But even so, the non-hetero dating pool is significantly smaller, and many so-called 'LGBT' spaces only cater to gay men. Of course, the estimate depends on self-reporting, and queer folks are not always great at coming forward, for reasons we can't possibly imagine. The CDC estimates that around 4 percent of the population is LGB- or 'something else'-identified. It occurred to me that most people don't take the numbers game into account when it comes to dating queerly. Of course, I hadn't been doing anything wrong Tinder is just an atrocious app for queer women. I don't know if you've ever had a dating app with the difficulty of Candyland mansplained to you at a bar, but I can assure you, it's not cute. Your settings must be wrong.' And then he actually proceeded to double check whether or not I had been doing Tinder correctly. 'And only one of those has ever responded to a message.' Upon hearing this information, a gay male friend cheerfully snatched my phone out of my hands and opened the app. 'I've been on Tinder for over a year and I've only ever gotten four matches,' I once proclaimed to a table full of people.
