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Gay Ottawa Now! was an online newspaper published by Darry Marengere in 1999-2000. It focused on national affairs and became known as the "Gay Globe." At the time it was taken off-line monthly traffic was 100,000 hits, 17,000 page requests, and 8000 unique viewers. There were only four GLBT online newspapers in the world at the time and two of them were here in Canada: 365gay.com in Toronto published by Rob Sands and gayottawanow.com published in Ottawa by Darry Marengere. 365gay.com remained on-line until 2011 after having been acquired by ViaCom. |
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Take a tour of online GLBT news at the height of the "dot com's" with the e-book entitled, 1 of 4: Pioneering GLBT Online News. This story of how the online news site Gay Ottawa Now! was conceived, developed, grew and attracted the attention of viewers around the world combines easy-to-read text with photos, audio and screenshots of news articles. This e-book is not only a time capsule of GLBT events in 1999-2000 but will pleasantly jog the memories of GLBT people who were active in their communities at the time.
Written and published by Gay Ottawa Now! publisher Darry Marengere, 1 of 4: Pioneering GLBT Online News is also a must-have for anyone with an interest in GLBT media history or GLBT history in general. As only one of four GLBT online news sites in the world at the time, Gay Ottawa Now! broke through the geographic and physical barriers of traditional GLBT news print media and their news consumers world-wide. Gay Ottawa Now! tore the hinges off the closet doors as it ran around Parliament Hill in Ottawa, interviewed cabinet ministers and sent a clear message to newsmakers that Gay Ottawa Now! was an omnipresent and real-time messenger of their actions and words.
The e-book 1 of 4: Pioneering GLBT Online News is an ePub – "electronic publication" – file. This is the industry standard file format for e-books.
An ePub file will open in any app which can render it. The Books app on any Apple device will render it, for example. For Windows and Android operating systems, an e-book reader may have to be installed.
Copyright © Darry Marengere 1999-2024. All rights reserved. No part of 1 of 4: Pioneering GLBT Online News may be reproduced without the written permission of Darry Marengere.
Published by Darry Marengere.
1 of 4: Pioneering GLBT Online News is complimentary. Please respect copyright.
Download 1 of 4: Pioneering GLBT Online News.
Darry Marengere
darrycanuck@proton.me