'Perhaps in a bar people are not wearing a sign that so bluntly disclosed your prejudices,' he added, noting that online 'some people feel comfortable doing so.' Matt Chun Courtesy Matt Chun “Hispanics are with Hispanics, blacks are with blacks, whites are with whites, and Asians are hanging out with Asians.”
“When you have a diverse crowd, very often that crowd that otherwise may look diverse, pretty much it is segregated within the crowd,” Mena said. Leandro Mena, a professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center who has studied LGBTQ health for the past decade, said dating apps like Grindr may merely reflect the exclusion and segregation that already exists among gay men - and 'society at large.' “We as the LGBTQ community are supposed to bring love and life, but instead we are separating ourselves.”ĭr. “There is already racism and all of that in the world as it is,” Johnson said.
