Gay & Lesbian Online 4th Edition [Paperback]

Jeff Dawson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

Explosive and constantly changing, the World Wide Web is almost unchartable, and all people who try had better know their stuff and be prepared to update regularly. Fortunately, Jeff Dawson is a man who knows the territory, and in a lively, easy-to-read style, he plays tour guide in this newly updated edition of his best-selling guide. 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. Join the exploding queer presence in cyberspace in this user-friendly, incredibly detailed, and enormously entertaining manual for people at all levels of computer skills.

Jeff Dawson is the author with Cleve Jones of Stitching a Revolution and has written for Macworld, The Net, and MacHome Journal, and writes a monthly Web resources column for Poz magazine. He lives in Northern California.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Let us all drop to our knees and give thanks to Jeff Dawson, a brave man of apparently inexhaustible energy who has put together a guide to over 3,700 Web sites of all things queer on the Internet. The fourth edition of this deservedly bestselling series, Gay & Lesbian Online, is both "practical" and "an invaluable tool," as the publishers tell us, but it's also amusing and unexpectedly thorough, including alarming sites on the radical right and their plans to eliminate fun from America. Even if you find the Internet a tad overwhelming--much as my Aunt Bess did the first time she encountered a bidet in a Chicago hotel room, asking, "What in heaven's name do I do with it?"--Dawson's guide can lead you gently but firmly into the new world. Face it--some of us are still celebrating the invention of Wite-Out. It is time, as they say in every movie of the week, to let the healing begin. What, for example, is the latest part to pierce? What do lesbian gardeners recommend for planting during the California flood season? The mysteries are unfolding. --Jack Connolly

From Library Journal

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Alyson Books; 4 edition (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555835813
• ISBN-13: 978-1555835811
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,501,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars never never land, January 4, 2000

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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."

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Reference Tool for the "Gay" Community, April 15, 1999

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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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1.0 out of 5 stars Jeff Dawson - Gaylord, October 11, 2006

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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.