Top 5 Chinese LGBT apps in 2017 · TechNode
Summary
Even though the authorities have released regulations in 2016 to ban portrayal of homosexual relationships on television dramas and web series (in Chinese), the LGBT dating app sector has been burgeoning nonetheless.Here are the latest networking apps catering to the LGBT community in China.Born out of LGBT NGO Danlan, Blued was launched in 2012 and has since pocketed six rounds of financing with the latest C++ round from the investment arm of The Beijing News, a state-backed newspaper group.Blued boasts over 27 million registered users, about 20% of which are overseas users, according to its official website. It has opened offices in Europe and Southeast Asia, covering over 190 countries and regions, and is available in 11 languages. As a part of the deal, Blued invested an undisclosed sum as an extension of the $8 million Series A Hornet announced in November 2016.On the other hand, Blued has made profits thanks to the thriving live streaming feature and its mobile marketing business. Its 34-minute mini-movie, Miss You Always, has been watched 1.36 million times on iQiyi, Chinas major video streaming site.Aloha is a social networking app designed for gay men. Picking up the swipe feature from Tinder, users swipe left for nope and right for aloha to get matched with other nearby men.Aloha, Blueds major rival in China, is especially known for its friendly UI design for photo sharing, making it more than a dating app with Tinder and Instagram-like features rolled into one.LesPark (), the major rival of LESDO, is a dating app catering to gay women.