It is probably the biggest dating site in the world, with users in Afghanistan and Aruba, Namibia, Nicaragua and Nigeria. Founded in 1999 from a tiny office in south-west London by Frisch and his partner Henry Badenhorst, the site now has almost 4m registered subscribers in 23 countries, 1.1m of them in Britain. For them, Frisch's death is a keenly-felt tragedy.īy any measure, Gaydar is a phenomenon. But to millions of men around the world, Gaydar is much more than that, providing a safe, non-judgemental place to meet, talk and arrange sex that might not have been so readily accessible before. To those who have never used its services to chat to gay men or to arrange assignations for sex, Gaydar remains a relatively obscure website, arguably best known for a number of half-hearted scandals that the tabloid press has attempted to kickstart involving (usually obscure) political figures. It is unclear whether he jumped from his balcony or fell, though police are not looking for anyone else in connection with his death.
The emergency services were called around lunchtime, but Frisch was pronounced dead at the scene. The tributes are addressed to Gary Frisch, one of the founders of the gay dating site .uk, who died last Saturday on the pavement below his eighth floor riverside apartment in Battersea, south London.