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On-line relationship as a lesbian, for probably the most half, nonetheless entails having your area invaded by straight individuals.

The heteronormative weirdness bought so alienating that lesbians started turning to TikTok as a method of assembly different single lesbians — seems, it is a fairly good matchmaker.

But it surely’s unrealistic to count on a social media app to work like a relationship app for everybody. It is arduous for a few of us to grasp, however not everybody spends each free minute on TikTok. Lesbians who’ve exhausted their native romantic choices are nonetheless going to need to see who else is on the market in time for cuffing season.

Is on-line relationship troublesome for lesbians?

For a lot of present historical past, some individuals have acted as if lesbians did not exist exterior of porn and Ellen DeGeneres, whereas jokes swirled about how ladies solely turned to relationship girls if they’d a nasty expertise with a person. Even in 2023, these tone-deaf assumptions nonetheless discover a approach to rain on the lesbian on-line relationship expertise. If it is not a person showing in your feed once you particularly marked that you simply’re looking for girls, it is matching with a girl simply to be hit with the basic “My boyfriend and I are searching for a threesome.”

There’s one huge drawback: The apps focused towards the straights are nonetheless the place many of the queer customers are, too. Although women-only apps like HER are gaining traction quick, they will nonetheless be a little bit of a ghost city…or a scammer’s paradise. You simply should resolve whether or not you’d relatively cope with the quirks of Tinder and have extra choices to swipe by means of or be fantastic with coming throughout the identical profile 3 times so long as it is not a person.

What’s the finest relationship app for lesbians?

A good variety of relationship websites and apps particularly for lesbians do exist, however most are plagued with the identical points: Both their sole objective is to sexualise lesbians and are not actually meant for real connection in any respect, or their lax safety protocols make it method too simple for ill-intentioned males to enroll pretending to be girls. In the event you’re questioning why we left most of these so-called female-only apps out, that is why.

With that in thoughts, we’ve got lined up a number of robust choices to go well with lesbians and homosexual girls. Hopefully, there’s something for everybody on this roundup.

These are the very best relationship apps for lesbians in 2024.