Homo.net
Homo.net one since 1996, online community for homosexuals . Homo.net serves as a supraregional contact portal and information portal for gay , bisexual and transsexual men in German-speaking countries. The offer can be used free of charge in all areas. The offer is financed by sponsors and banner advertising .
Contact offers
The homo.net portal offers a moderated Internet relay chat , classified ads and an automatic, profile-based dating service.
Gay scene guide
Since July 2000, the scene guide has been offering addresses of homosexual associations, initiatives, advisory services as well as meeting points and cruising areas. The scene guide is based on the voluntary cooperation of the users who introduce changes and take care of the editorial. In October 2008 the Schwule City Guide was spun off into an independent project under the name gay-szene.net.
Gay Lexicon
Since July 2008 the homo.net portal has been supplemented by a gay glossary of terms . This project aims to explain the terms used in the gay scene in the contact areas . All terms used in the classifieds are compared with the Homolex Index and the definition is automatically linked to the ad text. In June 2015, the gay lexicon was spun off into an independent project under the name homolex.com.
History of homo.net
The gay online community was in 1996 from the gay Oscar Wilde bookstore Frankfurt out as homo.de founded. The homo.de project was recognized by the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1999 as the best themed bookstore on the German-speaking Internet for its range of products and the use of community services for the gay community. As a result of the cooperation with the English Gay Times publisher Millivres Prowler Group , an internationalization of the portal under the new name homo.net started in 2000 for a short time.
Studies
Due to the easy accessibility of a large homosexual audience under the anonymous conditions of the Internet, homo.net became a partner of numerous online surveys and medical and sociological studies in the context of HIV prevention. Phenomena such as communication between homosexual men about their serostatus , but also risk behavior such as barebacking were examined.
- Michael Bochow : Kontaktseiten Study (2006) Examines the basic knowledge of the contact side participants about infection routes and risks as well as the current risk behavior.
- KABaSTI (2007) The Robert Koch Institute investigates the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of homosexual men regarding sexually transmitted infections in Germany nationwide.
- 1. ADAM Study ( What Gays Really Want , ADAM No. 244, Foerster Media , October 2007) The gay magazine ADAM examined attitudes towards partnership and sex in different age groups. It was shown that the relationship orientation in the online partner search decreased with increasing age.
- 2. ADAM study ( Adam is looking for Adonis - or Hercules?, ADAM No. 245 Foerster Media, January 2008) The gay magazine ADAM examined the partner preference of gay contact portal participants on homo.net depending on their own body image.
- 3. ADAM study ( dream man wanted: The ordinary homosexual , ADAM No. 246 Foerster Media, March 2008) The gay magazine ADAM examined the lifestyle groups among the homo.net contact forum participants through a socio-scientific analysis of the leisure interests mentioned
References
- Heise.de: Between Hoffen und Bangen , c't 22/99 ( Memento from August 17, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
- Antipole: From bookstore to online forum , No. 46, 1999
- Heise.de: Homo.de plans pink joint venture , March 10, 2000
- Die Zeit: Clueless and Risky , No. 9, 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ HOMOH No. 336 , Homolex - Wikipedia for Warme , Foerster Media, November 2008, PDF download ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ KABaSTI study 2006 , summary, website of the Robert Koch Institute ( memento of the original from March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ADAM No. 244 , What Gays Really Want , Foerster Media, September / October 2007, PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ADAM No. 245 , Adam is looking for Adonis - or Hercules? , Foerster Media, January / February 2008, PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ADAM No. 246 , Wanted: The Ordinary Homosexual , Foerster Media March / April 2008, PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
