Queers and the Internet

Abstract

The internet and electronic bulletin board systems offer the chance to test new paradigms for communications and the expression of sexuality and theory - for queers and non-queers alike. Mailing lists, electronic mail, web pages, MOOs/MUDs and electronic chatting all offer new ways of expressing and analysing queerness. Traditional broadcast media resort to scandal whilst passing over the opportunities for twisting and bending genders and identities and undermining the phallic supremacy. Electronic communication also enables a new generation of cyberqueer activism - on queer discrimination, HIV/AIDS and gay, lesbian and other rights, all the more important in an age when heterosupremacy can reign electronically as well as in RL (Real Life).