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Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Local URL
The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website
https://eminism.org/
Year Founded (approximate)
2001
Last Year Active (approximate)
2026
Exterior References
This scrape of <a href="https://eminism.org/">https://eminism.org/</a> was completed 06-16-2026 using <a href="https://www.httrack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HTTrack</a>. It includes copies of all pages and files currently available. While the page has been archived by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, this scrape is intended to independently preserve the site, as well as to provide the site as a possible corpus for textual analysis. <br /><br />To browse the mirrored site (.zip archive), open index.html in the top-level folder. WARC available by request - simply email admin AT queerdigital.com.<br /><br /><strong>Checksum (SHA-256): </strong>A50B192C83E6DAE665EFF2417B431D8C0A84D3C97ACD9D7DB9B2182E8FE15DF3<br />--<br /><br /><strong>Bio (from the site):</strong> "Eminism.org is a personal website of multi-issue social justice activist/writer/rogue intellectual Emi Koyama. Emi often writes and speaks out about feminism, sexual and domestic violence, sex work/trade and trafficking, queer and trans liberation, intersex and disability issues, among others." Koyama passed away in June 2026, and reflections on the impact of her scholarship can be found <a href="https://www.autostraddle.com/emi-koyama-in-memorium/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
eminism.org Web Scrape
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Emi Koyama
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Completed 06-16-2026
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
.zip archive or WARC (warc.gz, proccessed using <a href="https://coptr.digipres.org/index.php/Warcit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warcit</a>)
Language
A language of the resource
American English; Japanese
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Mailing List
E-mail Mailing Lists
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Transgender People
Year Founded (approximate)
1995
Last Year Active (approximate)
2019
Sponsor or Institutional Host
Organizations that hosted, sponsored, or maintained the forum
Hosted in York University's servers
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
Canadian English
Exterior References
<ul>
<li>Attached screenshot: Mentioned in <em>The Monarch Reader</em> (Issue 51). 1999.</li>
<li>Listing in <a href="http://www.qrd.org/qrd/trans/tgc-l">Queer Resource Directory</a></li>
<li>Mentioned in annotation on <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/3b591857h" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handout for JoAnn Roberts' 1995 Fantasia Fair workshop, "Navigating in Cyberspace."</a> </li>
<li>Discussed in Gilbert, Michael (Miqqi Alicia). "<a href="https://archive.org/details/transgendertapes9820unse/page/12/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prof. Miqqi Goes to Work [12 November 1996]</a>." <em>Transgender Tapestry</em> #98 (Summer 2002).</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Transgender Canada Listserv (TGC-L)
mailing list
transgender people
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Exterior References
<strong>Attached Files:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Screenshot of archived landing page for Chainsaw Records Message Board (archived April 13, 1997)</li>
</ul>
<strong>Links:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://eminism.org/michigan/19990608-chainsaw.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archived message board thread discussing Mr. Lady Records & The Butchies choice to perform at Michigan Womyn's Music Festival</a> (MWMF) (1999)</li>
<li>"<a href="https://www.portlandmercury.com/music/who-signs-their-graffiti-22602/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Who Signs Their Graffiti?</a>," Portland Mercury (Aug 3, 2000): Article on the implementation of user registration on the message board</li>
<li><a href="https://magazine.plazm.com/post-utopic-jd-samson-on-art-sincerity-and-the-l-word-bb10886f14b1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Post Utopic: JD Samson on Art, Sincerity, and the L Word."</a> <em>plazm magazine </em>#28. (2008): Interview with JD Samson that discusses message board and its impact</li>
<li><a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/19/think-out-loudnorthwest-punk-band-team-dresch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Pioneering Northwest punk band touring for 30th anniversary," Oregon Public Radio (Sept 19, 2025): </a>Interview with Team Dresch that discusses message board</li>
</ul>
Local URL
The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19970413015027/http://www.chainsaw.com/cgi-bin/post/post.pl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chainsaw Records Message Board (archived April 13, 1997)</a>
Year Founded (approximate)
1996
Last Year Active (approximate)
2007
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
queer youth
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Chainsaw Records Message Board and Chat
message board
queer people
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Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Local URL
The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website
https://www.ftmguide.org/
Year Founded (approximate)
March 2004
Last Year Active (approximate)
May 2017
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Trans men and trans masculine individuals
Exterior References
This scrape of <a href="https://www.ftmguide.org/">https://www.ftmguide.org/</a> was completed 7-30-2025 using <a href="https://www.httrack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HTTrack</a>. It includes copies of all pages and files currently available. While the page has been archived by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, this scrape is intended to independently preserve the site, as well as to provide the site as a possible corpus for textual analysis. <br /><br />To browse the mirrored site (.zip archive), open index.html in the top-level folder. WARC available by request - simply email admin AT queerdigital.com.<br /><br /><strong>Checksum (SHA-256): </strong>31c185c4a1716f670b8d9880cd7188eb2e3ce63aed2b34b5bcdc7eefdd93c759<br /><br />--<br /><br /><strong>Bio:</strong> Hudson's FTM Resource Guide is one of oldest resource sites available online. Inspired by Lou Sullivan's book <em>Information for the Female to Male Cross Dresser and Transsexual</em>, the guide offered information on a variety of topics relevant to trans men and trans masculine individuals.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Hudson's FTM Resource Guide Web Scrape
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Completed 07-30-2025
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
.zip archive or WARC (warc.gz, proccessed using <a href="https://coptr.digipres.org/index.php/Warcit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warcit</a>)
Language
A language of the resource
American English
website
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Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Local URL
The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website
https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/
Year Founded (approximate)
2000
Last Year Active (approximate)
2024
Exterior References
This scrape of <a href="https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/">https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/</a> was completed 7-30-2025 using <a href="https://www.httrack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HTTrack</a>. It includes copies of all pages and files currently available on the University of Michigan servers. While the page has been archived by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, this scrape is intended to independently preserve the site, as well as to provide the site as a possible corpus for textual analysis.<br /><br />Due to the file size (960 MB, .7z archive or .warc.gz), the scrape is available by request - simply email admin AT queerdigital.com. To browse the mirrored site (.7z archive), open index.html in the top-level folder.<br /><br /><strong>Checksum (SHA-256): </strong>92ee27551fab512b7c8f6e3d4d3aa55511f371d93980b0f6f13802fa4739df0c<br /><br />----<br /><br /><strong>Bio:</strong> Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was a computer scientist and transgender rights activist. Professionally, she is best known for her role in revolutionizing microship design. Early in her career, she was fired from IBM in 1968 when she revealed her intent to transition under the care of Dr. Harry Benjamin. Following transition, she worked at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) for many years before becoming a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. In 2000, Conway began to talk about her tranistion and earlier experiences through her website. The site grew to include a variety of informational resources on trans topics, a gallery of successful trans women and trans men, and records of her ongoing activism, including her campaign to challenge J. Michael Bailey's theory of "autogynephelia" and his associated 2003 book <em>The Man Who Would Be</em> <em>Queen</em>.<br /><br />Included below are links to other information on Conway:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/be4d1f53-36ce-4cf9-a1a7-f707e8aa9e3a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oral History with Lynn Conway</a>, conducted with Evan Taylor (Feb 04, 2020)</li>
<li><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10148834" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interview with Lynn Conway, published in <em>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing</em></a><em></em> (April-June 2023)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/technology/lynn-conway-dead.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times obituary</a> (June 15, 2024)</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Lynn Conway's Website Web Scrape
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Completed 07-30-2025
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
.7z archive or WARC (warc.gz, proccessed using <a href="https://coptr.digipres.org/index.php/Warcit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warcit</a>)
Language
A language of the resource
American English
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Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Local URL
The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website
https://transgriot.blogspot.com/
Year Founded (approximate)
2006
Last Year Active (approximate)
2020
Exterior References
This scrape of <a href="https://transgriot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgriot.blogspot.com</a> was completed 7-28-2025 using <a href="https://www.httrack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HTTrack</a>. It includes copies of the core index pages, embedded images (when still available) as well as individual blog entries, including comments. Pages for applied "labels" were not scraped to reduce file size, though they are currently available on the live web version. While the page has been archived by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, this scrape is intended to independently preserve the site, as well as to provide the site as a possible corpus for textual analysis.<br /><br />Due to the file size (506 MB, .7z archive or .warc.gz), the scrape is available by request - simply email admin AT queerdigital.com. To browse the mirrored site (.7z archive), open index.html in the top-level folder.<br /><br /><strong>Checksum (SHA-256): </strong> f7485f5285ee89a9dcbcfebdb0d2bd1d652b7b1579c891bc8eb95131a9084968<br /><br />----<br /><strong>Bio:</strong> Monica Roberts (May 4, 1962 – Oct 5, 2020) was an African-American journalist and transgender activist, based out of Houston, TX. Her blog <em>TransGriot</em> focused on trans issues, particularly African-American and other trans women of color. She was especially noted for her coverage of trans homicide victims in the United States, which brought national attention to these cases. <br /><br />Included below are links to other information on Roberts:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.thetaskforce.org/news/monica-roberts-in-her-own-words/">Roberts's acceptance speech for the Sue Hyde Award for Longevity in the Movement</a> (Jan 16, 2020)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.them.us/story/monica-roberts-transgriot-profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">them.us profile of Roberts</a> (Feb 26, 2020)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/monica-roberts-dead.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times obituary</a> (Oct 13, 2020)</li>
<li><a href="https://19thnews.org/2023/02/monica-roberts-transgriot-legacy-media-advocacy-trans-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19th News retorpsective on Roberts' impact</a> (Feb 21, 2023)</li>
</ul>
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Title
A name given to the resource
TransGriot Web Scrape
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Completed 07-28-2025
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
.7z archive or WARC (warc.gz, proccessed using <a href="https://coptr.digipres.org/index.php/Warcit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warcit</a>)
Language
A language of the resource
American English
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Primary Documents Collection
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds primary documents (listings, programs, applications, etc) related to LGBTQ life online pre-2010. When possible, files have been listed with their original date of publication and source. When mirrored from established sites, their original source is attributed and linked. If you have files you would like to submit for inclusion, please feel free to contact Avery Dame-Griff at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Software
A computer program in source or compiled form. Examples include a C source file, MS-Windows .exe executable, or Perl script.
