“These meritless and obviously homophobic accusations against our company are rooted in historical bigotry toward the LGBTQ community and we won’t stand for it,” Lenihan said in a statement. Grindr spokesperson Patrick Lenihan condemned the lawsuit as being without merit and drew parallels to current right-wing rhetoric that accuses LGBTQ people of “grooming” children. “If Grindr’s going to claim that it's a safe space for the LGBTQ community, then it needs to actually be one,” Carrie Goldberg, a New York City attorney who specializes in sex crimes and the nonconsensual sharing of sexual materials who is representing the plaintiff, told BuzzFeed News. ![]() It also says the company willingly ignores the presence of underage users on the app. The suit accuses Grindr of actively attempting “to recruit children to use its product” through marketing and then connecting them with adults for sex. Grindr was sued on Friday in California for more than $66 million in damages by a Canadian teen who was raped by four men he met on the platform when he was underage.Īccording to the lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the now-19-year-old from Nova Scotia - referred to in the lawsuit only by the pseudonym “John Doe” - was raped by four men over a four-day period in April 2019 after connecting with them on the gay hookup app when he was 15.
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