Lesbian & Gay Lifestyles - Digital Queeries
 
Notice: None of the business or web sites listed here, is not necessarily owned or operated by people of a particular ethnic or sexual orientation. Updated May 17, 2002

Digital Queeries Reference pages  P1 / P 2 - Short takes

Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives were created to preserve the history of the lesbian and gay community, contains a selection of archival holdings and library collections. Visitors to this site can search through the various categories, which include records, photographs, monographs, periodicals and artwork. Those interested are also encouraged to contribute any historically relevant items of their own.

Commercial Closet.org
This user friendly site chronicles the depiction of gays in advertising. Were the guys in the Volkswagen's 1997 "da da da" ad more that room-mates and in a U.S. Ad., for Minute Maid, what's with Popeye and Bluto getting tattoos that read "Buddies for Life"?

PFLAG.
Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays in Canada is a support group for friends and family members of persons who have just "come out" as being gay, lesbian or bisexual. This directory lists the groups,  local chapters across the country.

Gay Cybersex Addiction
Prefer chat rooms to face-to-face encounters? Rather trade jpg's than conversation? Check out this site, a resource that's entertaining as it is informative, but never too preachy.

Gay West community Network - Toronto
Community centre on the web in Queer Toronto west, Ontario. Numerous community groups A lesbian and gay newspaper called Gay West Village News,  that carries local social club news and national political news . Business drectory, bars, entertainment areas. Gay Toronto and Queer West Village history, community support, social events and westend travel guide. Located in the Gay Toronto's - New Queer West Village.

Gay Seniors.
Often over looked,  but not forgotten,  are those 55 plus.

Inq Magazine
A non-profit bimonthly journal exploring health, creativity and personal growth.
Surplus funds from this project will go towards creating a Healing Arts Centre for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community.  Inq Magazine, is a division of Q-Age Spiritual Network.

Life on Brian's Beat
Personal web directory of John Harnick, with many interesting alternative links not found in Gay Canada's directory. Brian was John's partner who died of AIDS.

Out Voice.com
You may not have heard of them all, but there are hundreds of openly gay recording artists out there, many of whom can be found at Out Voice. Here you will find individual tracks from out musicians, independent artists, some main stream. As a bonus there is also a cool collection of more than 50 other gay music related sites.

What the Bible has to say about Lesbians and Gays, homophobia and other challenges. Ontario consultants on Religious Tolerance

300 Gay Movies
A Germany-English site covers a period from 1930 to today. These are not porn movies.

Scott's Gay Dictionary & Slang usage with 5,000 entries

Straightacting.com
Lots of gay guys these days, say they are straight acting, that means you wouldn't know they are gay, they say they are just average guys,  prove it to others by taking this fun test.

Temenos.net
Networks for youth, seniors, faith communities (hindu, muslim, buddhist, christian, jewish, pagan), lgbt sports enthusiasts (baseball, basketball, football, etc...), and people of colour (Black, API, Native American and Latinos.)  Message boards in various U.S.A. cities.
As well as search engine with over 1,500 links to progressive LGBT sites.

toronto-underground.com
On the fringe, or off the beaten path.  Independently run restaurants, tattoo parlours, record shops, where to find the best hair dye...gay community, you get the picture.

University of Toronto
University of Toronto, Sexual Education & Peer Counselling Centre for Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals.

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Gay & Lesbian Search Engines & Directories

Gay Canada.com
Excellant resource directory. A little confusing at first, as you arrive on a personal portal page for your message boards, mail, classifieds, chat and instant messenger. You have to dig a little deeper to find the directories.

365gay.com is now charging for email accounts. Boo Hiss, stick with yahoo or hotmail.

CanGay.com
A little stingy on Canadian information, mostly American content, more of vehicle for the  Pride Television network. Pride Television network charges $7-14 dollars on your cable bill, and is mostly old re-runs.

Gay Crawler.com
A gay web portal with 120 categories a different set-up than
Gay Canada.com, head office is in Montreal and can be searched in French or English.
The now charge up to $300 Cnd., to list your personal or commerical web site.

gayniagara.com
Gay Niagara Falls, Onario: Listings for accomodations, businesses, calendar of events, chat, classifieds, cuising areas, dining, night life, newsletter and Pride events.

Gay Toronto
Local information on businesses, support organizations, events, feisty forum board [see classifieds], city maps for local gay bars and an adult section.

Gaywired.com has nice layout, with rather terse links: scene, play, local, guide, travel, view (real player), life, work, shop, personals, and a built in instant pager which looks like AOL.

Gay Insider  - BgladGay Zoo  -  Homorama Queery  - Gayscape
These search engines have much the same type of categories and directories for searching about gay information. Gay Insider, Gayscape and Queery,  do list current events, book reviews, shopping malls, personal ads, magazines, adult films and music. You can also add your URL

Gay Yellow pages national USA and Canada business directory.

Findgaysites.com
They came, went and now there back again! One of the best working gay search engine listing sites, rather than just a listing site, you can rate sites and leave comments and search all the links they have. Well worth a visit and definitely worth getting listed on!

the pinkpages.info  Canadian gay & lesbian dirctory. New website, design, look and staff. the largest print publication in Canada.

Rural gays
Designed as a source for news, stories and personal links for people living in rural areas of United States, some Canadian content.

World Pride listings
Toronto digital queeries visitors guide for,  various pride events in Canada and  around the world. Updated every year.

Continued: Digital Queeries Reference pages P 2 - Short takes

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