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/1994/08/queers-through-the-years/?_sp=d322bd05-3f41-4994-90c0-96155709a542.1755282988198" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Wired</em> Review of Queers in History</a> (August 1, 1994)</li>
<li>Discussed in "<a href="https://archive.org/details/BAR_19950105/page/n17/mode/1up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queers in History: Private Influence on Public Lives</a>," <em>Bay Area Reporter</em> (January 5, 1995)</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queers in History
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Keith Stern (author)
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Quistory, Ltd.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1993
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
.IMA
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Description
An account of the resource
<em>Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals</em> is an encyclopedia of major historical LGBTQ figures written by Keith Stern. It was initally relased on a 2-floppy set in early 1993, with in an expanded CD-ROM version released in late 1994. A revised later edition was released in print, including a 2009 edition including a forward by Ian McKellan.<br /><br />For information on the current edition of <em>Queers in History</em>, please visit <a href="https://queersinhistory.com/2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the publisher's website</a>.<br /><br />The attached disk images are for the IBM edition, and screenshots were taken from an install in a Windows 3.1 environment.<br /><br /><strong>Checksum (SHA-256) for .zip of floppies</strong>: 0c4d801e5cf6d314e897c9c598ca9498ef6ab590e7b943f08aacbea235270afc
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Donated by Freya McCarroll.
software
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
704
City and State/Province
Charlotte, NC
Year Founded (approximate)
1986
Last Year Active (approximate)
1993
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
GayCom
Baud Rate
2400
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
gay men, lesbians
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
Attached Images:<br />
<ul>
<li>Advertisment for MetroLink from <a href="https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/2006225405/1991-08-01/ed-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Q-Notes</em> (August 1, 1991)</a></li>
</ul>
External Links:<br />
<ul>
<li>Discussed in <a href="https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn90018324/1992-10-30/ed-1/seq-3/"><em>The Front Page</em> (Oct. 30, 1992)</a></li>
<li>Discussed in "<a href="https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/2006225405/1993-03-01/ed-1/seq-31/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bulletin Board Systems cater to gays & lesbians</a>," <em>Q-Notes</em> (March 1, 1993) </li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
MetroLink
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
919
City and State/Province
Raleigh, NC
Abbreviations/Alias
Any other names used to refer to this forum
GLIE
Year Founded (approximate)
1989
Last Year Active (approximate)
1993
Sponsor or Institutional Host
Organizations that hosted, sponsored, or maintained the forum
The Front Page Newspaper (beginning in 1992)
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
gay men, lesbians
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<ul>
<li>Discussed in <a href="https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn90018324/1992-10-30/ed-1/seq-3/"><em>The Front Page</em> (Oct. 30, 1992)</a>, including Front Page takeover</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Gay and Lesbian Information Exchange
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Proprietary Forum
Forum on a proprietary platform (AOL, Livejournal, etc.)
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
Minitel
Abbreviations/Alias
Any other names used to refer to this forum
GPH
Year Founded (approximate)
1983
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
gay men
Exterior References
Attached Images:
<ul>
<li>Advertisements for GPH, date unknown.</li>
</ul>
External Links:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/cab97017654/salon-de-l-erotisme"><em>Salon de l'érotisme</em></a> (<em>Antenne 2 Le Journal de 20H</em>, March 16, 1985)- Short news piece on erotic art <em>salon</em> in Paris. At 02:39 it includes footage of <em>Gai Pied</em>'s Minitel site.</li>
<li><a href="https://minitel.us/memorabilia-ephemera/minitel-follies">"Minitel Follies"</a> (<em>Gay Comix</em> Spring/Summer 1988) - Short comic on using gay services on Minitel.</li>
<li>Duyves, M. (1993). "<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v25n01_13">The Minitel: The Glittering Future of a New Invention</a>." <em>Journal of Homosexuality</em>, 25(1–2), 193–203.</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170325123111/https://www.france.qrd.org/media/gai%20pied/">Le Biotux, Jean. "Le guêpier des années Gai Pied."</a> - History of<em> Gai Pied</em> by the founder that discusses Minitel</li>
<li>Livia, A. (2002). "Public and Clandestine: Gay Men’s Pseudonyms on the French Minitel." <i>Sexualities</i>, <i>5</i>(2), 201-217. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460702005002004">https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460702005002004</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tetu.com/2021/03/19/3615-gay-histoire-rencontre-minitel-telephone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"3615 factures exorbitantes et rencontres à l'aveugle... c'était la drague sur minitel."</a> tetu (March 19, 2021) - Reflections on mens' experiences using gay Minitel sites, including GPH</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Gai Pied Rézo
gay people
minitel
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
404
City and State/Province
Atlanta, GA
Year Founded (approximate)
1990
Last Year Active (approximate)
Unknown
Baud Rate
Unknown
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay Men, Lesbians
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<strong>Attached Files:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li>Photo from article in August 01, 1991 issue of the <em>Southern Voice</em>, "<a href="https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn61311684/1991-08-01/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay bulletin board services offer everything from dates to debates</a>."</li>
</ul>
<strong>Links:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li>"<a href="https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn61311684/1991-08-01/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay bulletin board services offer everything from dates to debates." The Southern Voice Vol. 4, No. 12 (August 01, 1991)</a>: Discusses OUTline along with several other BBSes, including Seattle-based <a href="https://queerdigital.com/items/show/131">28 Barbary Lane</a>.</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
OUTline
bbs
gay people
lesbian people
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
415
City and State/Province
San Francisco, CA
Abbreviations/Alias
Any other names used to refer to this forum
Kinky Computer, Kinky Kumputer III, Kinky KumputerIII
Year Founded (approximate)
1984
Last Year Active (approximate)
1994
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
GayCom
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay Men
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<ul>
<li>Discussed in "<a href="https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud198110/page/n27/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bawdy Bauds</a>" (<em>Kilobaud</em>, October 1981)</li>
<li>Discussed in <a href="https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeTheNetworkRevolution/page/n161/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist</em></a> (1993)</li>
</ul>
Attached clipping about the BAYOPS consortium (where Kinky Kumputer was a member) from <a href="https://archive.org/details/BAR_19870730/page/n19/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 30, 1987 issue of the <em>Bay Area Reporter</em></a>.<br /><br />Attached advertisement from the <a href="https://archive.org/details/BAR_19880630/page/n45/mode/1up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 30, 1988 issue of the <em>Bay Area Reporter</em></a>.
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Kinky Kumputer
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gay people
Kinky Kumputer
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Title
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Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Proprietary Forum
Forum on a proprietary platform (AOL, Livejournal, etc.)
