Gay Dating Sites

Many dating sites have gay members. Therefore we have split this page into two, with Specialist Gay sites listed first.

Specialist Gay Sites

Details:
Online dating and personals for gay men looking for love, long term friendships/relationships.

Features:
Chat room
Unlimited contacts
Video, voice or text instant messaging
Favourites list
Personal inbox
Video profiles (optional)

Free Elements: Create a profile and search for free. To make contact you will have to subscribe.

Costs:

Gay.com
www.gay.com

Countries: This link takes you to the UK gay.com site, but there are links to gay.com in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the USA and gay.comLatino.

Details:
This is a community website for gay men and women, with over 3 million subscribed users. You can find news on gay issues, entertainment news, travel news, lifestyle and more.

Features:
Chat rooms, video chat, personals (over 2 million profiles online), free gay.com email addresses, message boards, competitions, offers, web guide, e-cards, scene guide, exhibitions, DVD rental.

Free Elements: All

Costs: Membership is free.

GayFriendfinder
http://gayfriendfinder.com 

Countries: International

Details:
Website dedicated to Gay singles, from the well known Friendfinder stable. Thousands of members worldwide looking for romance, frindship, pen pals and activity partners.

Features:
Online magazine with articles written by the members themselves.
Chat rooms
Email
Flash Instant Messaging

Free Elements: Much of the site is free, (you can chat, send instant messages, have access to the magazine and browse) but non paying members are limited in their ability to make contact, read full profiles or view full sized pictures.

Costs:

Details:
Online dating and personals for gay women looking for love, long term friendships/relationships.

Features:
Chat Room
Unlimited contacts
Favourites list
Interest List
Personal inbox
Instant Messaging (Video, Voice or Text)
Video profiles (optional)

Free Elements: Create a profile, search and show and interest for free. To make contact you will have to subscribe.

Costs:

Details:
PlanetOut has around 500,000 members

Features:
Private email system
Chat rooms
Message boards
Instant messaging
Newsletters

Free Elements: Basic services are free, including chat, message boards and replying to members mails, but you cannot initiate contact.
For additional services such as initiating contact and mail forwarding you have to become a paying member.

Costs: 3 day trial $4.95.
Premium Membership: 1 month $12.95, 3 months $29.95, 1 year $69.95.
Auto subscription renewal - don't forget to cancel if you no longer need your membership.

People Fishing
www.peoplefishing.com  
Countries: International

Details: An upbeat dating network with 19 dating communities to choose from. These are: general, Jewish dating, Christian Dating, Fitness Dating, Adult Dating, College Dating, PetPeople Dating, Soul Dating, Hispanic Dating, Asian Dating, Gay Dating, BB Dating, Parent Dating, Silver Dating, Military Dating, Veggie Dating
Join the network and then choose one or more of the communities to join. Great value, but beware, the registration process is quite long.

Features:
Browse photos
Search profiles and send email
e-cards
Chat
Instant Messenger
Dating Magazine
Whos Online

Free Elements: Free to join, create a profile/upload photos, browse/search members. To chat and send messages you will have to upgrade.

Costs: 1 month subscription $19.95 rising to $119.95 for a 12 month membership ($9.99 per month).

Date the UK
www.datetheuk.com 

Countries: United Kingdom

Details:
We very much like the look of this site and what's more it is 100% free for women, with hundreds of thousands of UK online personals.

Features:
Find a date who lives ten, twenty five, fifty or a hundred miles from you in London, Glasgow, Leeds or Birmingham.
Matching service
Online flirting
Picture profiles
Secure e-mail.
Live chat service
"who is online" feature
SMS dating service
You have to register before you can carry out any searches.

Free Elements: Browse for free.

Costs: Membership fees start at £19.99 for a 30 day pass.

Details:
Nice website with a bright, breezy and humourous approach. Open to members 18 up. Will typically appeal to single successful professionals but all are welcome.

Features:
Full Membership: Unlimited messaging, top of the search lists, contact new members first, linger messages, powerfull searches, "Matchbot", e-cards, compatibility scores, upload more photos, access all photos (ie you don't have to wait a week for approval)

Free Elements: All basic facilities are free. Free search of members before you have to register.
You can you to post your profile, search for other members and send messages, although messaging for free members is restricted.

Costs: Enhanced membership £9.98 per month automatic renewal, £69.99 per year, £24.99 for 3 months, 1 month £12.49.

YouCanGetMe
www.youcangetme.com

Countries: Countries: UK but international members welcome.

Details:
High tec site where you can see, and hear your partner before disclosing personal details and meeting them.

Features:
Instant messaging, audio & video chat rooms, internal mail service, search for your perfect partner using their unique "see me, hear me, meet me" technology
YouCanGetMe recently launched an mms upload service which allows users to upload pictures to their profiles from their mobile phones

Free Elements: Join for free. However if you want to communicate with other members you will have to upgrade. Membership is free for women.

Costs: £19.95 per month. Women free.