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Under the sun, dressed in sneakers, white socks, a t-shirt, and shorts, a sporty rainbow boy sweating freely must be a beautiful sight, hence the name Bai Wa ('white socks'). Bai Wa Men is a social platform for gay men to chat and make friends, symbolizing cleanliness, tidiness, sports, and sunshine. It aims for every gay individual to live under the sunlight, warmed by love and respect.

In fact, no homosexual is ever alone. According to statistics, 5 out of 100 people are part of the LGBTQ+ community. The LGBTQ-focused app Blued has already gone public with tens of millions of users, indicating the vastness of this community. However, these individuals were previously scattered within the crowds on platforms like Aloha, Tongzhi, and rare cultural communities like Ximen. As a minority group seeking privacy, they engaged in closeted friendships, each dealing with their own loneliness and worries.

• Gay Dating:

From coast to coast are kindred spirits; on Bai Wa, LGBTQ+ individuals can socialize and find partners with nearby, in-city, or long-distance gay friends. Here, they can express their suppressed feelings of oppression, boredom, and loneliness freely with whom they wish to connect. Contrary to the belief that gays do not need partners, they hail from diverse backgrounds and seek to share their lives with a significant other through food and love. Bai Wa endeavors to offer a platform for all gay men to break free from solitude, find soulmates; some offer you warmth through congee while others stand beside you at dusk.

• LGBTQ+ Community:

Bai Wa serves as a metaphorical LGBTQ+ Park where every gay individual can shed their facades and reveal themselves authentically in this ‘gay park’, sharing their daily lives and observing how others in the LGBTQ+ community live. By participating in discussions and exchanges within male-male interactions and LGBTQ+-focused content-sharing platforms like Blue Client ('蓝客'), members discover common interests, affinities, topics, and ambitions. In this cycle of affectionate sharing and healing connections, they find solace from solitude and isolation.

Future Prospects:

In the realm of queer social networking platforms alongside predecessors like Blued, Zank, Jack’d, Aloha, Green Pepper ('青椒'), Tongzhi ('搜同'), Songguo Tongxing ('松果同性'), Saogay ('saogay'), Grindr, Scruff; Bai Wa appears as a nascent entity with numerous areas for growth and enhancement.

In the future, Bai Wa aims not only to function as a queer dating app but also as an ecosystem for LGBTQ+ individuals. It may introduce queer short videos, movies, live streams, gay novels, and BL fiction.

May all LGBTQ+ individuals shine as brightly under the sun as Bai Wa hopes they would.

• User Stories:

I met a young man on the social platform Bumble who was a sporty guy with a sunshine persona and liked wearing white socks—just my type. After chatting for some time, he confessed his love for white socks in that particular way you might understand. Initially intrigued but later captivated by him; liking white socks turned out not to be an embarrassing fetish for me. Now it's just one of his endearing quirks. We have been together for a year now; with many years ahead of us. I wish to walk alongside him forever.

When I first entered the dating scene and was introduced to Nico by others; the app seemed quite formal with rigorous vetting processes. Consequently, it lacked some fun elements; most profiles seemed rather dull. Later on, I dabbled in Saint Demon Lover ('圣魔思慕'), which was slightly more engaging than Nico but somewhat chaotic. On one occasion there was an enigmatic interaction involving an 'M' tearing apart a 'Big S', utterly perplexing! That's when I decided to exit; it’s fair to say that world is quite chaotic.