1 50 5 http://queerdigital.com/files/original/481f234976bab0d566888c581e92d703.zip 58dab4c67c712c4799789a5a33d9191e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: Documents Description An account of the resource This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards. This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <ul> <li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li> <li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li> <li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li> <li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li> </ul> In total, the collection holds 12,496‬ files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents. However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. If you would like messages you wrote to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: Rethinking AIDS Mailing Lists Description An account of the resource Collection of files (all in plain text [.txt] format) held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040422173703/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/articles/rethink/">rethink</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041019001434/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/articles/quilty/">quilty</a> folders of the AIDS Info BBS. Both folders contain message archives for the "rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists, both of which focused on rethinking AIDS orthodoxy. For more information on the AIDS Info BBS, see the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Community Catalog entry</a> and the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Documents collection</a> landing page. Messages have not been anonymized. If you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Total files: 6,366 Files Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1994 - 2001 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Plain text files AIDS Info BBS mailing list http://queerdigital.com/files/original/1f27b8bd052a3fad4253fdd87687ec18.zip 1804ef61e383b9179c920231b0185b00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: Documents Description An account of the resource This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards. This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <ul> <li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li> <li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li> <li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li> <li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li> </ul> In total, the collection holds 12,496‬ files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents. However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. If you would like messages you wrote to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: Caregivers Mailing List Description An account of the resource Collection of files (all in plain text [.txt] format) held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041101120516/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/caregivers/">caregivers</a> folder of the AIDS Info BBS. Folders contain messages posted to the "caregivers" mailing list, which offered support for caregivers of PWAs. For more information on the AIDS Info BBS, see the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Community Catalog entry</a> and the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Documents collection</a> landing page. Messages were originally anonymized by BBS sysop Ben Gardiner: poster e-mail addresses have been removed, and all posting dates have been updated to the date of their anonymization. However, if you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Total files: 3,334 Files Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available AIDS Info BBS Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Plain text files Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Unknown AIDS Info BBS mailing list http://queerdigital.com/files/original/39542b9e9268fc05f0d087b6f694c9bb.zip 704e8fdc5904c2a21dfc6972f67e084b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: Documents Description An account of the resource This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards. This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <ul> <li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li> <li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li> <li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li> <li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li> </ul> In total, the collection holds 12,496‬ files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents. However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. If you would like messages you wrote to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: AIDS Periodicals Description An account of the resource Collection of files (all in plain text [.txt] format) held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100408074507/http://aidsinfobbs.org/periodicals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Periodicals</a> portion of the AIDS Info BBS. Newsletter age varies, but covers the late 1980s up to the early 2000s, depending on the publication. File hierarchy (listed below) mirrors original source. Total files: 772 Files Archive includes: <ul> <li>actup - Treatment Issues Digest, published weekly by ACT UP/NY's Treatment Issues committee</li> <li>atn - Issues of AIDS Treatment News, published by John James</li> <li>bealive - Issues of the Los Angeles-based Being Alive Newsletter</li> <li>bealivew - Issues of the Los Angeles-based Women Being Alive Newsletter</li> <li>beta - Issues of the Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, published by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation</li> <li>catie - Issues of the Treatment Update newsletter</li> <li>critpath - Issues of the Critical Path AIDS Project Newsletter</li> <li>eurocaso - Newsletter published in Europe, circa 1992</li> <li>focus - Newsletter published by the AIDS Health Project, which was affiliated with University of California, San Francisco</li> <li>gmhcissues - Treatment Issues, a newsletter published by the Gay Men's Health Crisis</li> <li>kairos - Newsletters from Kairos House, a support center for AIDS caregivers located in San Francisco.</li> <li>naplwa - Newsletter for the National Association of People Living With AIDS</li> <li>napwa - Newsletter for the National Association of People With AIDS</li> <li>pediatric - The Pediatric AIDS Newsletter is published by SPIN, the Service Provider Informatiion Network of the Boston AIDS Consortium</li> <li>projnform - Newsletter and documents produced by San Francisco-based organization Project Inform</li> <li>search - Newsletter of Los Angeles-based Searchlight group</li> <li>seasons - Newsletter of The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center in Oakland, CA.