Two decades building spaces for the LGBTQ+ community.

I built BreatheHeavy out of my bedroom in high school, back when it was nothing more than a Britney Spears fan site and I had no real idea what it would turn into. Somewhere along the way it grew into an actual community, part newsroom and part forum, a place where people who loved pop culture found each other and, more importantly, decided to stick around.

I have kept it running every single day since then, through the rise and fall of blogs and more algorithm changes than I could ever count, and after more than twenty years it is still standing and so am I. That kind of staying power is not something I take lightly, and it is exactly what I am bringing to this.

Because most of the apps we already have treat people like inventory. They are cold and transactional.

I wanted to build the opposite of all that: something elevated and honest, designed around how gay men actually meet, whether you are flying solo, part of a couple, or the third everyone is hoping to find.