{"id":8257,"date":"2013-12-25T21:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basicallybeyondbasic.com\/?p=8257"},"modified":"2021-05-30T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:46:27","slug":"how-my-family-discovered-grindr-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2013\/12\/25\/how-my-family-discovered-grindr-on-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How My Family Discovered Grindr on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I come from a large family where I can say with some confidence that I am possibly and probably the only gay guy. Could there be someone in the closet? Maybe, but I&#8217;m doubtful. I am sure my family has the potential to be accepting of the LGBT community (especially if they knew about me being a member of it) but that doesn&#8217;t mean they currently have gotten to that point yet. Where each and everyone would accept and love a homosexual with open arms. Without making slurs or offensive comments. I say this because I&#8217;ve heard a few homophobic remarks made by my family in the past. After hearing the stuff that gets said, I&#8217;m left with very little desire to even <em>want<\/em> to come out to most people.<\/p>\n<p>Every time my uncle throws a party, he invites a very close family friend. An older gay man who was childhood friends with very my dad and my grandfather. My family has known about his gay sexuality for years, they accept it (to my knowledge?), and continue to welcome him to all of our parties. That alone is a huge win for me.<\/p>\n<p>I have a <em>chance<\/em> of being accepted.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this relative also dabbles around in the world of digital dating (I believe he&#8217;s currently single) because all of a sudden, as I&#8217;m in the middle of a conversation with my mom, sister, and my two female cousins, he walks in the room with my dad and two uncles, whips out his iPhone, and says, &#8220;<strong>Look at this guy!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8258 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-6-17-00-pm-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=200,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-6-17-00-pm.png 200w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=193,height=290,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-6-17-00-pm.png 193w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=435,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-6-17-00-pm.png 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=611,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-6-17-00-pm.png 407w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,height=960,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-6-17-00-pm.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He shows us all a picture of a reallyyyyyy hot guy.<\/p>\n<p>In my head, I instantly thought, &#8220;Gosh&#8230; he looks so familiar! But why? He&#8217;s certainly very cute!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My uncle continues, &#8220;He&#8217;s only 300 feet away. This guy is on a gay app called Grindr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aaah. That&#8217;s why I recognized him.<\/p>\n<p>My other uncle who was hosting the Christmas party shouts, &#8220;WAIT A MINUTE! That&#8217;s my neighbor&#8217;s son!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then a cousin shouts, &#8220;I went to high school with him!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An uproar ensued as everyone started gossiping over the gay guy next door.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle finished by saying, &#8220;<em>You&#8217;re welcome, stranger<\/em>! You&#8217;ve been outed by your neighbor&#8217;s friend. Aw, poor kid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I sat there in silence with three troubling thoughts. First off, I\u00a0<strong>recognized<\/strong> this kid which was just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bizarre<\/span>. Second, I had to sit there and pretend like I didn&#8217;t know what Grindr was meanwhile I could have probably explained it better than anyone else. Third, <strong>OH NOOOO!<\/strong>\u00a0I HAVE A PROFILE ON GRINDR! They&#8217;re going to see it.<\/p>\n<p>My account on Grindr has no photos, no details, nothing. It&#8217;s empty\u00a0<strong>but it is there.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8261 size-medium\" style=\"margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-9-35-12-pm-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=200,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-9-35-12-pm.png 200w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=435,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-9-35-12-pm.png 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=611,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-9-35-12-pm.png 407w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=512,height=768,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-9-35-12-pm.png 512w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,height=960,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-9-35-12-pm.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This guy was freaking out with my dad and my family because they found a gay guy less than 300 feet away. Well, that is just super because that means there was another empty profile image <strong>right<\/strong> <strong>before<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>that one <\/strong>with no photo or caption but\u00a0a distance of even <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">less<\/span><\/strong> than 300 feet BECAUSE ME AND HIM WERE IN THE SAME ROOM!!! I guess it is safe to assume he now knows that blank account is mine. He has to know now. He just has to. Maybe this was all a way of him coming out to me to let me know I can confide in him? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the story of how my family discovered Grindr and the boys on it right before Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come from a large family where I can say with some confidence that I am possibly and probably the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,5484],"tags":[1006,1828,3374],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How My Family Discovered Grindr on Christmas Day | The Rocky Safari<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2013\/12\/25\/how-my-family-discovered-grindr-on-christmas-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How My Family Discovered Grindr on Christmas Day | The Rocky Safari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I come from a large family where I can say with some confidence that I am possibly and probably the &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2013\/12\/25\/how-my-family-discovered-grindr-on-christmas-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Rocky Safari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/therockysafari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-26T02:01:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-30T18:46:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-6-17-00-pm.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rocky Trifari\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@therockysafari\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@therockysafari\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rocky Trifari\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2013\/12\/25\/how-my-family-discovered-grindr-on-christmas-day\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2013\/12\/25\/how-my-family-discovered-grindr-on-christmas-day\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rocky Trifari\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e0f0eafc6341812d972b00f49664cf89\"},\"headline\":\"How My Family Discovered Grindr on Christmas Day\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-26T02:01:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-30T18:46:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2013\/12\/25\/how-my-family-discovered-grindr-on-christmas-day\/\"},\"wordCount\":598,\"commentCount\":7,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2013\/12\/25\/how-my-family-discovered-grindr-on-christmas-day\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,height=960,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo-dec-25-6-17-00-pm.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Coming Out\",\"Gay\",\"Online Dating\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Gay &amp; 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