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 Gay.com as of August 2012. | |
Type of site | Personals, Chat, News, Social Networking for gay men. |
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| Available in | English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. |
| Owner | VS Media Inc. |
| Created by | PlanetOut Inc. |
| Revenue | Advertising; membership fee for premium accounts. |
| URL | http://www.gay.com/ |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | May 1997 (re-launched October 2008) |
| Current status | Inactive |
Gay.com was a chat, personals, and social networking website catering to the LGBT community. The site was a digital brand of Here Media Inc.[1] In addition to community features, the site featured LGBT-related news and features. As of September 2005, San Jose Mercury News ranked gay.com as the most popular online gay personals site in the United States. As of March 2007, Hitwise ranked it number three in domestic American popularity after Adam4Adam and Manhunt.[2][3] Gay.com also used to compete internationally with dudesnude, gayromeo, and gaydar.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
DallasNewswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ San Jose Mercury News (September 11, 2005) "Busiest online matchmakers." Section: AE
- ^ Lifestyle - Gay and Lesbian Category: Weekly Market Share of Visits Rankings for the week ending March 17, 2007 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine