Closeted Olympic athletes on Grindr can breathe a sigh of relief

Grindr has changed the privacy settings for people using the app in the Olympic Village in Beijing. Users in the Village can still find one another, but their profiles are not visible to people outside the Village.

Bloomberg reports that the change “is designed to protect the world’s top athletes from persecution or harassment.”

“We want Grindr to be a space where all queer athletes, regardless of where they’re from, feel confident connecting with one another while they’re in the Olympic Village,” said Grindr for Equality head Jack Harrison-Quintan.

The shift keeps nosy outsiders from…

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