Romeo (German LGBT+ Dating app) Just released results of its recent Voter intention poll. Source in the comments.

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by erik_7581

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  2. How in the holy seven AfD is that high in the LGBT group?

  4. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-39641822](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-39641822)

    Same thing in France. If anyone is wondering the reason so many gay men vote right/far-right, the answer is non-European migration and the rise of Islam.

    Basically, we fear mass Muslim migration more than the far-right.

  5. Which specific subgroup of the LGBT community would find itself on Romeo? It is an extremely unpopular site, definitely a specific type of person would find itself on here. Most LGBT folks will use Tinder or Grindr, with some using smaller apps like Scruff, Bumble etc. Still anti-immigration stance is not uncommon in this group despite often being depicted as left-wing, this sample is not truly representative.

  7. LGBT folks probably fear immigration as much as AfD folks.

  9. OP, please add to the title that it is a gay dating app. Describing it as LGBT+ gives the wrong impression. Men are more politically right-leaning, this is important context given that the missing information gives a distorted impression of LGBT+ people as a whole. Just switch “LGBT+” out for “gay”. It’s literally what they call themselves. [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details/ROMEO+-+Gay+Dating?id=com.planetromeo.android.app&hl=en-US&pli=1](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details/ROMEO+-+Gay+Dating?id=com.planetromeo.android.app&hl=en-US&pli=1)

  10. The fact people are puzzled by this shows how fkn dumb Reddit is.

    Islam and LGBT don’t tend to mix very well. How is this coming as a shock to some of you?

  11. For anyone who is surprised:

    Alice Weidel, the leader of AfD is openly lesbian, living with a woman from Sri Lanka for many years. They are in a civil union and have two adopted children.

  13. idk why everyone is taking these results at the face value. The poll system is not transparent and proprietary. This looks like a programming effort

  14. I detest the AfD, but I don’t blame this community for voting for the far-right given how their concerns about Islamization have been dismissed by the left. I guess Denmark is the only EU country where the left is actually tough on immigration (and this has prevented the rise of the far-right).

  15. To my knowledge the “L” is superflous here – there isn’t a lesbian version of Romeo. It’s like a slightly less sex-focused grindr is what I’ve been told.

  16. So gay people don’t like followers of a religion that says they should be killed? I’m shocked

  17. In the United Kingdom, half of British muslims think homosexuality should be illegal: [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law)

    Is it much different in Germany?

    These are the British muslims, by the way, not fresh immigrants with presumably even worse views.

  18. Gay people are people and represent a diverse set of views. Looked at another way, you can see that most gay men did NOT vote for AfD, and that the votes reflect that diversity of viewpoints. Also, don’t lose sight of the fact that even the NSDAP had many gay supporters like Ernst Rohm, as weird as it seems in hindsight. You cannot easily pigeonhole large groups of people, no matter their sexuality.

  19. So this sub doesn’t believe polls but believes self selecting online surveys? Right…

  20. The left ( and reddit) when any (every) poll shows them losing:

    1. Mockery
    2. Name calling
    3. Why are they even voting for them?
    4. So they think these guys are gonna save them?
    5. Na*is!
    6. Bigots!
    7. Save Democracy!
    8. The world has gone crazy (we are sane though)

    Yes that’s right. Mock them and they will turn over to you! That’s how you get votes.

    The reason behind this behavior often lies in the tendency to dismiss or dehumanize those who don’t share the same views. When a group feels threatened or frustrated by losing support in a poll, they might resort to mockery or name-calling to undermine the opposition and avoid acknowledging their own weaknesses. It can also serve as a way to rally their own base by portraying themselves as the defenders of “correct” values, while painting the other side as extreme or unreasonable. The idea is to delegitimize the opposing viewpoint, but ironically, it might alienate potential voters or further entrench divisions. Ultimately, it’s a reaction to losing rather than a strategic path to gaining support.

