GBLT Resources

Wow, it was really my pleasure to review this site! The National Sexuality Resource Center is a part of San Francisco State University, and this site is full of highly literate and reliable information about human sexuality. The NSRC has this to say about the purpose of their web presence,"It's hard to find illuminating, honest and engaging stories about sexuality in the mainstream media--and that's what makes NSRC special. We strive to promote healthy sexuality, dispel myths and encourage sexual literacy for everyone." You'll find their publications, research, dialogue section (social networking tool designed to connect folks who work with sexuality issues), and upcoming training information on the site quite swiftly using their great navigation system. You can also look up article of particular interest to you, such as those dealing with sex and disability. This is an astounding resource, and will go in my personal bookmarks list. It is worth noting that they have a Spanish language section as well. - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2010-09-25
Cost: Free Advertising Content: None
Category Listings: Advice / Education, GBLT Resources, Safer Sex Info, Sex Work Info, Sexuality Info

Take a moment and imagine a leather Facebook or Myspace, and then imagine it being run by and for kinky folks. That is exactly what Fetlife is! It is the coolest new community site out there for pervs, and it is absolutely 100% free. I had been hearing the buzz about this new spot on the web from a few of my lifestyle friends, and I finally decided to go set up an account and take a look myself. Many years ago I had been on other sites that promised community and allowed free communication, but since those sites have sold to other companies their soul has left the building and communication costs money. It is also communication that is no longer under the nurturing ownership of perverts with a personal interest in our tribe. I'd lost interest, and so had most of my friends. I was hoping that this site could be some of what I was missing on the old ones. Wow, I wasn't disappointed! I immediately ran into some of my old friends, and then ran off to recruit new ones. It is easy to sign up. Once you have, then you set up a profile. You can add pics to it, and you'll never run into that "you have to have such and such membership" to view pics or show them to others. There are social groups here with ongoing forum conversations, so you can sign up for topics that interest you (or create your own groups). There is a mail system that acts like a personal bulletin board for private conversations, so you don't lose track of what has been said to anyone. You can post writing, see what your friends are doing, and a lot more. A lot of talented pervs are posting writing and engaging in conversation here. I've met a lot of new friends. There is a small amount of advertising, but it is done really tastefully and never gets in the way. You can write to the folks that run the site, and they will actually write you back. I've been in love with this place and raving about it for the last several weeks. This is one of the few sites that didn't ask for review. I sought out the owner and asked him if I could post one. It is that good. I feel like I'm giving you guys an early Christmas gift. Go check it out! This is the next big kinky community site! They are going to be huge, and they will stay huge as long as they keep the spirit that they have now. - Vamp » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2009-11-05
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: Advice / Education, BDSM Resources, Blogs / Journals - BDSM Dominant, Blogs / Journals - BDSM Submissive, Blogs / Journals - Couples, Blogs / Journals - Sex, GBLT Resources, Personal Ads, Sexuality Info, Uncategorizable

Two words: Lesbian Fiction. I almost never get to review this, and it is some of my favorite stuff! This site features, "...[O]riginal, well-crafted, strongly-plotted lesbian and female-centric works of short fiction." There are only about four stories here at the moment, and they are as diverse in genre as science fiction and historical romance. I'm certain that once the word gets out, they'll have a lot more available. If you are looking for a good home for your fiction, you might want to submit something. I'm a bit sketchy about the content that they eventually want to fill the site with, but from what I read they seem to want to represent non-kinky lesbian fiction. In addition to the stories, there are book reviews and interviews with authors. I love the tone and design of the site, and I think this definitely addresses a group of folks that are really under represented in erotica. Great idea, and great execution. I see wonderful things for these folks, once the authors start streaming in. - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2008-11-05
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: alternative / sci-fi erotica, GBLT Resources, mainstream erotica

This free site is the home of Jodi Payne, an author of both gay and lesbian erotica. Her work has been published by Torquere Press, and can be ordered there, although I didn't see any purchasing links directly from her home site here. What is available here is a lot of sampling of free fiction, and exerpts from the published pieces. She is a good wordsmith, both in the lesbian erotica close to her heart and also in gay male fiction [what I saw was dominant/submissive leathermen stories] which she cowrites with a male author. She has links to blogs, commentary on works in progress, and so forth. I wish her well with her writing. - Peter

Date Reviewed: 2007-10-30
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: GBLT Resources, mainstream erotica

A profusely illustrated blog by and for gay men of color, this is a great resource and fills a much needed void. Whether for Korean twinks, African-American leathermen, or Muslim sexologists, this blog is outspoken and in-your-face. There are frequent posts - illustrated with appropriate and explicit photographs -, monthly archives, and a long list of supportive other blogs and resource links. From my sampling the provocative content ranged widely, from contests to commentary on current issues [i.e., COPA, pornography jurisprudence, etc.] to downright dish about Oscar winners. It's bright, it's fresh, and it's quite refreshing. - Peter

