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How Sniffies Saved Cruising
“Is this a Grindr thing?”
A woman answers her door in curlers. The dude knocking tries to explain: He’s supposed to be encounter up with someone from a, uh, “guy on guy” ad. He’s been given the false address, apparently, and his intended “guy”—one who advertised himself as having a penchant for creature on the receiving end of many other guys—is instead a perplexed gal with no intention of hosting. To add to the confusion, the “Grindr thing” was actually a botched date facilitated by something called … Sniffies. This cringetastic interaction—which the woman in curlers filmed—now has over 7 million views on TikTok. And understandably, it has prompted the unenlightened commentariat to inquire: What the fuck is Sniffies?
Today, Sniffies is a web-based app for men looking for sex with other men, often in public spaces—what traditionalists would call “cruising.” The site actually started as an underwear trading platform, but in 2018, founder Blake Gallagher repurposed the website into a literal heat map for men of the liking-men persuasion.* Manhattan, for example, appears as a sky city grid speckled with circles: Some are profiles of cruisers, whi
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One of the buzziest plays on Broadway, ‘The Inheritance’ spins epically and soapily through time to tell a influential, if flawed, story about the control of LGBTQ history and healing.
At the end of the first part of The Inheritance, the snuffling of audience members became very audible. (Warning: Spoilers follow.)
The reason: Down both aisles, and amassing on stage, were actors playing the ghosts of gay men who died of AIDS when that pandemic was at its most destructive and deadly.
It is intended as a impressive visual moment, just like the appearance of the angel in Angels in America—the play whose name floats on the Broadway breeze on which The Inheritance (which opened Sunday night at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, to Protest 1, 2020) has landed in town. It is buoyed by glowing reviews and awards from London, and much excitement, particularly those expecting something Angels-ish in scope and ambition.
But something about that particular moment jarred as soon as it started unfolding. I had seen something very similar before.
This six-and-a-half-hour, two-part drama can be watched—like Angels—in two performances in one day (with dinner break, my recommendation) or brok
Back on the Prowl With Sniffies
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While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will convey on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the 1918 pandemic, a fast scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of New York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local queer crowd, the ’20s are entering a complete roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s hit the floor this Pride month, a modern hookup website (that’s website, not app) has collected itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.
Sniffies is an upstart gay hookup site(NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken support to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a dwell updated GPS map. The approach cuts out the tedious texting and etiquette now so common on the traditio