Gerard (@kirwin) • Collective gay friends app

Gerard @kirwin

Former teacher, former swimmer, former American, former hetero

For my dissertation, I’m working on a video game (amazing sentence) using an AI engine (it’s part of the assignment) to produce scenarios and dialogue for a game that can act like a replacement for corporate training.

Hello gay people in my phone, wondering which level of facial hair looks best on me. Thank you in advance

I’m giving hot jock fantasy

“Post this on your gay app saying ‘giving my little boyfriend a hug’.”

“You should post this on that gay app you use, it’ll get a tonne of likes”

Got the moody stairwells and underground stations photography on lockdown but need some work on gym selfies (dreadful lighting doesn’t help).

Not to be a cop or anything but if you’re posting other people’s pictures or art, can you please credit the artist? Found an account on here posting some of my IG moots work and don’t want this to turn into Pinterest for guys with abs. Most people on here are great at it btw. Thanks

Got surprised by my bf’s family with a tour of an abandoned part of a Tube station. Perfect day out.

Went to Ireland for my bf’s dad’s wedding and got this cool photo in an alley.

Accidental power stance

Just popping in to say hey

Went to a gaming conference today because that’s what I do now.

Born to be a British twink with a 28 inch waist, forced to be an American dad bod with hair everywhere

Some more of my photography. Can’t whore myself out all the time haha

When in Rome, I guess... (Mixed metaphor with the Adonis comment, I’m aware)

In an app of Adonises, I am but a man

Life do feel like this sometimes. You’re just going along into the void. Nobody and nothing there but there could be somebody and something there too.

Lost 10 followers on Insta for this

Sometimes I’m in front of the camera.

Still trying to figure out how this app works, like what are the norms, what’s a connection, etc. It’s a bit disorientating, like this hallway in Bank Tube station. I post most of my work on Insta (follows are always appreciated) but really want to be “holding space” for this space haha

There’s a connection between my liminal, sparse photography and the loneliness I have experienced in my life, some of it related to my queerness, some not. I didn’t make this connection for years but now I almost lean into it.

This app is a little overwhelming.😅 This is one of my favourite photos, shot in the Tube on the way home. Some guy, wearing a shirt from some chain store, he had just put on his headphones. And then the train arrived.

Hey, my name is Gerard. I’m a student, studying machine learning for games design, living in the south of England. My passion is photography, mostly liminal spaces and moody night photos so I will probably post more of those than thirst traps (sorry boys) but I want to feel more confident so...maybe.