Gay.com

Experience. Encounter. Enjoy.

Rating: 5

Gay.com is the largest gay and lesbian online dating site with millions of active world-wide members.

Gay.com is part of the Media Inc. network of companies, which produces and distributes niche content across all platforms worldwide (such as The Advocate, the world’s leading gay news source; Out, the world’s leading gay fashion and lifestyle brand or SheWired.com, the world’s fastest-growing site for women gay, straight, and in between). As such, Gay.com offers, in addition to online dating, other gay community related information, entertainment, live chat, photo library, news...

The thriving social networking component allows the gay members to chat, instant message, or share photos and videos in a safe environment.

Gay.com has the nicest web design that we've come across among the gay dating sites.

You can use the IM, send messages, send friend request, add to hot list, block, add notes...

You can even join group chat, send private IMs and watch some videos for free.

You'll find advertisements of their other products (The Advocate, Out...) throughout the site, which could be either annoying or a suitable complementation to the site.

Costs :
Full access to the site costs from $8/month (or you can try it for 1 week first for $6.99)

Gay-PARSHIP.com

Find someone really right for you

Rating: 4,5

PARSHIP is already trusted by ten million singles in Europe who are looking for a long term relationship, and now they are offering a specific dating site for gays and lesbians in the UK at uk.gay-parship.com

Gay-PARSHIP, home to nearly 350,000 members, has a very good psychological test to match singles, whether gays or lesbians. After you have donde the online test you'll start getting match suggestions via Email and PARSHIP's interface. So you can just relax and wait until you receive a passing match for you. The keyword here is "Deep compatibility".

You can take Gay-PARSHIP with you with PARSHIP's mobile application.

Each profile and picture are checked by their team to ensure that members are genuine.

Gay-PARSHIP is used by all kinds of gay and lesbian singles, but they tend to be professionals who value discretion and security.

PARSHIP is rather expensive which, on the other hand, guarantees high-class partner suggestions.

If you are not looking for a lasting relationship, this is not the place for you.

Costs :
Compatibility test, register, browse and iPhone-App are free. Unlimited use from £39.90 for one month.

Gaydar.co.uk

What you want, when you want it

Rating: 3,5

Gaydar.co.uk has been the home of over 6 million gay, bi and curious guys for the last ten years.

Modern design with lots of functionalities such as "send winks", express your opinion about another guy ("he's hot", "he's nice", "would like to get to know", "likes me!", "not my type", send messages, block a user, see photos and videos, GPS locations, travel plans...

You can take it with you wherever you are with the GaydarMobile app. Members pay with a 'Pay As You Cruise' method.

There are some relative big advertisements there, but they are usually topic related.

It can be a bit confusing for some people that you can only access the products and payments application after you are logged in to one of their other applications (which is not very clearly specified.)

Costs :
Full membership from $13/month..

PinkCupid.com

Lesbian dating and singles

Rating: 3,5

Cupid Media is a market leader in many of its international markets and niche dating sites, being one of them the lesbian dating market.

Modern, user-friendly design, with multi-lingual interface and translation tools that break-down barriers enabling you to find other lesbian singles, whether locally in UK or worldwide.

You can browse lesbian singles profiles and communicate with them via chat, email, video or instant messaging.

On your profile page you get possible matches according to your criteria. One thing we find outstanding is that they try to educate members about scammers and how to protect themselves against them.

Costs :
Create profile and search for free. Full membership costs from £7.50/month.

GayRomeo.com

Mr Right may be waiting just around the corner

Rating: 3

GayRomeo.com, also known as PlanetRomeo, started locally as a small network of friends in Berlin and has become one of the main sites for the gay and bisexual male and transgender community worldwide.

Health is an important aspect for the owners of GayRomeo.com, that's why they partnered with leading specialist health advice organisations in various countries to deliver clear information and advice on PlanetRomeo.

They even created the charity “PlanetRomeo Foundation” to give support to a number of gay community projects and good causes.

The operators receive around 100 faker reports from users every day and they say that they deactivate or delete around 2/3 of those profiles. Keep this in mind and help them maintain a real community by reporting other fakes.

You can check the activities guide to keep updated about what's going on in your area and take it with you with the Gayromeo mobile application.

The design seems a bit robotic to us and could have a better user interface. Also, don't expect so many British members as at the other main gay dating sites.

Costs :
Although you can do some things for free, not everything is free. The full access to all features costs from €3.74/month.