Issue #124 – Not so dirty old men

Surfing & Cruising
Not so dirty old men
Often forgotten in the gay “scene” is that we are all getting older.
The Net has opportunities for social activity beyond the club scene. —

Surfing & Cruising Profile of Boostboys.com by Bret Kelly BoostBoys.com has been nominated for a CyberSocket.comWeb Award in the Clubs & Events category. You can vote for theirsite until Dec. 31 with a chance to win prizes. I spoke with Webdesigner Jason Ford about the site: How did the Boost Boys Web site come…
Surfing & Cruising by Bret Kelly One big happy group Have you noticed the explosion of “e—mail groups” on the Web lately?In the old days (pre-Web), they would have been considered a listserv, butI can’t remember the last time that I subscribed to a listserv, it seemed soclumsy. In case you didn’t know, a listserv…
Surfing & cruising The boy in a bubble by Bret Kelly The idea of living one’s life online is a strange thing to me.Knowing that people are constantly watching my every movekind of frightens me. I feel that I live in a fish bowl when I’m rec-ognized in the village or at a club but…
Surfing & Cruising Pick your tunes online by Bret Kelly I’ll confess, I downloaded Madonna’s new single, Music, off theNet back in June. A week before the official release, I downloadedthe entire album track by track. As I write this column, I amdownloading the bonus track that’s only included on the Japaneseversion. Later, I will…
Surfing & Cruising DVDs on your computer by Bret Kelly Something I haven’t touched on, but think it’s time for, is thesubject of DVD [Digital Versatile Disc?) You can play the diskson your DVD player, but you can also shove them into yourcomputer. Newer computers come with a DVD/CD ROM drivebut you can’t play…
Surfing & Cruising by Bret Kelly God loves fags I avoid sites where the likes of me are not welcome, however the recent murder of yet another gay man prompted me to search some out for this arti- cle. My starting point was Hate Watch (www.hatewatch.org); an organization that began at Harvard University from…