Aimed at a gay audience, the DaddyBear app caused controversy when it determined that HIV-positive people were not welcome on the app. Promoting the meeting of sugar daddies who want to play young bears, the creator of the platform blatantly discriminated against people with the HIV virus, ignoring all medical studies on the disease. “If you are worried about meeting gay men living with HIV, you can feel relieved with our app, because we are trying our best to ensure that every user you meet is healthy and HIV-free,” says a representative of the app . In an interview with the website Into, the company's CEO, who goes by the name Justin, said that “no one would want to date people living with HIV unless they have the virus”. “Most gay sugar daddies are not living with HIV, so they don't want to bring home the unwanted memories. However, we support that gay men living with HIV have the right to date other gay men living with HIV. But rich and successful gay sugar daddies don’t want to date HIV-positive gay men, which is why we launched this app to meet their needs,” he said. However, he did not say how he will check users' serology. With information from the Guia Gay SP website
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