In a lively, easy-to-read style, Jeff Dawson plays tour guide as he points readers to on-line resources for AIDS, activism, bears, books, chatrooms, dating, domestic partners, gardening, law, legal issues, and beyond. Encyclopedic in scope, this book charts the entire spectrum of gay and lesbian interests as found in the ever-growing digital world of the Internet.
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With URLs for everything from activist organizations to youth resources, Jeff Dawson's site directory is a practically indispensable reference tool for the online gay or lesbian. (There's also an extensive section listing sites with transgender-themed material, although a similar section for bisexuals is curiously lacking.) Dawson also includes extended reviews of high-profile sites for organizations like PlanetOut, GLAAD, and Digital Queers, as well as smaller but intriguing groups like the Queer Skinhead Brotherhood. Chances are that if you poke around this book long enough, parts of it are going to end up in your browser's bookmarks file.
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Dawson, a freelance writer and former editor for PC Home Journal and Mac Home Journal, has compiled the first trade guide to lesbian and gay cyberspace. Focusing primarily on the World Wide Web, the guide consists of chapters on a wide range of topics, each containing several breezily written paragraphs followed by a long list of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). As such the book reads more like a hot list than a guide?a format better suited to a web page, where users can simply click to go to the featured site. Annotations would have served the print format better. Currency is a problem facing any book on the Internet, and this title is no exception: Several of the sites mentioned have already disappeared or changed addresses in the few months since publication. More comprehensive and up-to-date information on lesbian and gay Internet resources can be identified using such queer-oriented search facilities as the Rainbow Query at GL WEB .?Ellen Greenblatt, SUNY, Buffalo
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Gay & Lesbian Online, 3rd Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web (Paperback)
What fun can be had spending endless evenings typing in addresses of various Web sites that can no longer be found. If this is gay and lesbian life online, then we are extinct. Perhaps this reflects the changeable and flaky nature of gay culture, but the reader might be better off saving the money and doing a creative search, sans book. They will certainly come up with more than "Not Found"..."Not Found"..."Not Found."
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An Excellent Reference Tool for the "Gay" Community,
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This review is from: Gay & Lesbian Online, 3rd Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web (Paperback)
While doing research for my book, I came across Gay and Lesbian Online quite by accident. Thinking that there might be some useful information in this book, I thought I would give it a try and hope for the best.Boy, I am glad I did! With technology changing the landscape of information gathering, this book is a must for the bisexual,gay,transgendered,and lesbian community and should be on every bookshelf across America! Kudos to Mr. Jeff Dawson!
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Jeff Dawson - Gaylord,
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This review is from: Gay & Lesbian Online, 5th Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web (Paperback)
Why waste valuable seconds running a Google search when you could spend just hours reading this book? Jeff has clearly outdone himself with this latest offering. However, after reading this book I was confused as to where the information on the Chicago Bears was located. I went to several websites but could only find men who appear to enjoy the company of other men. Mr. Dawson clearly knows his stuff and his talents with man mustard seem to be beyond compare. This book has forced me to re-evaluate my life and lifestyle and, after doing so, it remains unchanged.
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