The China-born app is ambitiously eyeing overseas market in particular. Blued Screenshot from App Storeīorn 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.īlued boasts over 27 million registered users, about 20% of which are overseas users, according to its official website. Here are the latest networking apps catering to the LGBT community in China.
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. Believe it or not, China has a vibrant LGBT app scene where a number of dating apps are serving the estimated tens of millions of people in the LGBT community in China.
