In the past couple years, Sniffies emerged as a serious competitor to Grindr — and not just among cisgender gay men, the primary demographic of the map-based hookup app, but also the horny community ...

Sniffies is dropping the 2023 DownLoad! Sniffies is a hookup app and website aimed at men who consider themselves gay, bisexual, queer, sexually fluid, or at least “curious.” In many ways, Sniffies ...

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Less than one-third of Sniffies users identified as gay in 2025, with bisexual men narrowly outnumbering gay men on the popular cruising app, according to the platform’s annual “Sniffies Download” ...

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One night this past February, over drinks and moody bar lighting, Eric Green and his friends were swapping stories of their recent hookups when one mentioned they’d used the app Sniffies to have ...

The New Yorker has published an article about the cruising website, Sniffies… to the horror of many gay guys. For many, Sniffies was a gay secret that straight people had no need to know about. As ...

Alexander Cheves is a memoirist, sex columnist for Out magazine, and author of My Love Is a Beast: Confessions from Unbound Edition Press, which won the 2022 Geoff Mains Nonfiction Award from NLA ...

Tinder and Hinge parent company Match Group invested $100 million into the queer cruising app Sniffies. The move has left users feeling uneasy about what happens next. Tinder and Hinge parent company ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...