Perceptions: INTERNET

Queer multimedia online [news report from West Hollywood, California, concerning Gay Wired as "front-runner of Queer Internet sites"].
P124 (v16n7)[misnumbered v16n6 on contents page](Oct. 28, 1998): 19 (26cm.)

Chisel gets axed [newsnote that company owning gay website, Chisel.com, raided by Vancouver police August 20, 1999; details].
P131 (v17n6)(Sept. 15, 1999): 26 (15cm.)

A dangerous game [report from Los Angeles about a shoot gallery-style game "featured in the Toy Machine area of Skateboard.com, a Web site for skateboarding enthusiasts"; introductory screen reads "Kill Ed Templeton!... Just shoot at Ed as he skates around and tells you what a fag he is -- just like real life...."; GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) "has made repeated attempts to contact Tum Yeto, owner of Web site, but no response; other details].
P133 (v17n8)(Dec. 8, 1999): 22 (16cm.)

Easing the holiday blues [New York report on an Initiative launched Nov. 15, 2000 by GayHealth.com, "the first and foremost health and wellness site for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community"; two-month-long GayHealth.com Depression and Anxiety Initiative to offer "pertinent and helpful information to the site's hundreds of thousands of users"; depression can be especially powerful during holiday season; is ongoing problem for gay/lesbian community, "fuelled by anti-gay discrimination and hate"; GayHealth.com founded in 1999 by top US lesbian/gay medical professionals to provide worldwide help; other details].
P141 (v18n8)(Dec. 6, 2000): 28 (25cm.)

Lesbian survivor website [newsnote about Rainbow Hope, website for and by lesbian survivors; includes page for couples who are both survivors and one for partners of survivors; etc.].
P143 (v19n2)(March 14, 2001): 25 (18cm.)

Gay commercial archive web site [brief newsnote that the Commercial Closet launched in New York, May 7, 2001; site has "several hundred" advertisements from around the world and from as far back as 1970; many never seen; designed to show how gays/lesbians portrayed; site address: www.commercialcloset.org ].
P145 (v19n4)(June 6, 2001): 25 (10cm.)

Hate/bias website [launched in Calgary to enable people to report hate or bias crimes; www.reporthate.com is "primarily directed at youth to anonymously report incidents"; operated by coalition of community-based groups; other details].
P150 (v20n1)(Jan. 30, 2002): 14 (20cm.)

GLHS on-line [Gay and Lesbian Health Services, Saskatoon, continues building Web site, "which has been in operation for the past few months"; some activities through and plans for the site].
P151 (v20n2)(March 13, 2002): 11 (21cm.)

Parenting resource [Los Angeles report on launch of ProudParent.com, "a new online community dedicated to gay & lesbian parents"; details and contact].
P152 (v20n3)(April 24, 2002): 28 (31cm.)

2 million MO's and counting [report on the growing popularity of Internet "matchmaker" sites; "homophobia is cited as the major reason for the success of queer Internet chatrooms and matchmaker sites"; etc.].
P159 (v21n2)(March 5, 2003): 21 (19cm.)

Big gayme hunter [author develops the metaphor of the primal hunt for prey in a description of the attraction to men of Internet pornography]. By Kelly Ries.
P163 (v21n6)(Sept. 10, 2003): 5 (42cm.)

[First listing on Perceptions community groups ("In Your Area") pages for: Gay Sask, province-wide Web site, with Web address given].
P163 (v21n6)(Sept. 10, 2003): 16 (1/2cm.)

On the net [report that a Web site is being developed with resources for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and questioning youth; Calgary's Youth Resource Committee, the Cultural Resources Unit of Calgary Police Service, and "numerous gay and gay-supportive groups" have come together to develop the site, which "will be on-line by June of 2004"; other details and contacts].
P165 (v21n8)(Dec. 3, 2003): 10 (29cm.)

Getting It On Online: Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity. By John Edward Campbell. (book review)
P166 (v22n1)(Jan. 28, 2004): 14 (31cm.)

Gay by God [American company, Bashert Ministries, Inc., "has launched an educational effort promoting the possibility of being both Christian and gay"; their Web site, www.GaybyGod.org , is an online guide to locating affirming churches, finding books, and locating other welcoming Web sites; also offers support for church leaders; etc.].
P166 (v22n1)(Jan. 28, 2004): 28 (16cm.)

Shoe business ["world's largest lesbian website," www.shoe.org , has produced "novel way of raising lesbian visibility and comradeship"; details around suggestion of International SHOE Day, the first of which will be March 4, 2004].
P166 (v22n1)(Jan. 28, 2004): 29 (22cm.)

Resources for sexual diversity [report on the new University of Saskatchewan Library Web site, titled "Saskatchewan Resources for Sexual Diversity"; links to library holdings of gay/lesbian books and journals, guides to manuscripts in various Saskatchewan archival institutions, community history pages with a four-part history of gay Saskatoon and a thirty-year chronology of events, a searchable electronic index to the gay magazine Perceptions, photos, songs, links to related sites, etc.; co-coordinator of Web site project: Janet Catterall, Special Collections Librarian; Web site address; etc.].
P170 (v22n5)(July 21, 2004): 11 (41cm.)

Saskatchewan 'lesbian' novel [author, named djinn fissure, plans Web serialization of her novel, Sappho's Child; "new chapter will be posted each week or so..., but not until the required number of readers sign up"; details of novel and of marketing method].
P172 (v22n7)(Oct. 27, 2004): 22 (35cm.)