Sniff gay

This post is part of Outward, Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ existence, thought, and culture. Read more here.

While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will convey on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the pandemic, a quick scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of Recent York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local gay crowd, the ’20s are entering a full roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s strike the floor this Self-acceptance month, a new one-night stand website (that’s website, not app) has poised itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.

Sniffies is an upstart homosexual hookup site(NSFW!) that’s looking for to harken back to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a live updated

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