I had started transitioning in July so I was coming out of that old relationship into this newness, and I was afraid that I was not going to find my person.
So it's just funny that she came into my life when she did. It's like a separate part of my identity snapped into place when I met Corey, and that continues the longer that we're together. I was not expecting to blow up my whole life and move to the UK with someone I met on Twitch. I started learning about queerness and Gem gave me the term pansexuality, which was one that I resonated with.
And the rest is history. Because we met on TikTok, I had already seen so many different aspects of her life that I liked and was attracted to. Your sexuality and gender identity is really vulnerable and being able to connect to something so vulnerable without having to declare yourself immediately is really powerful. Skip navigation! Last Updated June 14, , PM.
The introduction of Tinder in revolutionised the way people thought about online dating. You only need to look at the proliferation of dating terms over the past 11 years which Refinery29 has written about to see the impact.
But dating-specific platforms, while useful, are only one part of the online love puzzle. And falling in love with someone you met online, without actually intending to do so, seems to be a particularly queer phenomenon. It spawned a whole genre of YouTube in the s and early s where lesbian YouTubers like Whitney and Megan who met on Myspace in and Kaelyn and Lucy who met over email in documented their long-distance relationships.