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
WorldsAway and CompuServe
Year Founded (approximate)
1996
Last Year Active (approximate)
2000 (as Queery Universe)
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay and Lesbian people
Exterior References
Attached screenshot taken from Pride! Universe homepage and <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/pride-universe-slideshow/2554822">a slideshow</a> produced by former community manager Kelly Kuhn.<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971108123255fw_/http://www.pridemedia.com/universe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pride! Universe homepage</a> (archived Novermber 8, 1997)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19991127104132/http://queeryuniverse.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queery Universe homepage</a> (archived November 27, 1999)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971108123544fw_/http://www.pridemedia.com/release-universe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Press Release announcing the launch of Pride! Universe</a> (October 2, 1996)</li>
<li>Discussed in "<a href="https://archive.org/details/BAR_19961114/page/n9/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wired2BGay cruises Middle America</a>," <em>Bay Area Reporter</em> v.26, n.46 (November 14, 1996)</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.renoproject.org/index.php/Conference_with_Senior_Producer,_Greg_Oberfield_-_January_29th,_1997" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interview with Greg Oberfield, producer of Pride! Universe for Fujitsu</a> (January 29, 1997)</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.renoproject.org/index.php/Timeline#1996" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timeline of Habitat Worlds, including Pride! Universe</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.renoproject.org/index.php/WorldsAway_Newsletters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archive of WorldsAway newsletters, including the announcement of Pride! Universe</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.renoproject.org/index.php/Meeting_with_Tim_Lavalli_-_July_12th,_1998" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Discussion of WorldsAway including mention of Pride! Universe with Tim Lavalli</a> (July 12th 1998)</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.renoproject.org/index.php/Dreamscape_Pricing_Hearing_-_August_21st,_1997" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dreamscape Pricing Hearing (August 21st, 1997)</a> - Includes mention of Pride!'s impact by several members.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.vzn.eddcoates.com/worldpride.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VZ History: Pride/Queery Universe</a></li>
</ul>
(Some links and information generously provided by Stuart Cass at the <a href="https://renoproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reno Project</a>.)
Platform-specific rules, information, etc.
Platform-specific aspects of the community structure, governance, etc.
Rebranded as Queery Universe in 1999 as part of a partnership with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19991127104132/http://www.queery.com/">Queery</a>, an LGBT-specific search engine
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Title
A name given to the resource
Pride! Universe
Compuserve
WorldsAway
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Title
A name given to the resource
Read/Write Memories Oral Histories
Description
An account of the resource
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://queerdigital.com/images/RWM_Logo.png" width="750" height="229" alt="" /></div>
<p>The Read/Write Memories Oral History Collection documents the personal narratives of queer/LGBT individuals who used early digital platforms such as bulletin board systems (BBS), Usenet, mailing lists, proprietary platforms, or early websites. These histories chronicle the role digital communications played in queer life, particularly before such systems were commonplace. Beyond oral histories, the R/WM Collection also hosts Personal Accounts, which contain written firsthand narratives of individuals’ experiences with early digital platforms.</p>
<p>These remembrances offer a window into digital communication’s larger impact in a narrator’s life, as well as their wider community. Given the ephemeral nature of BBSes as well as the limited archiving of commercial platforms, these interviews and accounts represent a largely undocumented history of the early Net.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All interviews and Personal Accounts (unless otherwise negotiated) are released under a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial 4.0 International license (BY-NC)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Both formats may be published under either one’s professional name or a commonly known pseudonymous online handle, and the attached personal image may be either a personal photograph or a distinctive profile icon. As part of the project, oral history recordings and associated documents will also be held and made publicly available in the </span><a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oral History Collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of our institutional project partner, the Computer History Museum.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re interested in participating, either via an oral history or a Personal Account, please contact curator Avery Dame-Griff at </span><a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">admin@queerdigital.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview
Avery Dame-Griff
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed
Max Vasilatos
Location
The location of the interview
Conducted remotely via Zoom
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
01:27:08
Interviewee Biography
Short biography of narrator.
Max Vasilatos, they/them. With formal education in: Music, Nursing, Economics, Art, Languages, Criminal Justice, and Forensic Psychology. Much of my work has been in Geriatric Health Care, Network Engineering, and Law Enforcement. I sell specialty knives, chain mail, and cast bronze. Services: tech support, research, consulting, writing, and teaching. An ongoing focus has been underground markets. As of 2022, I draw portraits of deceased pets for their people, to honor their friends in grief and memory. (Provided by narrator.)
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Title
A name given to the resource
Oral History with Max Vasilatos
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
July 10, 2021
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Transcription edited and cleaned by <a href="https://www.mmonier.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mel Monier</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial 4.0 International license</a> (BY-NC)<br /><br />Please contact the QDHP if you'd like to reuse portions of the oral history.
Language
A language of the resource
American English
mailing list
oral history
soc.motss
Usenet
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Local URL
The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website
www.technodyke.com
Year Founded (approximate)
2000
Last Year Active (approximate)
2008
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Lesbian women; Queer women; Trans women
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000701000000*/TechnoDyke.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archived copy of TechnoDyke.com</a> (first archived March 10, 2000)</li>
<li>Included in <a href="https://cyberfeminismindex.com/#/technodyke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The CyberFeminism Index</a>, developed by Mindy Seu</li>
<li>Discussed in relation to the Lanham Trademark Act in <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Attorneys-find-Dykes-on-Bikes-patently-offensive-2655626.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The SF Gate</em></a> (July 14, 2005) and <a href="https://208.87.242.233/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/30/the-idiotic-history-of-deeming-trademarks-scandalous-immoral-or-disparaging/?__cpo=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29t" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Washington Post</em></a> (Sept 30, 2016)</li>
<li>Discussed in Chapter 4 of Jo Reger's <a href="https://archive.org/details/everywherenowher0000rege/page/n7/mode/2up?q=technodyke" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Everywhere and Nowhere: Contemporary Feminism in the United States</em></a>. (London: United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2012.)</li>
</ul>
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Title
A name given to the resource
TechnoDyke.com
Language
A language of the resource
American English
lesbian people
lesbian youth
queer women
transgender women
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Title
A name given to the resource
Primary Documents Collection
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds primary documents (listings, programs, applications, etc) related to LGBTQ life online pre-2010. When possible, files have been listed with their original date of publication and source. When mirrored from established sites, their original source is attributed and linked. If you have files you would like to submit for inclusion, please feel free to contact Avery Dame-Griff at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Interactive Resource
A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Transgender Forum Compilation CD, Vol. 1-4
Description
An account of the resource
<span>This disc contains content originally published on <a href="tgforum.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TGForum.com</a> from April 1995 to December 1998. This disc was produced by</span> 3-D Communications, Inc. in 1999 and donated to the GLBT Historical Society in 2023. This ISO and all associated images <a href="https://archive.org/details/transgender-forum/">have been mirrored from copy in the Internet Archive.</a><br /><br />The CD can also be browsed via <a href="https://infinitemac.org/1998/Mac%20OS%208.1?cdrom=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdownload%2Ftransgender-forum%2Ftransgenderforum.img">the Infinite Mac emulator</a>.<br /><br /><span>TGForum was founded in 1995 by Cindy Martin, who was soon joined by Jamie Faye Fenton and JoAnn Roberts. Over the years, TGForum has hosted a variety of information and services, including a web magazine, chat rooms, message boards, and sites for indivdiual community organizations. </span>In 2014, TGForum was sold by then-owner JoAnn Roberts to Prodigal Song Ventures.<span><br /></span><br /><strong>ISSN:</strong> 1092-5538
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
3-D Communications, Inc.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
3-D Communications, Inc.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Contains content from April 1995 to December 1998.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Donated to the GLBT Historical Society in 2023 and <a href="https://archive.org/details/transgender-forum/">mirrored from copy made available in the Internet Archive.</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
All authors of content included on this disc retain copyright. Work is made available for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Compact Disc
Language
A language of the resource
American English
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Name
Name of Forum
Emerald OnRamp
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
206; 504
City and State/Province
Seattle WA; New Orleans, LA
Abbreviations/Alias
Any other names used to refer to this forum
EOR
Year Founded (approximate)
1993
Last Year Active (approximate)
1997
Baud Rate
2400
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexual people, Transgender people
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<strong>Attached Files:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li>Logo for Emerald OnRamp, which first appeared when a user went to log in. Retrived from archived copy of the FirstClass installation package.</li>
<li>Advertisement for Emerald OnRamp with screenshots of the service. EOR used the proprietary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FirstClass" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FirstClass</a> software to allow users access to chat rooms, local news, and “digital storefronts.” Advertisement from the March 25, 1994 issue of <em>Seattle Gay News</em>. Courtesy of Newspapers.com.</li>
</ul>
<br /><strong>Links:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/bz60cw46s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Emerald OnRamp: A Jewel of an Idea." <em>The Ingersoll Message</em>, Vol. 1 No. 7 (September 1995)</a> (p. 13): Article on the Seattle-based Ingersoll Gender Center's new "online storefront" on EOR</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19961104040343/http%3A%2F%2Feor.com%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Website for Emerald OnRamp</a> (archived Nov 4, 1996)</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Emerald OnRamp
bbs
bisexual people
EmeraldOnRamp
gay people
lesbian people
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Name
Name of Forum
28 Barbary Lane
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
206
City and State/Province
Seattle, WA
Abbreviations/Alias
Any other names used to refer to this forum
28BBL
Year Founded (approximate)
1985
Last Year Active (approximate)
1997
Baud Rate
300-28800 in 1997
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Women, Gay Men, Bisexuals
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<strong>Attached files:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li>First classified advertisement ever run for 28 Barbary Lane, from the July 24, 1987 issue of <em>Seattle Gay News</em>. Courtesy of Newspapers.com.</li>
<li>Photograph of 28 Barbary Lane landing page, pulled up on a computer monitor, from the Feb 14, 1992 issue of <em>Seattle Gay News</em>. Courtesy of Newspapers.com.</li>
</ul>
<strong>Links:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030729194604/http%3A%2F%2F28bbl.com%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archived website for 2003 relaunch of 28 Barbary Lane as a web forum</a> (archived July 29, 2003)</li>
<li>"<a href="https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=SGN19850329.1.6&srpos=10&e=-------en-20-SGN-1--txt-txIN-28+Barbary+Lane------"" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28 Barbary lane - a gay community bulletin board." <em>Seattle Gay News</em> (May 29, 1985)</a>: First offical announcement of BBS launch.</li>
<li>"<a href="https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn61311684/1991-08-01/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay bulletin board services offer everything from dates to debates." <em>The Southern Voice</em> Vol. 4, No. 12 (August 01, 1991)</a>: Discusses 28BBL in comparison to Atlanta, GA-based gay and lesbian BBSes.</li>
<li>"<a href="https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=SGN19920214.1.14&srpos=1&e=-------en-20-SGN-1--txt-txIN-28+Barbary+Lane------" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Warning: CompuDykes at 9 o'clock." <em>Seattle Gay News</em> (May 24, 1991)</a>: Discusses 28 Barbary Lane.</li>
<li>"<a href="https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=SGN19920214.1.14&srpos=1&e=-------en-20-SGN-1--txt-txIN-28+Barbary+Lane------" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dates and chat, and handles and Sysops." <em>Seattle Gay News</em> (February 14, 1992)</a>: Discusses 28 Barbary Lane.</li>
</ul>
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An account of the resource
Examples used in the <a href="https://queerdigital.com/exhibits/show/impfigs/jennings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Jennings Exhibit</a>.
