OkCupid can also be releasing new in-app questions for LGBTQ+ customers

OkCupid was the primary relationship app to supply expanded gender and orientation choices, and we now supply customers 22 genders and 20 orientation choices. We’re additionally one of many solely non-exclusively LGBTQ+ relationship apps that doesn’t drive customers to pick out being proven in a binary context. Final Delight Month, we additional expanded our identification choices for LGBTQ+ customers, now giving queer daters over 60 identities to select from. (And since we all know folks don’t slot in a single field we help you select as much as 5 completely different identities!) This Delight Month, we’re excited to share that we now have added new in-app, matching questions devoted to our LGBTQ+ daters all over the world.

The LGBTQIA group is just not solely vital to us, it’s vital to you. Practically all (97%) of our daters on OkCupid care about LGBTQ+ points, and 7 in 10 daters say it is vital that their match cares concerning the LGBTQ+ group. We additionally discovered that 97% of almost 1.5 million folks on OkCupid help marriage equality. We’ve got at all times believed love is love.

Our new matching questions, added in honor of Delight Month, show you how to uncover all the pieces from how a match helps the transgender group to what pleasure means to them. These matching questions, together with all of our different questions on and for the LGBTQ+ group, have been answered 30 million instances thus far.

What we’re asking:

• Do you advocate for LGBTQ+ rights?
• Is it vital that your date cares about transgender rights?
• Is it OK to silently help the transgender motion?
• Do you assume LGBTQ+ rights are in danger given the present Supreme Courtroom?
• What does Delight imply to you?
• How would you like to have kids?

What you’re saying:

• 74% of OkCupid respondents say they advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, and Gen Z are 7% extra possible than Millennials and 21% extra possible than Gen X to take action
• About 7 in 10 Gen Zers (67%) and Millennials (64%) say it’s vital that their date cares about transgender rights
• 98% of non-binary respondents stated it’s vital that their date cares about transgender rights
• 71% of feminine respondents stated it’s vital that their date cares about transgender rights
• 51% of male respondents stated it’s vital that their date cares about transgender rights
• Individuals who stated each voice and vote issues when supporting the transgender motion acquired 6% extra conversations and 11% extra Likes than those that really feel it’s a private option to silently help the motion
• A majority (71%) of OkCupid respondents in the USA really feel LGBTQ+ rights are in danger given the present Supreme Courtroom, and Millennials are essentially the most involved technology
• 43% of LGBTQ+ respondents stated Delight means equal rights for all; 38% stated being authentically them; and 19% stated celebrating everybody
• 57% of homosexual males would love kids, with 31% eager to undertake, 19% selecting surrogacy 7% contemplating fostering (whereas 43% of homosexual males stated they don’t need kids)
• 65% of lesbian ladies would love kids, with 42% saying they or their accomplice would carry the child, 21% eager to undertake and a pair of% who would go for surrogacy (whereas 36% don’t want kids)

We’re additionally updating our gender and orientation pages on our app. After listening to from completely different LGBTQ+ customers, we realized there was a possibility to teach and inform folks concerning the completely different identities we provide. Starting quickly, we will likely be including definitions to every of our gender and orientation choices to assist folks higher perceive what these phrases imply, and higher serve all our customers.

“As we head into Delight month, OkCupid is making certain customers can extra precisely and authentically be represented on the platform. We all know from our work the distinction this makes to LGBTQ+ folks,” stated Shoshana Goldberg, Ph.D. MPH, Director of the HRC’s Public Training & Analysis Program. “Kudos to them for his or her continued dedication to getting LGBTQ+ illustration on the platform proper.”

Please think about making a donation to HRC right now to gas the struggle for equality.

Media contact: MichaelK@OkCupid.com

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