Completing the Circuit

Lynn Conway's research on integrated circuits advanced the Internet age by years and now she finds herself revisiting her earliest, groundbreaking work in computers, which she long kept secret because, back then, she existed as a man, Scientific American, December 2000.

Through the Gender Labyrinth

How a bright boy with a penchant for tinkering grew up to be one of the top women in her high-tech field, LA Times (available free with registration until two weeks after publication date), November 19, 2000.

PlanetOut and Gay.com to Merge

The Internet's two biggest GLBT players are coming together in a marriage that executives say will please investors and consumers, November 15 - December 28, 2000
Media releases: PlanetOut Partners Merger Letter, PlanetOut and Gay.com
Media coverage: AP, Reuters, Bay Area Reporter, PlanetOut's Rex Wockner, an amusing take from Salon.com, a serious article from Philadelphia Gay News, and a year-end review from the Bay Area Reporter.

American Online Chairman Case and Wife Donate $8.35 Million to Private School Run by Anti-Gay Ministry

A roundup of news, controversy, and commentary about the $8.35 million donation made in 1999 by American Online chairman Stephen M. Case and his wife Jean to the anti-gay Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, includes items from Gay.com, Miami Herald, PlanetOut, GLAAD, New York Times, Philanthropy News Digest, Sun-Sentinel, Southern Voice, Bay Area Reporter, Datalounge.com, Salon.com, Industry Standard, and Bay Windows, October 18 - December 7, 2000.

GayLebanon.com Case Causes Stir

Lebanese government charges ISP owner and human rights organizer with defaming the nation even though they had no role in hosting a GayLebanon.com web site, Beirut Daily Star, September 25, 2000

New Policy Group Wants to Test Online Filters

Philadelphia Gay News, September 22-28, 2000.

Online Policy Group Commits to Universal Internet Access

RainbowQuery.com, September 14, 2000.

Online Policy Group Leads Effort to Fight Discrimination Online

Queery.com, September 14, 2000.

PlanetOut and Gay.com: Which Is the Leading LGBT Community Portal?

With both PlanetOut and Gay.com quoting Media Metrix data, it is difficult to determine which company is really the leading online portal for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Read Gay.com's announcement of July 24, 2000, and PlanetOut's announcement of August 23, 2000.

High Risk Sex and Cyberspace

Results of a study of the role of Internet use in sexual contacts, Bay Area Reporter, August 3, 2000.

"Inside AOL"

by Michael Stubbs, Genre, August 2000, No. 84, pp. 60-63.

PlanetOut Censors XY Web Site

Controversy erupts over the motivations and methods of PlanetOut's blocking of XY magazine web site resulting in termination of licensing agreement, Bay Area Reporter, July 27, 2000.

Scary Love

XY magazine manifesto regarding motivations of advertisers who refuse to advertise in the magazine, at one point blocked by xy.com site owner PlanetOut.

Internet Trysts and STDs

Followup to stories raising privacy issue related to syphilis contact tracing of participants in the AOL SFM4M chatroom, PlanetOut, July 26, 2000.

Bait & Switch: Online Partners

Profile of Online Partners CEO Lowell Selvin and a description of the gay.com online portal for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, Red Herring, July 2000.

When You’re Blocked Online, Where Can You Go?

Virginia is bisexual, and her support group at Oasis Magazine is one of the many sites for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals blocked by the software being promoted last week at the heavily publicized Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children in Washington, American Reporter, December 9, 1997.

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Organizations and Related Publications

QueerNet and Online Policy Group to Merge

Management of QueerNet/PLUSnet and of the Online Policy Group today announced a merger designed to bolster universal access to production and distribution of community-based information on the Internet, December 12, 2000.

Out on the Internet

Remarks about filtering, online access, online privacy, and digital defamation prepared by Will Doherty for a Stanford University panel discussion at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Awareness Week, April 3, 2000

Access Denied, Version 2.0: The Continuing Threat Against Internet Access and Privacy and Its Impact on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community

GLAAD's updated analysis and testimonial from December 1999.

Barriers to the Internet: Race, Class and Society

GLAAD Executive Director Joan M. Garry's remarks to the Harvard Internet Conference on May 28, 1998.

Access Denied, Version 1.0: The Impact of Internet Filtering Software on the Lesbian and Gay Community

GLAAD's first analysis and testimonial from December 1997.

Deaf Queer Resource Center

"The place" to find the most comprehensive and accurate information about the Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered community.

GayScribe.com

A resource from journalist and promotional copywriter Gip Plaster. It features the Ultimate Listing of Gay & Lesbian Publication - the world's only free, virtually complete listing of gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines - as well as a Reading Room and more.

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