  21. Lefties – ‘ban the party!!!!’

    People can not continue to dismiss the symptoms that would cause a party like AFD to explode in popularity.

  22. My cousin is lesbian. She votes afd because of arab islamist migrants. Im not surprised

  24. Maybe because the chancellor candidate of the AfD is a lesbian?

    (Ironically too: her partner is of Sri Lankan descent)

  25. Having been in Berlin recently, it’s comprehensible…

    Gay flags are everywhere, except where germans are the minority…

    A different meaning, yet it reminds me like some years ago, in the US, gay flags were both an inclusive symbol as well as an anti-Trump symbol.

    Strange are this new times!

  26. The methodology is questionable from a social science perspective, but…

    It’s worth highlighting that there are many high profile gay and lesbian conservatives. In Germany, you have Alice Widel as the Spitzenkandidatin of the AfD. Jens Spahn in the CDU is also a well-known conservative and is a good friend of both Peter Thiel and Richard Grenell (who are both gay conservatives). The leader of “Young Union Berlin” is Harald Burkart (Harry Burkart); if you google him, you can find his Grindr pictures, and there is a rumor that he was a member of the AfD.

  28. The most fun thing to me is that people are surprised by this.

  29. So you’re learning that calling them Nazis isn’t working… Time to double down!

  31. I mean I am not surprised that a lot of Green voters are LGBT+ but AfD??? Really?

  32. It’s always fascinating to see how people will vote against their best interests just to shaft some total stranger who has no effect on their lives at all but looks different to them.

    Absolutely wild.

  33. The irony is too big to comprehend. Look at all these big fat leopards waiting their turn.

  35. Ok, so this is crazy, but apparently very common lately. I have a German friend, she’s your typical well-educated young adult, she’s very accepting of gay people, but I’m pretty sure she is voting AfD because of the immigration problem. I don’t live in Germany, but I kind of get her concerns. What I will never understand is the pipeline from being tougher on immigration and voting for literal nazis. People would rather see no Muslims than having normal, stable people leading the country.

    As a queer person myself, I have felt very hopeless lately. People are ready to throw away our rights and safety just out of hate for immigrants. At the same time, we are used as scapegoats for anything. Basically, the other enemy besides immigrants. It really feels we are taking a dark turn, especially with Trump in power and so many countries following the same pattern. In Romania, I’m pretty sure many people are voting far right just because they hate gays. Not fun times for us… 😕

  37. Here in Poland, we don’t have Islamist immigration problems. I don’t blame them for voting for AFD in Germany. It’s quite sad that The Left capitulated so much around the world. Once a stronghold in poorer areas, now it’s thought of as a place for detached from reality middle-upper class citizens from big cities who have no idea about people’s real struggles. I am saying this as person who has more liberal than conservative opinions.

  39. reminder about grindr crashing when there was a republican convention somewher in the US.

    They are selfhating gays. lots of them.

  41. As a gay person who deleted his socials two years ago. I got a lot of death threats, weird messages, reports etc from profiles that clearly were Muslims.

    I’m illegal in all of their countries.

    They want to kill me.

    I fully understand why queers feel we only have the far right as the left call us bad for explaining how Islam is basically the opposite of everything we believe in.

    We need a left wing party that is not pro insane cult religious that are NOT compatible with our modern lives. And this isn’t just for gays. It’s for women too.

    In my country I don’t vote right wing. But we have strict immigration controls anyway and a small Muslim population who mostly start living like we do and sending their kids to play with ours and you hear them with our accents but wearing their culture. That’s fine.

    But others, they want to change our countries and turn it into the middle east, demand to build mosques, kill people who openly disrespect their religion, openly call us demons and monsters, threaten us with violence and I don’t speak for all gays, but I’d rather be DEAD than live in a Muslim controlled nation.

    If we don’t have a left wing voice who is against Muslims controlling our countries, who do we have?

  43. AFD leader is lesbian it doesn’t really take much to put two the two together on why LGBT people might prefer her over more refugee influx.

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