Three women in Britain have gone viral after they turned to gay dating app Grindr for a surprising reason: to find themselves a fourth roommate.The Independent says Cliodhna Heffernan, 27, created the Grindr account, which included a photo of the three women, after they struggled to find someone else to live with then using more traditional sites such as SpareRoom.com.
The women are based in Birmingham in the Midlands.Heffernan says she and her roommates wanted a bit of “masculine energy” in their house.
However, after not finding someone who was the “right fit”, a gay friend suggested they try Grindr.Related: Grindr disappears from app stores in ChinaShe told the Daily Mail, “We had a house with four girls and one of them was moving out.
We weren’t adamant that we wanted a male to move in, but we thought it would be a nice change to bring a bit of masculine energy into the house and change things up.“It was never a discussion of ‘oh we want a gay man’, it was just ‘oh we want a man’.