eHarmony.com agreed Tuesday to pay $500,000 and make its website more gay friendly to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by gays in California nearly three years ago.
The settlement in Los Angeles Court is pending a judge’s approval, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The eHarmony site currently provides links for Christian, black, Jewish, Hispanic, senior and local dating.
The company was founded by Neil Clark Warren, a psychologist and evangelical Christian, and had previously claimed that its match-making technology was designed only for heterosexual couples — rejecting users seeking same-sex partners.
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As part of the agreement, eHarmony will add a “gay and lesbian dating” category to its main website that will send users to Compatible Partners, a site eHarmony already had launched for gays as part of an unrelated settlement with New Jersey’s attorney general in 2009.
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California residents who have filed written complaints with the company will receive $4,000 each from the settlement funds.
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