</li> </ul> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available AIDS Info BBS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988-2003 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Plain text files AIDS Info BBS periodicals http://queerdigital.com/files/original/a7908d7876feca70fb5fc2f6c31e994d.zip c374d7e0403c777808f2220699d6edcf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: Documents Description An account of the resource This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards. This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <ul> <li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li> <li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li> <li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li> <li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li> </ul> In total, the collection holds 12,496‬ files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents. However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. If you would like messages you wrote to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: BBS Fora Description An account of the resource Collection of files (all in plain text [.txt] format) held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041117001026/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/openforum/">openforum</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041019014656/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/thisbbs/">thisbbs</a> folders of the AIDS Info BBS. Folders contain message archvies for the openforum and thisbbs sections of the AIDS Info BBS. For more information on the AIDS Info BBS, see the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Community Catalog entry</a> and the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Documents collection</a> landing page. Messages have not been anonymized. If you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Total files: 2,796 files Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available AIDS Info BBS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1987 - 1997 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Plain text files AIDS Info BBS bbs http://queerdigital.com/files/original/4b8022038deb8dffb23916c7a3549d3c.png f5bda335d4fee76bf7f766d0e72fadc5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Digital Community Catalog Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource This catalog collects basic information and resources on LGBTQ-related online communities prior to 2010, particularly those from the so-called Web 1.0 period. Each catalog entry includes information on the group’s format, its approximate dates of activity, its audience and topical focus, and links to other materials discussing the group, such as editorial columns, personal essays, or archival materials. One of the driving impulses for the creation of this catalog was to offer a starting place for research into early LGBTQ life online. As I found in my own research, simply knowing the name of a place or person could, in some cases, be key to my archival research. Beyond just its research utility, however, this catalog is also meant to preserve the memory, if not the content, of communities and groups whose names might otherwise be lost or forgotten. <h2>Why a Catalog?</h2> I’ve chosen to focus on a catalog, as opposed to an archive, for several reasons. Firstly, at its most basic level, an archive is focused on primary material—in this case, the content of posts. However, archiving for most online groups from the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s is often incomplete at best, so in many cases, there’s limited to no archival material available. Instead, what exists in many cases is secondary material, writing describing or reflecting on posters’ experiences with and in these spaces. The catalog, ideally, links these disparate materials together in order to give a slightly fuller picture of the online landscape at any given time. Secondly, posters in early LGBTQ groups often wrote (sometimes in detail) about close and personal issues in their lives under the assumption that their posts would remain private within the group. Given this, I’ve designed the catalog to respect (to the best of my ability) posters’ initial expectation of privacy. Linked content has all been previously published in other venues, and any other detailed personal reflections submitted by users specifically for the catalog have been made public with their consent. <h2>What Qualifies A Community For Inclusion?</h2> There are no specific criteria determining inclusion in the QDCC. However, many of the communitites currently listed in the catalog have multiple references in contemporaneous periodicals, newsletters, web guides, or other LGBTQ-related informational websites. These sources are key for establishing not only the existence of a space, but its particular attributes. <h2 dir="ltr">On Audience Labels</h2> All of the communities cataloged include descriptive metadata culled from various sources, including contemporaneous listings in print publications and online reference guides. However, the terminology used in archival sources does not always match current preferred terms. <a href="http://notchesblog.com/2017/11/28/troubling-terms-the-label-problem-in-transgender-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As has been discussed elsewhere</a>, retroactively applying labels with which individuals or spaces might not have identified is a politically fraught act. In my metadata practices, then, I follow a policy similar to that of the <a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Transgender Archive</a>: whenever possible, I use terminology included in contemporaneous decriptions. If terminology is not used or a detailed description is not available, I categorize using terminology derived from the archival reference. <h2>Adding Communities to the Catalog</h2> This catalog is by no means complete, and I'm always looking for new groups to add, if additional information is available. Please feel free to suggest a community for inclusion using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9oGcXtpUNGXXhEBIYdZlb40HTj3EDzG_fk4xltxxcCck6AQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this form</a>, or email me directly at <a href="mailto:adame@winona.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adame@winona.edu</a>. BBS Bulletin Board System Area Code Area Code of BBS 415 area code, later 714 area code City and State/Province San Francisco, CA Year Founded (approximate) <ul> <li>Founded 1986</li> <li>Moved to Gopher in 1994</li> <li>aidsinfobbs.org opened in 1997</li> </ul> Last Year Active (approximate) Still active Network/Platform Networks or Platforms the forum participated in Computerized AIDS Information Network (CAIN); FidoNet (Node Address: 1:103/927); AEGIS (AIDS Education General Information System) Network (National Hub) Primary Language Primary language used by participants American English Exterior References Attached classified ad from <a href="http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/sfbagals/Sentinal/1989_SFS_Vol17_No17_Apr_.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Sentinel (April 27, 1989)</a> <ul> <li>Archived version of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aidsinfobbs.org</a> (Archived Dec 22, 1997)</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020707/http://aidsinfobbs.org/description.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Description</a> of the web version, written by Ben Gardiner (Archived Dec 22, 1997)</li> <li><a href="https://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/BEN-TAW.HTM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interview with Ben Gardiner</a>, first published in the New York Native (July 30, 1990)</li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/details/bbsdocumentary-interview-gardiner-2002-07" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Audio interview with sysop Ben Gardiner</a>, conducted by Jason Scott as part of the BBS Documentary (2002)</li> <li><a href="https://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/BEN.HTM">Obituary for Ben Gardiner</a>, by friend John Lauritsen (2010)</li> <li><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ben-Gardiner-dies-gay-rights-activist-actor-3271651.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Obituary for Ben Gardiner</a> from the SFGate (Feb 27, 2010)</li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS AEGIS Network AIDS Info BBS bbs CAIN FidoNet people living with HIV/AIDS