Tag: Hinge
Pete Buttigieg’s love story leads to spike in gay users for dating app Hinge
Fortune reported that Hinge received a 30 percent increase in gay men using the service since April 1, about the time Buttigieg's popularity began to soar. Other demographics have remained flat.Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, came out in a 2015 op-ed for the South Bend Tribune. He met Chasten two months later on Hinge. The couple married last year.On the campaign trail, Buttigieg, 37, has repeatedly said that he came out because he wanted to begin dating.(Related: Pete...
Buttigieg Couple Inspires Spike In Hinge Users
Photo by LinkedIn Sales Navigator on UnsplashFor once, we’re happy to have a gay app story that isn’t about crime, arguments, or the Chinese government. Instead, we’ve got a story about how one happy couple is inspiring many more.
Hinge is a dating app like many others except in one vein, it markets itself as being designed for deletion. At the end of the day, the app’s company wants users to actually meet people and get off the program. And...
Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg met his husband on Hinge
The relationship app is 'designed to be deleted'
The first openly-LGBTI candidate in the 2020 US presidential race, Pete Buttigieg, has revealed he met his husband Chasten Glezman on dating app Hinge.
The mayor of South Bend called the relationship app a ‘very millennial thing’ on CNN’s Van Jones show.
Hinge uses Facebook to facilitate connections and prompts users to continue conversations. It takes the slogan ‘designed to be deleted’.
‘I saw this light, something in his eyes’ Buttigieg said of his now-husband....
