What better way to spend Sunday 20th May than dressing up like royalty, taking a stroll with thousands of like-minded people past London’s most iconic sites and raising vital funds to support people living with HIV in poverty?

You never know, you might even meet your Prince Charming! *

Walk For Life, Terrence Higgins Trust’s annual 10K  sponsored walk is back for it’s 23^rd outing and this year there’s a very regal feel in the air with a right royal Kings and Queens theme.

Register to join us now at www.walkforlife.co.uk and help to support some of the most vulnerable people living with HIV.

Lookout for the hot Gaydar promo team who will be handing out lots of goodies to keep you entertained while you walk. They’re a strong bunch too, in case you happen to faint into one of their biceps…

The 10K walk is manageable for even the highest heels, and only requires enthusiasm, the breakfast of a King and a desire to do some good with little more than your fabulous feet!

We can’t wait to see you in all your royal glory on 20 May!

*If you don’t meet him there you can always check in to Gaydar!

The votes are in, they’re counted and we can confirm the winning photo from the Dean Stockings competition.

The envelope please…

The Winner of the Dean Stockings competition is…

Closely followed by:

The following Gaydar members have won a one week Gaydar upgrade:

• thisiskit
• Joe-en-stgo
• A1978
• Robman1
• Felixng
• oursoncal1
• akuk29
• somewhatlost
• vvtonyvv
• lukpez
• vdg81
• akira82

With thousands of instant social websites, it’s easy to forget all about the past where a tweet was a noise made, Facebook didn’t exist and pinning was something you would do to your hems.

And then Gaydar launched in 1999.
For once, there was an online network for gay men where everything was instant – with features such as “who’s online?” and “instant messaging”.

Since then there have been 6 million registered users, many hookups and many heart warming stories of those who found love in this space.

Take Dave and Llewellyn as an example.
Llewellyn was wanting to learn how to kite-surf and had clearly stated so on his Gaydar profile. Dave had recently taken up kite-surfing and was keen to meet another person to share his interest… for kite-surfing.

After sending a few messages back and forth they met up for breakfast and a kite-surfing lesson.
Llewellyn managed to drag his kite right over cactus bushes (ouch!) on the beach in Durban and instead of a trip to the hospital, they went home together.

That first date was nearly 8 years ago. Since then they’ve purchased their own aeroplane, Dave has his license and Llewellyn is in training to get his too.

They’ve recently completed a 10 day tour of South Africa and have plenty of stories and happy snaps on their blog.

Still active on Gaydar they give the following advice for those looking to find love on Gaydar:

Don’t under-sell yourself. There are million of guys out there looking for someone like you and an enormous number have Gaydar profiles.

Thanks for sharing your story Dave and Llewellyn, good luck with the flying.

Stay out of cactuses won’t you Llewellyn?

If you found love on Gaydar, share your story with us here.

A few months ago we brought you photos by talented Australian photographer Paul Gunn on the Gaydar homepage (see the winning shot).

It’s time for a new showcase by another photographer, who has done shoots with Boy George, Toyah Willcox and most recently a promo video for Samantha Fox. Introducing Dean Stockings – photographer to the stars!

We want to know what you think. Here’s how it works:

• Vote for your favourite using the number listed below the picture.
  The voting form is at the bottom of the page.
• If you’re one of the lucky guys who votes for the winning image, you win yourself (apart from a good perv) a FREE one week Gaydar upgrade!

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Hello,

On Friday the 13th (of all days) Gaydar’s primary server suffered a hardware failure. As a result the site automatically shut down to allow our engineers time to restore Gaydar from a recent back up, but due to the size of Gaydar this took a number of hours to complete.

Service was restored late Friday afternoon and continued through to Saturday morning when essential and necessary maintenance took place until lunchtime. Sadly Gaydar suffered a similar issue on Tuesday evening until the early hours of Wednesday morning. In total Gaydar was unavailable for approximately 15 hours.

Our engineers are still onsite replacing hardware and restoring Gaydar to its full capacity and as Gaydar is running from an earlier back up you may notice messages that you previously read now being marked unread, or recently added Friends and Favourites not appearing. If you recently uploaded photos these may take a couple of days to be reviewed and approved – if you notice photos missing from your profile please upload them again.

During the outage we regularly updated the official GaydarBlog.com and Gaydar’s Facebook and Twitter pages. You can always find out the latest news and information on these pages so I recommend adding them to your favourite sites.

At all times the integrity of Gaydar’s security has been paramount and yours and our six million member profiles are safe and secure.

As promised, we are in the process of upgrading accounts. As a gesture of goodwill and to thank our loyal customers for their patience during the recent outages all Members and Commercial Members will receive three extra days on their membership – additional days will automatically be added in the next 24 hours. As Guest membership is free, these accounts will not receive an upgrade.

Please accept our apologies and we promise we are working around the clock to resume the high level of service that you and we demand. Look out for further news in your Gaydar inbox later today.

Yours sincerely,

Simon Johnson

Product Manager – Gaydar