Out's gay 'City Guides' app

Out recently announced the launch of its new mobile application. iPhone users may now download Out’s “City Guides” directly to their Apple mobile device free of charge.

“With the inside scoop on where to eat, drink, shop, and play, Out’s new app is like a great date—witty, charming, connected, and, best of all, available. Who doesn’t want that?” said Out Editor in Chief Aaron Hicklin.

Out magazine’s “City Guides” provides valuable information advising users about the best local gay bars, restaurants, shops, nightlife, and hotels. Out created the “City Guides” by scouring each city and interviewing the top party hounds, retail therapists, and culinary elites. From hot parties to chic lounges, Out now offers the most extensive guide to great gay places.

Grindr hits 500,000 members

Today Grindr, the largest all-male mobile location-based networking service reached its landmark 500,000th member and is still growing.

Since the inception of this innovative social networking application in early 2009, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 new users have been signing up every day.

Joel Simkhai, Grindr's founder and CEO, says, "Grindr's growth has come from one source, our users. Grindr users are telling their friends about Grindr, they are blogging and Twittering about Grindr, and posting their success stories on their Facebook status updates."

The app, which runs on iPhone and iPod touch, uses location-based technology like GPS, cell towers and Wi-Fi to determine the user’s location. A quick tap delivers profiles, photos, and information of nearby guys. A user’s profile is available in seconds, as are chat functions and sending additional photos or even a user’s map location.

Guys with iPhones can Buy for Equality with new app from HRC

Continuing the effort launched at the beginning of the busy holiday shopping season, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, released a first of its kind, free iPhone application for its “Buying for Equality” guide. This new technology will allow shoppers to access the Buying for Equality guide as they enter a store to see how hundreds of popular American brands are rated based on the businesses’ treatment of their LGBT employees. The iPhone application is available for download at www.hrc.org/iPhone. Both Apple, and the iPhone’s exclusive service provider, AT&T,

The Buying for Equality iPhone application puts information directly in the hands of consumers in an easy to read format that divides businesses and their consumer products into red (brands to avoid), yellow (brands that have made some progress) and green (brands to support) categories to help consumers support businesses that support LGBT equality. These color-coded rankings are based on a company’s score on the HRC Corporate Equality Index (www.hrc.org/CEI), a nationally recognized benchmark that scores major American corporations based on their workplace policies and commitment to fairness for their LGBT employees.

“As pro-equality consumers enter the stores in 2010, the new Buying for Equality iPhone application is a revolutionary tool that will help inform purchases and support those businesses who believe in our equality,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “With this application, critical information about workplace equality is now at the fingertips of thousands of LGBT and allied supporters who have hundreds of billions of dollars in buying power. This is another way that we are enabling our community to come together to support those that support us in this new year ahead.”

AMG Beefcake app for the iPhone

Athletic Model Guild announced the recent release of its second iPhone app, “AMG Beefcake!”.

“AMG Beefcake!” displays the best of beefcake photography pioneer - and AMG founder - Bob Mizer’s work in a high quality virtual gallery. Users can download, set as wallpaper, or share over 150 historical images from a time when male nudity was not only frowned upon, but also illegal.

“AMG Beefcake!” is available for only 99¢ in the iTunes app store. The images, selected from a collection that includes nearly 1 million individual photographs, show bodybuilders, military men, and blue-collar workers from the turn of the 20th century, clad in posing straps, briefs, and bathing suits. Dennis Bell, the studio’s president, said the app is a reflection of the iconic style that made AMG an inspiration to gay artists and audiences the world over.

“Bob’s black and white work has become synonymous with a certain period in gay photography,” Bell said. “We wanted to celebrate his photography, but at the same time move it forward by delivering some of his best work on a 21st century platform."

Guys with iPhones are hot

It's true! Look and see, but be careful cuz some of them are naked. - via Kenneth in the 212

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Gay Guy Gift Guide: Snocater

The perfect gift for your techie skiers--a Snocater application for their iPhone, providing all the info a skier ever needs about 70 different ski resorts, including daily snow reports, trail maps, and more, and it's based right here in Denver.

With Aspen Gay Ski Week on the horizon and other Colorado gay ski weeks coming up, what could be better?

Now if someone would just invent a Guycator that tells us where all the cute guys are at the ski resorts ...