Bakla Ako, May Reklamo?

In 2007, I posted entries that listed different gay social networking or gay dating websites (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) that I could recommend for Filipinos here and abroad. When I revisited those posts about three months ago, I noticed that some of the sites are now non-existent or have been sold or have merged with other sites.

It’s now 2009 and boy how things have changed! Some of these sites have added new features or have redesigned the site and have changed platforms. And I think it’s about time I write an updated list.

Guys4men used to be the “it” website but when it merged (aka sold out) with PlanetRomeo, a whole new ballgame has started in Filipino Gay Social Networking and Dating Websites. The response to the merger was not that positive and its members went scrambling online, looking for a new place to meet other men.

The Filipino Gay, a blog that “has the ambitious proposal of providing an avenue for gays to open up themselves to people, explore their inner side, and create an interaction between ourselves,” has posted a paper on Online Gay Social Networking Sites: Effects and Marginalization. The paper “tends to focus on online gay dating sites, the trends, how the users utilize the possibilities of social networking, and present some issues resulting thereon.”

The 6-part series is a very good read! Here’s a list of the parts:
Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, part 6.

Here is my list (in no particular order) of online gay social networking sites for Filipinos (and admirers of Filipino Men):

1. GayRomeo (also known as PlanetRomeo: the Gay Romeo and Guys4Men merger)
2. Gaydar (dot UK or dot Net – the same)
3. Gay.com
4. Gaylog
5. PinoyG4M (a Filipino dating website running on a platform similar to Facebook; adapted the nickname G4M of the erstwhile guys4men)
6. SingleGuysManila (also Filipino-owned; running on the Ning platform)
7. DowneLink
8. Manjam
9. Manhunt (will undergo a system upgrade on July 15)
10. Connexion
11. Fridae
12. DList
13. DudesNude (similar platform with the old Guys4Men)

These are only the few that I know of (and have profiles with – except DudesNude). I’m such an online whore (but an offline bitch) that I have profiles with most of these sites.  What do I use them for? No, not sex. At least not anymore. Not since 2007. Now, it’s merely all about… social networking! Like seriously!

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