Big Gay Nerds

Contents:

• 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.

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. 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.

WHEN AOL WAS GAYOL

As a large dience of ls technil gays and lbians got onle, “everythg explod, ” Mark says.

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. Gay spac equently cross-pollated wh other areas of geek culture.

'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI

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.

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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. “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. ” He wanted to see if there might be a few other people out there who are gay and also GarciaCourty of Alex GarciaHe was astound when, wh s first year, Gay Geeks grew om a handful of lol guys to a worldwi muny of about 10, 000 said the fn of what mak a Gay Geek is pretty broad and clive, cludg, but not limed to, ic book nerds, Pokémon lovers and every type of gamer — be they tabletop, PC or, seven years later, the group has more than 50, 000 members — a membership tone passed jt this week. K., Canada, Atralia and Brazil — ’s send, third, fourth, and fifth largt untri of membership, has acplished more than jt fdg a few other gays like him: He has built one of the premier plac onle for people like him to fd each Col O’ O'Neill, who was abandoned by his fay Seattle at 15 bee he was gay, found a new fay through Alex Garcia's Gay Geeks Facebook group.

” Like many gay people, his fay nsists maly of those he has chosen rather than those wh whom he shar a bloodle. Shortly after fdg and jog Gay Geeks, O'Neill me across Sam while scrollg a popular weekly thread lled “Selfie Saturday. Much of what is marketed to gay men be hyper-sexualized, and the group wanted to avoid havg s social media acunts bee feeds of shirtls guys.

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”Col O'Neill (right) and Sam (left) met through the Gay Geeks Facebook group, and they have been married for one year. “Sam's fay accepted me pletely to their fay, and has been so amazg to have them my life, ” he said the group's membership is prised of mostly gay men, but do have a small, but active, number of lbians, too.

Startg Gay Geeks (and now a host of other groups foced on geeks, beg gay and general fandom) has also proved to be a fulfillg enavor for the group's founr. Together, they play the science fictn anchise’s first regularly appearg gay uple aboard the U.

And of urse, they'll be fans who say, ‘”Oh, they’re killg off the gays aga!

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Ennis: As a pneer Star Trek, terms of beg an out gay man, playg a gay character, a relatnship wh another man, do you see that the unfoldg of havg non-bary characters like Adira and a trans character, even a ghostly versn, how do that make you feel terms of the craft and and our muny?

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