While straight people can find prospective partners quite easily, queer people need to disentangle an entire maze-like matrix, before entering the dating scene. A fully-fledged community hides within the crevices of the app, bonding over anything from tattooed lesbians to Hozier. It was also a place where I found myself most vulnerable. Promising anonymity, this blog-style app became a journal for my thoughts and desires. I had downloaded Tumblr at the age of 13.
Instead, I buried myself in books, fantasy, crime fiction and breathed in the air of yearning through romance novels. I had known about my sexuality for a long time but had never said it out loud in fear it would call upon omniscient spirits and somehow smite my absent love life. The first time I fell in love with a girl, I was 17, closeted and touch-starved.
