If social media can help improve our social and work lives, why not our intimate lives too? Combining social media with real-life hardware, Kiiroo offers people the chance to actually touch their partner online – making virtual sex very, very real.

“So, do you have a vagina?” is a chat-up line that gay transgender men on Grindr are all too familiar with. The hooking-up app may seem inclusive of its trans users, but their experiences on the platform range from being fetishised to being used as sources of information.

At a bar in Seoul, tablet computers have become modern-day Cupids. Love-hungry youths take photos and write brief descriptions of themselves on these portable computers, which are linked to other tablets and shared with prospective partners.

Many brands in Mexico are still hesitant to be linked to the LGBT community. However, considering the estimated 5.2 million LGBT people living in Mexico spend on average 10 to 15% more than heterosexuals, international and national companies are starting to take note.