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Title
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Kiyoshi Kuromiya Exhibit Items
Description
An account of the resource
Examples used in the <a href="https://queerdigital.com/exhibits/show/impfigs/kuromiya" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kiyoshi Kuromiya</a> Exhibit.
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Name
Name of Forum
Critical Path AIDS Project BBS
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
214
City and State/Province
Philadelphia, PA
Year Founded (approximate)
1991
Last Year Active (approximate)
Unknown
Sponsor or Institutional Host
Organizations that hosted, sponsored, or maintained the forum
Critical Path AIDS Project
Baud Rate
Up to 9600-baud
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
People With AIDS (PWAs)
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<strong>Attached files:</strong> <br />
<ul>
<li>Cover for the October 1991 issue of the Critical Path Newsletter, sourced from <a href="https://www.bolerium.com/pages/books/270782/kiyoshi-kuromiya/critical-path-aids-project-vol-2-7-8-october-1991-the-speed-of-light-aids-information-in-the-1990s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bolerium Books</a>.</li>
<li>Photograph of Kuromiya in 1992, originally from <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/health/outraged-over-indifference-aids-act-up-is-rewriting-rules-protest-20110605.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philadelphia Inquirer</a>.</li>
<li>Press Release on Critical Path as a plantiff in Reno v. ACLU (mirrored from <a href="http://www.qrd.org/qrd/usa/federal/1996/critical.path.fights.net.censorship-02.09.96" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Queer Resources Directory</a>)</li>
</ul>
<strong>Other references:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li>Select digital copies of the Critical Path Newsletter available in the <a href="https://queerdigital.com/items/show/96" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AIDS Info BBS Documents Collection</a></li>
<li>Kiyoshi Kuromiya Exhibit (TBD)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19961221111705/http://www.critpath.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archived copy of the Critical Path website</a> (archived Dec 21, 1996)</li>
</ul>
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Joanna Clark Exhibit Items
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Examples used in the <a href="https://queerdigital.com/exhibits/show/impfigs/clark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joanna Clark (Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark)</a> Exhibit.
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Archived LGBTQ Yahoo Groups
Description
An account of the resource
This collections holds archives of LGBTQ-related Yahoo Groups collected prior to the service's closure in late 2019. Each of the entries contains more information about the archive, its content, and access restrictions.<br /><br />More information on the project's methods and approach can be found on <a href="http://queerdigital.com/ygpresproject">the related page</a>.
Yahoo Group
Entry for archival copy of Yahoo Group
Group Description
Official Description of Group
The official newsletter of the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition. People who would like to receive periodic news, announcements, action alerts from NTAC are welcome to subscribe to this announcement list. (From 2005)
Years Active
Approximate years group was active online
2001-2009
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
General Public
Original Access and Visibility Restrictions
Restrictions on who could access and post to the group
Members only access
Redaction and Access Restrictions
Email addresses redacted. No access restrictions to the archive.
Exterior References
Organization description (taken from their website): "NTAC, the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, is a §501(c)(4) political advocacy coalition working to establish and maintain the right of all transgendered, intersexed, and gender-variant people to live and work without fear of violence or discrimination."<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011201083605/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntactimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Original Yahoo Groups page</a> (archived Dec 1, 2001)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040804222934/http://www.ntac.org/pr/index.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NTAC Press Releases</a> (archived Aug 4, 2004)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20021017213937/http://www.ntac.org/newsletter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NTAC Newsletter</a> (archived October 17, 2002)</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
NTAC Times
NTAC
yahoo group
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Mailing List
E-mail Mailing Lists
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
transgendered people, crossdressers, transvestites, transsexual people, community allies
Years Active
Approximate years group was active online
1998-2004
Sponsor or Institutional Host
Organizations that hosted, sponsored, or maintained the forum
Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA)
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<span> Gender Advocacy Internet News (1998 - 2004) was a news service maintained by Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) collecting information relevant to the trans community. GEA was founded in 1998 from the merger of two existing trans community organizations: </span>the American Educational Gender Information Service (AEGIS) and It's Time, America! (ITA). <br /><br /><span>GAIN grew out of ITA's existing news service and was edited by former ITA media director </span>Penni Ashe Matz until her death in 2001. From 2002 onward, it was edited by Kim Carver and Gwyneth Rhian Morgan.<br /><br /><a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/111" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An archive of GAIN digests covering 1998 to 2004</a> is available at the QDHP. The attached image is taken from the archived GAIN webpage (linked below).<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815100131/http://www.gender.org/gain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archived copy of GAIN page</a> on GEA's website in the Internet Archive (archived August 15, 2000) </li>
</ul>
Year Founded (approximate)
1998
Last Year Active (approximate)
2004
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Gender Advocacy Internet News (GAIN)
crossdressers
GAIN
Gender Advocacy Internet News
mailing list
transgender people
transsexual people
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Primary Documents Collection
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds primary documents (listings, programs, applications, etc) related to LGBTQ life online pre-2010. When possible, files have been listed with their original date of publication and source. When mirrored from established sites, their original source is attributed and linked. If you have files you would like to submit for inclusion, please feel free to contact Avery Dame-Griff at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Born-Digital Archival Material
Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries
Year Founded (approximate)
1998
Last Year Active (approximate)
2004
Sponsor or Institutional Host
Organizations that hosted, sponsored, or maintained the forum
Gender Advocacy Internet News (GAIN)
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
File Format
Format of digital file(s).
ZIP archive of TXT files (plain text unicode)
Total number of files
228
Checksum (SHA-256)
A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity.
