Gay & Lesbian Online: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web
Jeff Dawson
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Let us all drop to our knees and give thanks to Jeff Dawson, a brave man of apparently inexhaustible energy who has put together a guide to over 3,700 Web sites of all things queer on the Internet. The fourth edition of this deservedly bestselling series, Gay & Lesbian Online, is both "practical" and "an invaluable tool," as the publishers tell us, but it's also amusing and unexpectedly thorough, including alarming sites on the radical right and their plans to eliminate fun from America. Even if you find the Internet a tad overwhelming--much as my Aunt Bess did the first time she encountered a bidet in a Chicago hotel room, asking, "What in heaven's name do I do with it?"--Dawson's guide can lead you gently but firmly into the new world. Face it--some of us are still celebrating the invention of Wite-Out. It is time, as they say in every movie of the week, to let the healing begin. What, for example, is the latest part to pierce? What do lesbian gardeners recommend for planting during the California flood season? The mysteries are unfolding. --Jack Connolly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Dawson, a freelance writer and former editor for PC Home Journal and Mac Home Journal, has compiled the first trade guide to lesbian and gay cyberspace. Focusing primarily on the World Wide Web, the guide consists of chapters on a wide range of topics, each containing several breezily written paragraphs followed by a long list of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). As such the book reads more like a hot list than a guide?a format better suited to a web page, where users can simply click to go to the featured site. Annotations would have served the print format better. Currency is a problem facing any book on the Internet, and this title is no exception: Several of the sites mentioned have already disappeared or changed addresses in the few months since publication. More comprehensive and up-to-date information on lesbian and gay Internet resources can be identified using such queer-oriented search facilities as the Rainbow Query at GL WEB - Ellen Greenblatt, SUNY, Buffalo
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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