Sniff gay

This post is part of Outward, Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ being, thought, and culture. Read more here.

While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will transport on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the 1918 pandemic, a hasty scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of New York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local queer crowd, the ’20s are entering a occupied roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s hit the floor this Pride month, a modern hookup website (that’s website, not app) has prepared itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.

Sniffies is an upstart gay hookup site(NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken support to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a inhabit updated GPS map. The approach cuts out the tedious texting and etiquette now so common on the traditio

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