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Title
A name given to the resource
GAIN (Gender Advocacy Internet News) Archive
Description
An account of the resource
<span><span>This archive contains archival copies of the Gender Advocacy Internet News (GAIN) news service, published from 1998 to 2004. GAIN collected relevant news stories, action alerts, short essays, and other information related to the trans community. For more information on GAIN, see <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its related catalog page</a>.</span></span><br /><br /><span>Archive is organized by year and month of publication. All email addresses have been redacted from the archival files, but messages have not been anonymized. If you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at </span><a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a><span><span>.</span></span><span><br /></span>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Donated by <a href="http://dallasdenny.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dallas Denny</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1998-2004
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
ZIP archive
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
All authors of content included in this archive retain copyright. Work is made available for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Mailing List
crossdressers
GAIN
Gender Advocacy Internet News
mailing list
transgender people
transsexual people
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Primary Documents Collection
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds primary documents (listings, programs, applications, etc) related to LGBTQ life online pre-2010. When possible, files have been listed with their original date of publication and source. When mirrored from established sites, their original source is attributed and linked. If you have files you would like to submit for inclusion, please feel free to contact Avery Dame-Griff at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Year Founded (approximate)
2000
Last Year Active (approximate)
2009
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
tgender.net Archive
Description
An account of the resource
This archive contains copies of documents and files publicly hosted on tgender.net, which offered hosting to a variety of transgender groups and non-profits:<br />
<ul>
<li>Transgender at Work, a non-profit focused on addressing workplace issues for transgender individuals</li>
<li>Gender Advocacy Internet News (GAIN) [1998-1999]</li>
<li>Transgender News</li>
<li>It's Time, America! and its state-level member groups:</li>
<ul>
<li>It's Time, Connecticut!</li>
<li>It's Time, Florida!</li>
<li>It's Time, Georgia!</li>
<li>It's Time, Illinois!</li>
<li>It's Time, Massachussets</li>
<li>It's Time, Ohio!</li>
<li>It's Time, Oregon!</li>
<li>It's Time, The Carolinas!</li>
</ul>
</ul>
It also holds an archive of the ITA-announce and ITA-chat mailing lists. All email addresses have been redacted from these files, but messages have not been anonymized. If you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.<br /><br />While it's possible to navigate most of the archive via the different index.html files, some internal links are no longer available or placed at a different location. As such, it may be best to explore the content using an existing file browser.<br /><br /><strong>Checksum (SHA-256):</strong> 80ee42923f3a43b1d10b0eda78559ce400306e512b98fab0e4ed4b35ac130fa9
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1997-2002
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Donated by <a href="https://maryannhorton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Ann Horton</a>.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
.zip archive. Contained files are either in Hyper Text Markup Language (.html) or plain text unicode (.txt).
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Webserver archive
crossdressers
transgender people
transsexual people
website
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Mailing List
E-mail Mailing Lists
Year Founded (approximate)
1988
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
transgendered people, crossdressers, transvestites, transsexual people
Years Active
Approximate years group was active online
1988-1995
Exterior References
<strong>Mailing List Description (circa 1993, taken from CDForum digest):</strong> "cd forum is a "safe space" digested electronic mailing list for the support of cross-dressing, transsexuality, and other gender issues. Friendly and frank discussions. No membership fees. Your address will be kept in strict confidence. Articles you submit for publication in the forum are stripped of header and signature id unless you instruct me otherwise. To subscribe, please send me a short paragraph describing your interest in cd forum, and where you heard of it. You will be requested to submit an introductory article within one month of your subscription."<br /><br /><a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/108" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An archive of CDForum digests covering 1988 to 1993</a> is available for request at the QDHP. <br /><br /><strong>Attached:</strong> Mailing List description held in the <a href="http://www.qrd.org/qrd/electronic/email/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mailing List section</a> of the Queer Resources Directory. Original file mirrored from <a href="http://www.qrd.org/qrd/electronic/email/cd-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Last Year Active (approximate)
1995
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
CDForum
cd-forum
crossdressers
mailing list
transgender people
transsexual people
transvestites
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Primary Documents Collection
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds primary documents (listings, programs, applications, etc) related to LGBTQ life online pre-2010. When possible, files have been listed with their original date of publication and source. When mirrored from established sites, their original source is attributed and linked. If you have files you would like to submit for inclusion, please feel free to contact Avery Dame-Griff at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Born-Digital Archival Material
Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries
File Format
Format of digital file(s).
ZIP archive of TXT files (plain text unicode)
Total number of files
259
Checksum (SHA-256)
A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity.
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
CDForum Archive
Description
An account of the resource
This archive contains digests for the CDForum mailing list, covering 1988 to 1993. CDForum was one of the first trans-specific email mailing lists and remained active until at least 1995. Digests 145, 175, 177, 179, and 242 are not included. <span>For more information on CDForum, see <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/109" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its related catalog page</a>.</span><br /><br />Collection is organized by year of publication. Index of 1988-1991 is available at root. All email addresses have been redacted from the archival files, but messages have not been anonymized. If you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.<br /><br />Requests to access this archive will be reviewed by the curatorial team. If you are interested in accessing this archive, please submit a copy of the request form attached to this page. Once the request is submitted, the curatorial team will review your request and be in contact with you.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1988-1993
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Donated by <a href="https://maryannhorton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Ann Horton</a>.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
ZIP archive
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Mailing List
archive
cd-forum
crossdressers
mailing list
transgender people
transsexual people
transvestites
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Name
Name of Forum
Land of Awes BBS
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
316
City and State/Province
Wichita, KS
Year Founded (approximate)
1990
Last Year Active (approximate)
2001
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
FidoNet node 1:291/9
Sponsor or Institutional Host
Organizations that hosted, sponsored, or maintained the forum
Land of Awes
Baud Rate
Unknown
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexual people
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
Attached ad for Land of Awes Phone Tree from <a href="https://history.okeq.org/items/show/458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Parachute Vol 1, no. 7, Oct 1993</a>), as well as widely-circulated ECGM advertisement (retrieved from the <a href="http://www.qrd.org/qrd/electronic/1995/electronic.gay.community.magazine-01.29.95" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Resources Directory</a>)<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19981206234920/http://www.awes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Land of Awes Information Service Homepage</a> (archived Dec 6, 1999)</li>
<li>Hosted Land of Awes Phone Tree (see attached ad)</li>
<li>Hosted <a href="http://awes.com/egcm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electronic Gay Community Magazine</a> (first founded as print publication <em>Emerald City News)</em> from 1988 to 2007
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19990224221223/http://www.zzapp.org/awes/egcm/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archived EGCM site</a> (archived Feb 24, 1999)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Land of Awes
bbs
bisexual people
FidoNet
gay people
lesbian people
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Name
Name of Forum
LAMBDA BOARD - EDINBURGH
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
0131
City and State/Province
Edinburgh, Scotland
Year Founded (approximate)
Unknown, first reference in 1994
Last Year Active (approximate)
2006
Baud Rate
2400
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Women, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Transgender People
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
Scottish English
Exterior References
<ul>
<li>Regular advertiser in <a href="http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ScotsGay Magazine</a> from 1994 to 2006</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
LAMBDA BOARD - EDINBURGH
bbs
bisexual people
gay people
lesbian people
transgender people
-
https://www.queerdigital.com/files/original/fac461dcbd49823cd6629d531403b4d3.zip
504e7fa02734e85c769c6944e83de2c2
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Primary Documents Collection
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds primary documents (listings, programs, applications, etc) related to LGBTQ life online pre-2010. When possible, files have been listed with their original date of publication and source. When mirrored from established sites, their original source is attributed and linked. If you have files you would like to submit for inclusion, please feel free to contact Avery Dame-Griff at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Born-Digital Archival Material
Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries
File Format
Format of digital file(s).
ZIP, TXT (plain text unicode), LST
Total number of files
11
Checksum (SHA-256)
A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity.
8963f687da69eafadcf8754d5d28af4ce6efe6888567d26dce42eee32afd149a
Dublin Core
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Description
An account of the resource
A collection of born-digital documents related to adult BBS network THROBNET, which had several active LGBT-related conferences. Includes (listing copied from textfiles.com):<br />
<ul>
<li>blt1 - THROBNET: What is Throbnet?</li>
<li>blt2 - THROBNET: Detailed Descriptions of Throbnet Conferences</li>
<li>blt3 - THROBNET: List of Moderators of Throbnet Conference Moderators</li>
<li>blt5 - THROBNET: How to Send Private Mail in Throbnet</li>
<li>blt6 - THROBNET: Free Speech in ThrobNet</li>
<li>blt7 - THROBNET: The ThrobHelp Conference</li>
<li>blt8 - THROBNET: The Moderators' Guidelines</li>
<li>throbnet.apl - THROBNET: National Adult Network Network Application (October 31, 1994)</li>
<li>throbnet.cnf - THROBNET: Detailed List of Throbnet Conferences</li>
<li>throbnet.inf - THROBNET: Introduction to the Throbnet International Adult Network</li>
<li>throbnet.lst - THROBNET: List of BBSes in the Throbnet Network</li>
</ul>
When no file extension present, files have been converted to .txt for readability.
Title
A name given to the resource
THROBNET Primary Documents
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/FIDONET/">textfiles.net Fidonet archive</a>
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
ZIP
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
BBS Network Information
bbs network
throbnet
-
https://www.queerdigital.com/files/original/83bbecc899383dac48e8c5c19b3ca2a7.ZIP
1195b4731647f9125c9b4b5747fb424d
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Primary Documents Collection
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds primary documents (listings, programs, applications, etc) related to LGBTQ life online pre-2010. When possible, files have been listed with their original date of publication and source. When mirrored from established sites, their original source is attributed and linked. If you have files you would like to submit for inclusion, please feel free to contact Avery Dame-Griff at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Born-Digital Archival Material
Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries
File Format
Format of digital file(s).
ZIP, DIZ, 071, APP, ECH, RUL (all can be opened with plain text reader)
Total number of files
13
Checksum (SHA-256)
A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity.