Date Reviewed: 2007-04-02
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Moderate
Category Listings: asian, Black, Blogs / Journals - Sex, gay men, GBLT Resources, mainstream erotica

Pride Roommates is a site with an interesting premise: Provide information about the type of place you'd like to rent and get matched up with a roommate from the LGBT community. Or if you have room in your house and a hankering for company, you can post an ad. The site lists potential roommates throughout the US, Canada and the UK. Some advertisers express a wish to find friendship (or more) along with someone to share the rent. I did a quick search for listings in the New York City area and found over a hundred listings, many with pictures. You can post an ad or browse ads for free, but in order to read "unedited" ads and messages (ie, ones that have NOT had contact information removed), you are asked to pay a small trial fee through CCBill. The trial period--three or five days--might possibly be enough for you to achieve your goals, but you'll automatically be billed at the monthly rate unless you cancel before the trial period's end. Pride Roommates would be worth at least a quick peek if you'd like to find a roommate with a specific sexual orientation.

Date Reviewed: 2007-03-15
Cost: $7.95/5-day trial then $19.95/month Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: GBLT Resources

Helen Boyd writes the blog (en)gender as an exploration of gender, trans and feminist issues. She is the parter of a transperson, her husband Betty, and is active as a speaker, author and counselor. Boyd has been posting regularly on (en)gender for well over three years now; her blog is an excellent resource for those who have an interest in gender identity. Her blog entries focus on upcoming events in the transgender community, news and legislation that touches on gender, and her own acceptance of her husband's female identity. She maintains a highly-active message board that can be accessed with a free membership. I once loved a transgendered man myself. I wish I'd known then of the existence of a site like (en)gender. - alwaysarousedgirl

Date Reviewed: 2007-03-08
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: Advice / Education, GBLT Resources

Red Handed bills themselves as alternaporn, which at least online I've come to associate with sites with tattooed and pierced models and not much else. This site, however, is what I would actually call alterna. Anyone who has ever spent some time in the sex positive community knows that if you go to a real life event, queer, BDSM, or whatever, you will see a wide variety of people. This site has porn featuring every gender identity, body type and sexual orientation I've heard of, including (and this surprised me) a straight het guy. I was happy to see that inclusivity, since again drawing from real life experience, the het male is often vilified (or at least made fun of), but this site is truly, happily sex positive. Anyhow. Red Handed is run by Boots Boccaleone, a lesbian who produces the videos and photos you'll see on the site. In the free area, you can find some sample videos including one of Boots talking about the premise of this project, while continuously chasing her cat off the bed. It's that kind of "amateur" where it's like you're sitting in someone's bedroom chatting. Each episode (6 are put up monthly) has both a gallery of still images, and either Quicktime or WMV format video. You can view the whole thing or view smaller clips. In the preview, you can see a screenshot of each episode and read the description of the scene. Each one starts with the model clothed and just chatting with Boots about their sexual identity, fantasies and experiences. Then we get to the masturbating part, and it's obviously very real. Each person shot is in control of how they do it, which when you see the variety here, is apparent. I found myself going through the site and watching the interview segments of each scene first. The high quality video in Quicktime streamed nicely, with no stopping to rebuffer or anything annoying. To give you some examples of content, you'll find Violet Palmer, a naturally huge-breasted and sweet natured sex worker; Slide Seymour, giving an overview of hir truly original porn shoots, then masturbating while wearing a restrictive body brace; girl-next-door type Jem confessing that she has a spreadsheet of the 160+ men she's had sex with; a crossdresser named Bridgette who remains shy until after the tied-up orgasm. There are currently 13 episodes online, each with runtimes between 15 and 45 minutes in this very new site. Now when it comes to joining the site, there are quite a number of options: you can join for photos only, pay more for photos and low resolution video, or pay the highest membership type for the high res 640x480 video. It's nice to have options, since connections and preferences vary. Oh, I also recommend checking out Boots' blog, she's an interesting writer. Definitely a one-of-a-kind website, I hope they find success in this currently underserved market. - Jane » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-02-08
Cost: From $7.99 up, see extended info Advertising Content: None
Category Listings: BDSM / Fetish Video, GBLT Resources, lesbian / bi, Streaming Video, TV & TS

This is a community based website that comes with chat rooms, forums, member photos, articles and a whole lot more. The site is geared towards those involved in BDSM lifestyle and the GLBT community. In order to access most of the features of the website you will need to register as a member. The bonus is that the membership is free and relatively painless. The website has just undergone a re-work from what I can tell, thus, there isn’t a ton of reading material at this point. The website design is pretty slick and easy to navigate through. I was impressed. It definitely looks like a site to keep an eye on. - Koi

