Surfing & Cruising     by Bret Kelly   Navigating the newsgroups I’ve talked a lot about the Web, covered IRC and touched on e—mail — the only thing left are the newsgroups. These are messages posted to a specific forum about a specific topic. For instance, can.motss is a newsgroup that contains exchanges that may…

Film sites worth lining up for It seems everyone is the spirit of the Toronto International Film Festivaland gearing up for all the big fall blockbusters. What better time to grabsome popcorn, get online and check out some notable film sites? Toronto International Film Festival – wvvw.bell.ca/ fllmfest/ 99 Official site with film lists, gala…

Surfing & Cruising It’s the end of the year as we know it This is the last issue of the millennium and it marks my anniver-sary; for a year and a bit I’ve been writing Surfing and Cruising, theworld’s longest running gay internet column. When I first took overthe column I wasn’t sure where it…

  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…