eeking Out
How gay community and the interwebs are enjoying a more than civil union
BY KATE X MESSER
Fausto Fernós
Many a late night was spent AltaVistaing, typing in letters, words, phrases. What was I searching for? Resonance?…
Fausto Fernós in his podcasting studio in Chicago. Photo by JasonSmith.com
Fausto Fernós
Many a late night was spent AltaVistaing, typing in letters, words, phrases. What was I searching for? Resonance? Connection? Community? Luv? Similar seekers in the ether? “Lesbian Web pages.” “Dyke Austin.” “Queer Texas.”
Two important things happened in the mid-Nineties: I came out, and so did the Internet.
As Web ubiquity and gay cultural acceptance have each evolved in the 16 years hence, their realities, in my mind, are forever interfused. The rise of the Internet kick-started a coalescence of worldwide queer community. My personal coming out experience was certainly enhanced by the emergence of online communities – as were the experiences, connections, livelihoods, and survival of queers across the globe. And that’s still true for so many people.
“There are still places that exist where you can be fired for being gay. It boggles my mind,” says Trish Bendix, 26, Chicago freelance writer, blog editor of Logo/MTV’s AfterEllen.com, and panel moderator for SXSW Interactive’s Engaging the Queer Community, the first concertedly LGBT-themed panel ever at SXSW Interactive.
Oh how fun – not! (OK, well, maybe a little bit.) Gay Avatar Sex Parties! Who knew. Includes the following jewel in the comments: “Well, let’s hope these Gayvatards aren’t like Puerto Ricans and don’t…
Oh how fun – not! (OK, well, maybe a little bit.) Gay Avatar Sex Parties! Who knew. Includes the following jewel in the comments: “Well, let’s hope these Gayvatards aren’t like Puerto Ricans and don’t migrate to Orlando.”
A take -off of the Mac vs PC ads… with Abs.
Here’s a video that gives the State of the Internet 2010 with lots of facts, figures and illustrations.
Check out this awesome to the x-treme maxx snowboarding video, showing how two cute German guys turned old Apple laptops into a snowboard.
Boing Boing has an edited screen capture of a Chatroulette prank being played by 4chan /b/ members on unsuspecting users. Marc & Fausto seemed to be having fun with the service, but be careful, as…
A German ice walker was rescued after a woman who was several hundred miles away spotted him on a webcam.
The local tourist board of St Peter-Ording has a webcam so people can watch the…
A German ice walker was rescued after a woman who was several hundred miles away spotted him on a webcam.
The local tourist board of St Peter-Ording has a webcam so people can watch the sunsets. Here’s the link to the webcam but with all the media attention it’s getting, it seems down or taking a bit to load.
“Hitler has been dreaming about the day that Apple’s tablet will be announced. That day has come and he is not pleased.”
Yesterday Apple announced their highly anticipated tablet computer and they named it the iPad. The unfortunate name has gotten lots of laughs because it sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
Comedian Chris Condren joins us to sort through the iPad jokes plus: Leonardo Da Vinci’s head will be dug up for a forensic analysis to see if he’s the real Mona Lisa, European cemetery for soccer fans, Johnny Weirs battle over wearing faux fur and “Poltergesit” actress Zelda Rubenstein dies at 76.
Yesterday Apple announced their highly anticipated tablet computer which just may revolutionize newspapers, ebook readers and academic textbooks.
And they named it the iPad. The unfortunate name has gotten lots of laughs because it sounds like a feminine hygiene product, even prompting one newscaster to talk about her cooter on daytime news, almost.
Was the prophetic Mad TV sketch on to something 3 years ago when it parodied the iPod as an iPad?
Listen as the very funny Chris Condren joins us to sort through the jokes about the iPad going around online and the five stages of iPad grief.
Plus, all the hot news of the day.
The debate on whether the Mona Lisa was a self portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci’s in drag continues with exciting plans to exhume his head for a forensic analysis.
Europe’s new cemetery for soccer fans. Will Star Trek, Showgirls or the Cubs fans get their own final resting place?
Horatio the upside down goldfish, Johnny Weirs battle over wearing faux fur, and the world’s ugliest fish in danger of extinction.
And now she can finally go into the light, actress Zelda Rubenstein best known for playing the eccentric psychic in the film ‘Poltergeist,’ died yesterday of natural causes, she was 76.
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This is all I could think of when I heard that Apple was actually going to name their new tablet computer the iPad.
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