s George Michael, one of the greatest pop stars of the time, I’m naturally disinclined to believe him.