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Aravosis thinks AOL's problems are more oversight than malice, but he hopes the company gets more sensitive to its gay consumers before the relationship sours. "It's a great service. All anyone's asking is for them to address the problems...
...that Time Warner and AOL have joined forces, does that mean I won't be able to get my TIME magazine at peak demand times? STEVEN GUICHARD Olympia, Wash...
According to estimates by Internet demographers, 20% of AOL's 21 million subscribers are gay, and at nearly all hours, the men-for-men chat rooms are filled with guys looking for Mr. Right. (On a random night in AOL's Town Square area, 140 of the first 200 chat rooms were labeled M4M.) "Unless you're John McCain, you can't always look at someone's face and know they're gay," says Internet-privacy expert John Aravosis, jokingly referring to the candidate's remark about his ability to spot gays in the military. "The chat rooms...
...changed the world," says Peter Ian Cummings, publisher of XY magazine, a title aimed at young gay men. "If you ask gay men under 25 how they meet people, I think 99% would say they've met people online, and the vast majority of them would say they use AOL." (Women-for-women chat rooms are not yet nearly as integral to lesbian dating...
While the chat rooms are filling a void for millions of men, the gay community's relationship with AOL is more of a love-hate affair. In 1998 an AOL employee let slip the identity of gay naval officer Timothy R. McVeigh to a Navy investigator, resulting in McVeigh's discharge for violation of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. AOL issued a public apology, but complaints have persisted that AOL holds gay customers to different, stricter standards, both in chat rooms and on personal profiles. "There's a sense," says Cummings, "that they don't want...