34de3fb84e9471f18ceaef3bf8f2714bdf1945568fd1679cd704edf341f1ed2a
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
PrideNet! USA & Canada Info Pak
Subject
The topic of the resource
Information Packet for PrideNet! USA & Canada BBS Network
Description
An account of the resource
Includes:<br />
<ul>
<li>PRIDELST.071 - Nodelist (of member BBSes)</li>
<li>PRIDENET.ECH - List of Echos (forums)</li>
<li>PRIDENET.APP - An application for sysops to join PrideNet</li>
<li>PRIDEPOL - Rules for Echos:
<ul>
<li>Straight Talk</li>
<li>Desert Hearts (women-only)</li>
<li>Gainers</li>
<li>Gay Baths</li>
<li>Grassroots</li>
<li>Naturalist</li>
<li>Free-For-All Flames</li>
<li>PrideNet Chat</li>
<li>PrideNET System Operators Echo</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://bbs.retropc.se/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBS File Area</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Unknown
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Uploaded 3-07-1993
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
ZIP
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
BBS Network Information Packet
bbs network
bisexual people
gay people
lesbian people
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Archived LGBTQ Yahoo Groups
Description
An account of the resource
This collections holds archives of LGBTQ-related Yahoo Groups collected prior to the service's closure in late 2019. Each of the entries contains more information about the archive, its content, and access restrictions.<br /><br />More information on the project's methods and approach can be found on <a href="http://queerdigital.com/ygpresproject">the related page</a>.
Yahoo Group
Entry for archival copy of Yahoo Group
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
General Interest
Years Active
Approximate years group was active online
2004-2015
Group Description
Official Description of Group
<strong>Taken from group's original "About" description:</strong> "Transgender News and Features (TGN&F) was founded and is maintained as an educational resource and historical archive of news and commentary relating to and of interest to the transgender (LGBTQI) community. <br /><br />After March 31, 2015, we will cease posting news to this group.<br /><br />Our news posting will continue at our other groups: <a rel="\"nofollow\"" target="\"_blank\"" href="\"https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transgendernews/info\"">Yahoo Transgender News</a> and <a rel="\"nofollow\"" target="\"_blank\"" href="\"https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/transgender-news\"">Google Transgender News</a>."
Redaction and Access Resctrictions
As an archive of material published elsewhere, group files are included in the archive, and only message metadata has been redacted.<br /><br />Requests to access this archive will be reviewed by the curatorial team. If you are interested in accessing this archive, please <a href="http://queerdigital.com/files/original/2a5c77bb6fdf84c100af90f1b3eb55db.docx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">submit a request form</a>. Once the request is submitted, the curatorial team will review your request and be in contact with you.
Original Access and Visibility Restrictions
Restrictions on who could access and post to the group
Open membership. Posting and content visibility restricted to group members.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
transgender_news_and_features
transgender people
yahoo group
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Archived LGBTQ Yahoo Groups
Description
An account of the resource
This collections holds archives of LGBTQ-related Yahoo Groups collected prior to the service's closure in late 2019. Each of the entries contains more information about the archive, its content, and access restrictions.<br /><br />More information on the project's methods and approach can be found on <a href="http://queerdigital.com/ygpresproject">the related page</a>.
Yahoo Group
Entry for archival copy of Yahoo Group
Years Active
Approximate years group was active online
2002-2019
Group Description
Official Description of Group
<strong>Taken from "About" description:</strong> "Transgender News was founded and is maintained as an educational resource and historical archive of news and commentary relating to and of interest to the transgender (LGBTQI) community. NOTE... We cannot edit a message after it is posted. And, please, do not ask us to delete posted messages: we don't. Thank you for your understanding of this.<br /><br />Transgender News can also be accessed at the <a rel="\"nofollow\"" target="\"_blank\"" href="\"https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/transgender-news\"">Google Transgender News</a> group.\n\nThis group is non-profit and non-commercial. The news and commentary we post here is intended for research and education purposes only, and not for any financial gain on our part or on that of our members and readers.<br /><br />All messages are moderated.<br /><br />Do not reply to messages. Replies are not posted.<br /><br />A WORD ABOUT MAIL... On average, Transgender News posts about 25-30 messages a day. If you set your Message Delivery to Individual Emails when you joined the group and now feel that you're receiving too much mail, rather than unsubscribing from the group, please consider switching to Daily Digest or No Email."
Redaction and Access Resctrictions
As an archive of material published elsewhere, group files are included in the archive, and only message metadata has been redacted.<br /><br />Requests to access this archive will be reviewed by the curatorial team. If you are interested in accessing this archive, please <a href="http://queerdigital.com/files/original/2a5c77bb6fdf84c100af90f1b3eb55db.docx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">submit a request form</a>. Once the request is submitted, the curatorial team will review your request and be in contact with you.
Original Access and Visibility Restrictions
Restrictions on who could access and post to the group
Open membership. Posting and content visibility restricted to group members.
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
General Interest
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
transgendernews
transgender people
yahoo group
-
https://www.queerdigital.com/files/original/481f234976bab0d566888c581e92d703.zip
58dab4c67c712c4799789a5a33d9191e
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS: Documents
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards.<br /><br />This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <br />
<ul>
<li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li>
<li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li>
<li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li>
<li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li>
</ul>
In total, the collection holds 12,496 files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents.<br /><br />However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. <br /><br />If you would like messages you wrote <strong>to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders</strong>, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a>
Born-Digital Archival Material
Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries
File Format
Format of digital file(s).
ZIP, TXT (plain text unicode)
Total number of files
6,366 Files
Checksum (SHA-256)
A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity.
a761ac1c6cebb16745f7259ca3ad3ff4ad9a0abb666d234dca3747569e50983e
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS: Rethinking AIDS Mailing Lists
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of files held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040422173703/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/articles/rethink/">rethink</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041019001434/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/articles/quilty/">quilty</a> folders of the AIDS Info BBS. Both folders contain message archives for the "rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists, both of which focused on rethinking AIDS orthodoxy. <span>For more information on the AIDS Info BBS, see the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Community Catalog entry</a> and the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Documents collection</a> landing page.</span><br /><br />Messages have not been anonymized. If you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1994 - 2001
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
ZIP
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Mailing List
AIDS Info BBS
mailing list
-
https://www.queerdigital.com/files/original/1f27b8bd052a3fad4253fdd87687ec18.zip
1804ef61e383b9179c920231b0185b00
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS: Documents
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards.<br /><br />This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <br />
<ul>
<li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li>
<li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li>
<li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li>
<li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li>
</ul>
In total, the collection holds 12,496 files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents.<br /><br />However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. <br /><br />If you would like messages you wrote <strong>to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders</strong>, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a>
Born-Digital Archival Material
Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries
File Format
Format of digital file(s).
ZIP, TXT (plain text unicode)
Total number of files
3,334 Files
Checksum (SHA-256)
A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity.
d0589fcc3c9120ff4ab8e79b66a32d4ec906b88e30824f72d1da407c091375ff
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS: Caregivers Mailing List
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of files held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041101120516/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/caregivers/">caregivers</a> folder of the AIDS Info BBS. Folders contain messages posted to the "caregivers" mailing list, which offered support for caregivers of PWAs. <span>For more information on the AIDS Info BBS, see the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Community Catalog entry</a> and the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Documents collection</a> landing page.</span><br /><br />Messages were originally anonymized by BBS sysop Ben Gardiner: poster e-mail addresses have been removed, and all posting dates have been updated to the date of their anonymization. However, if you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
AIDS Info BBS
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
ZIP
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Unknown
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Mailing List
AIDS Info BBS
mailing list
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS: Documents
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards.<br /><br />This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <br />
<ul>
<li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li>
<li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li>
<li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li>
<li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li>
</ul>
In total, the collection holds 12,496 files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents.<br /><br />However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. <br /><br />If you would like messages you wrote <strong>to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders</strong>, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a>
Born-Digital Archival Material
Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries
File Format
Format of digital file(s).
ZIP, TXT (plain text unicode)
Total number of files
772 Files
Checksum (SHA-256)
A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity.
