Grindr set to host its first White House Correspondents’ dinner party

Grindr is getting in on the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner action.

The LGBTQ dating app will be joining the crowded party scene ahead of the annual WHCA dinner on April 25.

Grindr will host its inaugural “White House Correspondents’ dinner Weekend Party” the night before the main event, a night which has been not-so-affectionately dubbed “Nerd Prom” over the years.

An invitation to the fete in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood promises to “bring together policymakers, journalists, and LGBTQ community leaders as we toast the First Amendment.”

“Grindr represents a global community with real stakes in Washington. The issues being debated here — HIV funding, privacy and online safety, LGBTQ+ family rights — are daily life for our community,” Joe Hack, Grindr’s head of global government affairs, told ITK in a statement when asked about what inspired the company to join the lineup of events tied to the Correspondents’ dinner.

“Nobody does connections like Grindr, and WHCD weekend is the most iconic place in the country to make them. We figured it was time to host,” Hack said.

In an interview last year, Grindr CEO George Arison said the dating app aimed to be a “place that is welcoming to everybody” regardless of political affiliation.

“No matter what their political views are, people who are gay should be welcome on Grindr and we want them to have a really good experience,” Arison said at the time, confirming reports that there was a “significant spike in usage” on the app in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the Republican National Convention in 2024.

After bucking tradition and shunning the Correspondents’ dinner throughout his first term in office, President Trump said in March that he planned to attend this year’s gala at the Washington Hilton hotel.

Trump, in a Truth Social post, vowed to make the gathering — typically attended by thousands of journalists along with lawmakers and celebrities — the “greatest, hottest, and most spectacular dinner, of any kind, ever!”

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