Tag: counselling

  • Grindr Addiction to Gay Dating: Is it Possible?

    Grindr Addiction to Gay Dating: Is it Possible?

    I’m old enough to remember a time when gay dating websites didn’t exist, a time before the Internet itself. There was no option to stay home if you wanted to meet guys. You had to go out. You had to go somewhere. Men met men at dinners, parties and dances, at bars and clubs, at…

  • Ian Thorpe’s Coming Out: How Australian Sports Built a Closet for a Champion

    Ian Thorpe’s Coming Out: How Australian Sports Built a Closet for a Champion

    It’s been only a couple of weeks now since I wrote a post questioning both the generally accepted concept of Coming Out and the point of coming out to parents. In that time, there have been at least two significant Australian sports media stories associated with gay identity. The first was about the AFL sports…