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS: AIDS Periodicals
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of files (all in plain text [.txt] format) held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100408074507/http://aidsinfobbs.org/periodicals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Periodicals</a> portion of the AIDS Info BBS. Newsletter age varies, but covers the late 1980s up to the early 2000s, depending on the publication. File hierarchy (listed below) mirrors original source.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><br />Archiv</strong><strong>e</strong><strong> includes:</strong></span><br />
<ul>
<li><strong>actup</strong> - Treatment Issues Digest, published weekly by ACT UP/NY's Treatment Issues committee</li>
<li><strong>atn</strong> - Issues of AIDS Treatment News, published by John James</li>
<li><strong>bealive </strong>- Issues of the Los Angeles-based Being Alive Newsletter</li>
<li><strong>bealivew </strong>- Issues of the Los Angeles-based Women Being Alive Newsletter</li>
<li><strong>beta </strong>- Issues of the Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, published by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation</li>
<li><strong>catie </strong>- Issues of the Treatment Update newsletter</li>
<li><strong>critpath </strong>- Issues of the Critical Path AIDS Project Newsletter</li>
<li><strong>eurocaso</strong> - Newsletter published in Europe, circa 1992</li>
<li><strong>focus</strong> - Newsletter published by the AIDS Health Project, which was affiliated with University of California, San Francisco</li>
<li><strong>gmhcissues</strong> - Treatment Issues, a newsletter published by the Gay Men's Health Crisis</li>
<li><strong>kairos</strong> - Newsletters from Kairos House, a support center for AIDS caregivers located in San Francisco.</li>
<li><strong>naplwa </strong>- Newsletter for the National Association of People Living With AIDS</li>
<li><strong>napwa</strong> - Newsletter for the National Association of People With AIDS</li>
<li><strong>pediatric</strong> - The Pediatric AIDS Newsletter is published by SPIN, the Service Provider Informatiion Network of the Boston AIDS Consortium</li>
<li><strong>projnform</strong> - Newsletter and documents produced by San Francisco-based organization Project Inform</li>
<li><strong>search</strong> - Newsletter of Los Angeles-based Searchlight group</li>
<li><strong>seasons</strong> - Newsletter of The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center in Oakland, CA.</li>
</ul>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
AIDS Info BBS
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1988-2003
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
ZIP
Language
A language of the resource
American English
AIDS Info BBS
periodicals
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS: Documents
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards.<br /><br />This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <br />
<ul>
<li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li>
<li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li>
<li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li>
<li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li>
</ul>
In total, the collection holds 12,496 files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents.<br /><br />However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. <br /><br />If you would like messages you wrote <strong>to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders</strong>, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a>
Born-Digital Archival Material
Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries
File Format
Format of digital file(s).
ZIP, TXT (plain text unicode)
Total number of files
2,796 files
Checksum (SHA-256)
A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity.
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS: BBS Fora
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of files (all in plain text [.txt] format) held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041117001026/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/openforum/">openforum</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041019014656/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/thisbbs/">thisbbs</a> folders of the AIDS Info BBS. <span>Folders contain message archvies for the openforum and thisbbs sections of the AIDS Info BBS. For more information on the AIDS Info BBS, see the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Community Catalog entry</a> and the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Documents collection</a> landing page.<br /><br /></span>Messages have not been anonymized. If you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
AIDS Info BBS
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1987 - 1997
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
ZIP
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Mailing List
AIDS Info BBS
bbs
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Proprietary Forum
Forum on a proprietary platform (AOL, Livejournal, etc.)
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
ECHO NYC
Year Founded (approximate)
Unknown
Last Year Active (approximate)
Unknown
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
gay people, lesbian people, bisexual people, transgender people, queer people
Exterior References
<ul>
<li>"<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/27/business/sound-bytes-an-electronic-salon-in-ny.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sound Bytes: An Electronic Salon, in N.Y.</a>," <em>New York Times</em> (March 27, 1994) - An early interview with ECHO founder Stacy Horn on the ECHO NYC BBS</li>
<li><a href="https://www.echonyc.com/~lambda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conference homepage</a> (last update date unknown)</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Lambda Conference (ECHO)
bisexual people
ECHONYC
gay people
Lambda Conference
lesbian people
queer people
transgender people
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
415 area code, later 714 area code
City and State/Province
San Francisco, CA
Year Founded (approximate)
<ul>
<li>Founded 1986</li>
<li>Moved to Gopher in 1994</li>
<li>aidsinfobbs.org opened in 1997</li>
</ul>
Last Year Active (approximate)
Unknown
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
Computerized AIDS Information Network (CAIN); FidoNet (Node Address: 1:103/927); AEGIS (AIDS Education General Information System) Network (National Hub)
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
Attached classified ad from <a href="http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/sfbagals/Sentinal/1989_SFS_Vol17_No17_Apr_.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Sentinel (April 27, 1989)</a><br />
<ul>
<li>Archived version of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aidsinfobbs.org</a> (Archived Dec 22, 1997)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020707/http://aidsinfobbs.org/description.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Description</a> of the web version, written by Ben Gardiner (Archived Dec 22, 1997)</li>
<li><a href="https://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/BEN-TAW.HTM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interview with Ben Gardiner</a>, first published in the New York Native (July 30, 1990)</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/BAR_19920312/page/n15/mode/1up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Free For All: Bulletin Board Offers Easy Access to AIDS Info,"</a> <em>Bay Area Reporter</em> (March 12, 1992)</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/bbsdocumentary-interview-gardiner-2002-07" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Audio interview with sysop Ben Gardiner</a>, conducted by Jason Scott as part of the BBS Documentary (2002)</li>
<li><a href="https://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/BEN.HTM">Obituary for Ben Gardiner</a>, by friend John Lauritsen (2010)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ben-Gardiner-dies-gay-rights-activist-actor-3271651.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Obituary for Ben Gardiner</a> from the SFGate (Feb 27, 2010)</li>
<li>Waters, Michael. "<a href="https://onezero.medium.com/the-long-forgotten-story-of-ben-gardiner-the-aids-activist-whose-network-transformed-the-internet-c14460a73165"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How a 1980s AIDS Support Group Changed The Internet Forever</span></a>." <em>OneZero</em>.</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
AIDS Info BBS
AEGIS Network
AIDS Info BBS
bbs
CAIN
FidoNet
people living with HIV/AIDS
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
407
City and State/Province
Orlando, FL
Abbreviations/Alias
Any other names used to refer to this forum
CompuWho, Compu Who, members known as "Whosers"
Year Founded (approximate)
1989
Baud Rate
9600
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
gay people, lesbian people
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031001082443/http://www.compuwho.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archived copy of Compu-Who website</a></li>
<li>Truesdell J. (2001). "Kingdom come: Gay days at Disney World." In Krupat K., McCreery P. (Eds.), <a href="Out at work: Building a gay‐labor alliance"><em>Out at Work: Building a Gay‐Labor Alliance</em></a> (pp. 211–231). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. - Article discusses Compu-Who's role in the founding and development of Gay Days at Disneyworld in Orlando, FL.</li>
<li>"<a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/2018/06/07/with-changes-to-orlandos-big-gay-weekend-coming-in-2019-we-look-back-on-the-history-of-gay-day/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">With changes to Orlando’s Big Gay Weekend coming in 2019, we look back on the history of Gay Day</a>," <em>Watermark Magazine</em> (June 7, 2018) - Article discussing Compu-Who's role in the founding and development of Gay Days at Disneyworld in Orlando, FL</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Compu-Who
bbs
gay people
lesbian people
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Local URL
The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website
http://www.queer.org.au/
Year Founded (approximate)
1995
Last Year Active (approximate)
2008
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
gay people, lesbian people, bisexual people, transgender people, queer people
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19961230081349/http://www.queer.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">queer.org.au</a> (Archived Dec 30, 1996)</li>
<li>Hosted and/or offered support to:
<ul>
<li>Australian Queer Resources Directory</li>
<li>Australian Student Christian Movement</li>
<li>FLOSS (the Fabulous Lesbians of Sydney Society)</li>
<li>GLOSS (Gay Lads of Sydney Uni)</li>
<li>#ozgay IRC channel</li>
<li>QNet IRC network</li>
<li>Net.Queer! Home Page</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
queer.org.au
Australia
bisexual people
gay people
lesbian people
New Zealand
queer people
transgender people
website
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Usenet Newsgroup
Individual Usenet Newsgroup
Year Founded (approximate)
1994
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aus.culture.lesbigay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aus.culture.lesbigay Google Groups archive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/aus.culture.lesbigay/aus.culture.lesbigay/JonTXOg5EfU/PWgtgMTuDfUJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aus.culture.lesbigay FAQ (posted May 19, 1996)</a></li>
<li>Listed in <a href="http://www.qrd.org/qrd/trans/1995/good.tranny.guide-03.01.95" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Good Tranny Guide</a>, a guide to trans resources specific to Australia and New Zealand (compiled March 1995)</li>
</ul>
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay people, lesbian people, bisexual people, transgender people
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
Australian English
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
aus.culture.lesbigay
Australia
bisexual people
gay people
lesbian people
New Zealand
transgender people
Usenet
-
https://www.queerdigital.com/files/original/14f3a25c203aab50b56431a928bb3b90.png
6c0fe01bf0b542a544d2ecca57091c41
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Year Founded (approximate)
1987
Last Year Active (approximate)
1996
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
Network Hub for StudsNet
Exterior References
Attached ad from <a href="https://archive.org/details/BAR_19950921/page/n53/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bay Area Reporter v. 25, n.38 (September 21, 1995)</a><br /><br />Listing from <a href="https://archive.org/details/boardwatch-1994-09/page/n123/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Boardwatch</em> (September 1994)</a>: "San Francisco, California since 07/87. Sysop: Spuds McKenzie. Using WildCat 3.91 with 24 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 8000 MB storage. Microcom at 28800 bps. $10 Monthly fee. STUDSNet Central - The worlds largest exclusively gay computer network. Add value to your system, connect to 50,000+ men and wimmin world-wide. Daily mail transfers, net-wide matchmaker and 50+ forums to choose from."
