  Online dating and hookup platforms have fundamentally changed people's
day-to-day practices of sex and love-but exist in tension with older social and
medicolegal norms. This is particularly the case for people with HIV, who are
frequently stigmatized, surveilled, ostracized and incarcerated because of
their status. Efforts to make intimate platforms "work" for HIV frequently
focus on user-to-user interactions and disclosure of one's HIV status but elide
both the structural forces at work in regulating sex and the involvement of the
state in queer lives. In an effort to foreground these forces and this
involvement, we analyze the approaches that intimate platforms have taken in
designing for HIV disclosure through a content analysis of 49 current
platforms. We argue that the implicit reinforcement of stereotypes about who
HIV is or is not a concern for, along with the failure to consider state
practices when designing for data disclosure, opens up serious risks for
HIV-positive and otherwise marginalized people. While we have no panacea for
the tension between disclosure and risk, we point to bottom-up, communal, and
queer approaches to design as a way of potentially making that tension easier
to safely navigate.