Date Reviewed: 2007-01-30
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: BDSM Resources, GBLT Resources

This is Master Jack's home for extreme bondage. It is sort of personal site for Master Jack, whose business is Bondagezine (and whose pleasure is holding other men bound and completely helpless). The site has quite a few censored pics of extreme male bondage, each pic has a short description of the boy in question and his needs/desires. If you see something you like, you can write to Jack and refer to them by number. There is a bunch of writing by his scene partners on the site, all of which is very positive and enthusiastic. An interview with him that was printed in Unzipped Monthly has been scanned and shared on the site, as well as a whole bunch of on topic links. It appears Master Jack takes applications for new partners through the site, and he also shares a bit about himself and his views. Hot stuff, and it has a heart. - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2006-10-27
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: D / S, gay men, GBLT Resources, Male Bondage

This site says it is for, "Ladies, T-girls, Cross-dressers, Transvestites, Sissy Girls, Sissy Boys, Trans-sexuals,and Transgendereds." It is run by Ms. Sophie Sinclair, a bio female and sissy trainer who does phone sessions on Niteflirt. The tone of the site is glamorous, and the personal philosophy appears to be one of glorifying women. A quote from one of the articles that I really liked said, "To don female attire should be an homage to femininity, not as an insult." There are erotic stories, user galleries of photos and artwork, sissy transformation info, a pageant, and an extremely helpful links section. There is also the start of a very nice free user based community. A good place to look around if you enjoy the ultra feminine side of life. - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2006-04-21
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: Advice / Education, alternative / sci-fi erotica, GBLT Resources, Sexuality Info, TV & TS

A genderqueer adventure story - an idea whose time has come. Joey Comeau, the author, presents a sample online in the form of the original seven chapters, which you can read here in the site. The extended print version is available via PayPal [it appears that it is only available to Canada & the US right now, but that may change - contact the author to ask]. All pre-orders of 'Lockpick Pornography' come hand signed and numbered and include an illustrated zine. The synopsis sounds great. I love that Jane's Guide gives me the opportunity to encourage young artists like this - give it a look. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2005-08-29
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Nil
Category Listings: alternative / sci-fi erotica, Books / Zines, GBLT Resources

Although this is a really wonderful resource for Australians, I'd actually recommend it to anyone with an interest in sex positive politics and education. The organization describes itself this way, "Pleasure Activism Australia is a not-for-profit community group for sex-positive, pro-feminist people of any gender who believe in advocating consensual sexual pleasure for adults and who believe in the power of consensual sexuality to transform our society." They often discuss things of interest to the GBLT, polyamory, BDSM, and swinging communities. They have several discussion groups, but it is important to note that these are not for personals. These groups are specifically for discussion of human sexuality and the politics surrounding human sexuality. There is a great news section that will be fun and educational reading no matter where you are from, a resource section that offers some really great original essays such as "Path of the Sexual Healer" by NightOwl, and lots of links to educational and political info that will be all to familiar to some of us...but is a great guide for the new kid on the block! Excellent organization of information and extremely helpful.

Date Reviewed: 2005-06-30
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: GBLT Resources, Sexuality Info

What a good effort here to educate and enlighten people on an area that is little known by outsiders - the gay bathhouse. The writer has over ten years of experience in regular attendance at bathhouses, and I think his clear writing and experienced viewpoint can be of great help, in particular to men who are considering a first time experience. Every culture, every minority group, every group activity, all have their own traditions, their own communication practices, and their own behavior standards, and that is quite true of the bathhouse as well. A lot of marvelous fun can be had, but bathhouses can be dangerous as well, due to drugs, disease, and unsafe decisions and activity. This site may help you to negotiate your way safely through your adventure, and that's a public service. You have to wander through a bunch of advertising to get to the free content here, but that's a small price to pay. Ignore the ads that abound - or visit them to help the writer pay for his free site - but do click on through to his essays. Recommended.

Date Reviewed: 2005-06-28
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Lots, as noted
Category Listings: Blogs / Journals - Sex, GBLT Resources

Well, this is pretty absurd. First of all, on their front page they list "Jane's Guide Quality", but I can't find where we've reviewed them, and they certainly are not quality. You have a few pages of discussion here about gloryholes - the holes between two booths in adult arcades where one person can suck off a stranger - but that's just window dressing for the advertising. They want you to sign up for a 'free password'. Give them your email and they'll email you a free password, for their collection of wanking stories. Listen, folks - wanking stories are available all over the net for free and without the price of having to open up your email address to as much spam as people decide to send you. Give this cheezy gimmick a pass and your inbasket will thank you. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2005-04-23
Cost: free Advertising Content: as above
Category Listings: GBLT Resources, mainstream erotica