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
415
City and State/Province
San Francisco, CA
Abbreviations/Alias
Any other names used to refer to this forum
Studs
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay men
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
STUDS BBS
bbs
bbs network
gay people
STUDS BBS
STUDSNet
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Usenet Newsgroup
Individual Usenet Newsgroup
Year Founded (approximate)
1998
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
intergender individuals, non-binary individuals, androgyne individuals
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
American English
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.support.intergendered">alt.support.intergendered Google Groups archive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.support.intergendered/9arGB-gpngE">alt.support.intergendered Charter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_main.html">alt.support.intergended homepage</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html">What is Intergendered?</a> - Essay by newsgroup founder on origins and use of term</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/transgendertapes1072unse/page/38">Androgyne Online</a> in <em>Transgender Tapestry </em>#107 (Fall/Winter, 2004) - mention of the term "intergender" in relation to a discussion of androgyne identity</li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
alt.support.intergendered
androgyne individuals
intergender individuals
non-binary individuals
Usenet
-
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02afba2f39dc7c8770504aa202a12994
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b21ce18fe4c5c1714eeee7355405d58f
https://www.queerdigital.com/files/original/2d454fd2e85e3acba877aace8c3f5ad9.png
a22f51b95b2fb974a81d703d6a42a344
https://www.queerdigital.com/files/original/e0ac51ba855511c87b23b96bae68040f.zip
e91dc67f153b457d1b9dea538752dee3
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Primary Documents Collection
Description
An account of the resource
This collection holds primary documents (listings, programs, applications, etc) related to LGBTQ life online pre-2010. When possible, files have been listed with their original date of publication and source. When mirrored from established sites, their original source is attributed and linked. If you have files you would like to submit for inclusion, please feel free to contact Avery Dame-Griff at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.
Interactive Resource
A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Transgender Forum Compilation CD, Vol. 1 & 2
Description
An account of the resource
<span>This disc contains content originally published on <a href="tgforum.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TGForum.com</a> from April 1995 to December 1996. This disc was produced by</span> 3-D Communications, Inc. in 1997. <br /><br /><span>TGForum was founded in 1995 by Cindy Martin, who was soon joined by Jamie Faye Fenton and JoAnn Roberts. Over the years, TGForum has hosted a variety of information and services, including a web magazine, chat rooms, message boards, and sites for indivdiual community organizations. </span>In 2014, TGForum was sold by then-owner JoAnn Roberts to Prodigal Song Ventures.<span><br /></span><br /><strong>ISSN:</strong> 1092-5538<br /><strong>Checksum (SHA-256):</strong> a75f035a8b2d048b322dd39e847811af9d4148fa9f31fbf6bee247fa5b98c84b
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
3-D Communications, Inc.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
3-D Communications, Inc.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Contains content from April 1995 to December 1996.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Donated by Angela Gardner, managing editor of <a href="https://tgforum.com/wordpress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TGForum.com</a>.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Compact Disc
Language
A language of the resource
American English
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
All authors of content included on this disc retain copyright. Work is made available for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
TGForum
website
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll4/id/16565/show/16564/rec/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mentioned in short article in Kom Ut! International Newsletter</a>, included in <em>one Letter</em> V.38, N.8 (August 1993)</li>
<li>Appears in Textfiles.com's <a href="http://bbslist.textfiles.com/sweden/08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Swedish BBS List (for Area Code 08)</a></li>
<li>Included in <a href="https://pastebin.com/S3nMGV0K" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Swedish BBS list</a> circa 1994</li>
</ul>
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
08
City and State/Province
Stockholm, Sweden
Year Founded (approximate)
1993
Last Year Active (approximate)
1996
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
GayNet International, FidoNet (2:201/2106)
Baud Rate
9600
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay people
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
Swedish
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Gay Telegraph
bbs
FidoNet
gay people
GayNet International
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><a href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll4/id/16565/show/16564/rec/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mentioned in short article in Kom Ut! International Newsletter</a>, included in <em>one Letter</em> V.38, N.8 (August 1993)</li>
<li>Appears in Textfiles.com's <a href="http://bbslist.textfiles.com/sweden/042/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Swedish BBS List (Area code 042)</a></li>
<li>Included in <a href="http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/BBSLISTS/europe.phk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">list of European BBSes</a> (undated)</li>
<li>Included in <a href="https://pastebin.com/S3nMGV0K" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Swedish BBS list</a> circa 1994</li>
</ul>
Area Code
Area Code of BBS
42
City and State/Province
Helsingborg, Sweden
Year Founded (approximate)
Unknown, first referenced in 1992
Last Year Active (approximate)
Unknown
Network/Platform
Networks or Platforms the forum participated in
GayNet International, FidoNet (2:200/228)
Baud Rate
300-9600 baud
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay people
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
Swedish
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Lambda Scandinavia
bbs
gay people
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
BBS
A computer server running software that allows users to connect remotely via modem. to the system using a terminal or a terminal emulator. Sometimes also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS).
Name
Name of Forum
EON
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><span>Archived copy of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19991109051206/http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~eonw/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the website</a> (archived November 9, 1999)</span></li>
<li><span>Discussed in Mark McClelland's <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/Queer-Japan-from-the-Pacific-war-to-the-internet-age/oclc/56615766" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Queer Japan from the Pacific War to The Internet Age</em></a> (2005).</span></li>
<li><span>Discussed in Mitsuhashi, Junko. “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649370600673847">The Transgender World in Contemporary Japan: The Male to Female Cross‐dressers’ Community in Shinjuku</a>.” <i>Inter-Asia Cultural Studies</i> 7, no. 2 (June 2006): 202–27. doi:10.1080/14649370600673847.</span><span><br /></span></li>
<li><span>Discussed in <a href="https://www.pot.co.jp/books/isbn978-4-86642-019-6.html">トランスジェンダーの原理: 社会と共に「自分」を生きるために</a> by founder 神名龍子 (Jinna Ryūko)</span></li>
<li><span><a href="https://www4.hp-ez.com/hp/eon/page38">Writings and archived messages</a> from EON/W collected by 神名龍子 (Jinna Ryūko)</span></li>
</ul>
(Information and links provided by <a href="https://researchmap.jp/take_kyo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Takeuchi Kyoko</a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University)
City and State/Province
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Year Founded (approximate)
1990
Last Year Active (approximate)
1999
Baud Rate
N/A
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Transgender people; Transsexual people; Crossdressers
Primary Language
Primary language used by participants
Japanese
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
EON
bbs
crossdressers
EON
transgender people
transsexual people
website
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Queer Digital Community Catalog
Language
A language of the resource
English
Description
An account of the resource
<p dir="ltr"><span>This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. In early web research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to one's success. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten.<br /></span></p>
<h2>Why a Catalog?</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The QDHP has chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, the catalog has been designed to respect posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent.</p>
<h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>On Audience Labels</strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. The QDHP's metadata practices, then, follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, we use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, we categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference.</p>
<h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2>
<p>This catalog is by no means complete, and the QDHP is always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email Curator Avery Dame-Griff directly at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>.</p>
Website
A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ).
Exterior References
<ul>
<li><span>Discussed in Mark McClelland's <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/Queer-Japan-from-the-Pacific-war-to-the-internet-age/oclc/56615766" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Queer Japan from the Pacific War to The Internet Age</em></a> (2005).</span></li>
<li><span>Discussed in McLelland, M. (2000). "<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/135485650000600303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Out and About on Japan’s Gay Net</a>." <i>Convergence</i>, <i>6</i>(3), 16-33.<br /><br /></span></li>
</ul>
City and State/Province
Japan
Local URL
The URL of the local directory containing all assets of the website
<ul>
<li>BBS Phone Number: (03) 5377-2721</li>
<li>Earliest archived copy (12/12/1998): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19981212025308/http://www.gnj.or.jp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GayNet Japan (http://www.gnj.or.jp/)</a></li>
<li>Later address (first archived 03/30/2002): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020330015429/http://www.gnj.jp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.gnj.jp/</a></li>
</ul>
Year Founded (approximate)
1988 (BBS founded)
Last Year Active (approximate)
Still Active
Intended Audience
The forum's intended audience
Gay men
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
GayNet Japan