The culture expert from Netflix's Queer Eye reboot has taken a stance against gay dating apps.
“I think they’re the worst,” Karamo Brown said in a recent interview with . “I think they’re horrible. I do not own an app and never have. I think dating apps are keeping us apart.”
He continued: “When you talk about the apps that we have, they usually encourage, ‘Send me a photo,’ which is very vague. My photo has nothing to do with the person I am, the dreams I have, the family I want to build, the family I’m from. We’re in a culture now where, if I don’t like you, I don’t have to get to know you, I just have to swipe left. How horrible is that?”
His message for members of the LGBTIQ+ community looking for love is simple: “Get off the apps and go to the club. Meet people. It’s much more fun”.
In the , Brown also took issue with the over-sexualised nature of some pride marches, saying they can have a damaging effect on LGBTIQ+ youth.
"Our youth are over-sexualised and it’s so sad," he said.
"You think about Pride celebrations; I’ve never been able to bring my own children – except for maybe once or twice – or the youth I used to work with to Pride celebrations, because for them to be walking down the street to be learning what it is to be a proud member of this community, and then see dicks out… that’s just not healthy for a 15-year-old."
Brown continued: "What image does that send out about what you have to do? It affects your body image, it affects your view of the world. I’m by no means – because I love a shirtless selfie – taking away from someone’s right to do that..."
"But as a community, we’ve forgotten that there’s a generation behind us that are watching. That are mimicking what we do and what we say."
