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WHEN AOL WAS GAYOL

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It ed to be that gay men who wanted to meet other gay men had limed optns. Now, lns of gay men wa le--not to pay a ver charge or orr a drk, but to get to the men-for-men chat rooms on Ameri Onle. Acrdg to timat by Inter mographers, 20% of AOL's 21 ln subscribers are gay, and at nearly all hours, the men-for-men chat rooms are filled wh guys lookg for Mr.

B-Gay Chat. B-Gay isn't the prettit of chats but has a long history and is part of an onle gay news webse, publishg rmatn on love, travel, datg advice, and current events. You n expect to fd about 50 gay chatters here at any given time.

B-Gay has ed a number of different chat software packag over the years and as of now they are g Rumble Talk which allows for webm age even though the terfase seems very basic. Gay Chat Zone. GayChatZone is a chat se merged wh a personals se.

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When AOL Was GayOL. From primive dial-up BBSs to AOL (aka “GayOL”) to datg s like and PlaOut, onle life has always had a strong LGBTQ ponent that sometim preced wir adoptn of a new technology.

(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.

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