The gay rights movement encourages gay people to live openly gay lives. While coming out may be liberating for some, it also incurs a divide between open and closeted people, creating new hurdles within the community internally. Self-stereotyping is one of these hurdles and is evident in many dating sites such as Tinder, Grindr, and Hinge, where there is the option to include personal statistics such as height, weight, and body type. Do categories help people find unity in preference? Or is it just a hypocritical form of division from a community based on openness and acceptance?
