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- GAY NERDS
- WHEN AOL WAS GAYOL
- 'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
- BIG GAY NERDS
- GAY NERD
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(In 1988, Jenngs also started Homore, one of the earlit queerre z. While many puter-oriented BBSs attracted an dience of software pirat, porn sharers, and would-be hackers, a signifint number of BBSs for gay men also spng up.
'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
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Mark, a gay rights activist sce the 1970s, told me that he disvered a gay BBS lled the Backroom the 1980s via an ad the back of the New York Advertisg and Communitns Network newsletter.
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Gay BBSs like the Backroom and Doug’s Den were not functnally different om others, but the discsn was different: “popular plac to go, cisg areas, polil stuff, people tryg to sell thgs, ” acrdg to Mark. As a large dience of ls technil gays and lbians got onle, “everythg explod, ” Mark says.
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In chat rooms, “the overall nerd vibe was que lower as well, ” says Raymond Cha, edor of the gay-nerd publitn FAQNP.
AOL allowed and even enuraged the creatn of gay-themed chat rooms by topic and regn; by 1999, an timated third of so-lled GayOL’s chat rooms were LGBTQ. As a sign-of-the-tim Salon article om 1999 put , “Commentg on how gay ctomers are g the service to sre is probably beyond the spe of even the most progrsive rporate culture.
” While gay male spac rarely attracted women, lbian spac equently felt the need to lim participatn exclively to women.
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Gay spac equently cross-pollated wh other areas of geek culture. Where other progrsive groups of the time generally jt distributed rmatn, Digal Queers actually did grass-roots anizg and upgrad the IT of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force through a donatn mpaign.
Erich Nagler chronicled the progrsn of gay social works om AOL to to Manhunt his piece “My Life Cisg Onle. In the 2000s, OkCupid and Craigslist me on the scene and, by beg explicly clive of gay and lbian datg, gradually supersed the olr s. Yet even after he fally started meetg gay iends five years after g out, he still didn't feel like they had anythg mon beyond beg attracted to men.
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“For me, was about wonrg ‘Are there other gays like me?
Gay people "that are really to vio gam, really to ic books, really to thgs like 'Star Trek'? ”The Seattle rint end up takg to Facebook to start a group he’d ll “Gay Geeks.