Launching in , long before the likes of Grindr and Scruff, Gay. I caught up with Chicago based drag queen, co-host and creator of hit youtube show IMHO Darby Lynn Cartwright to discuss what the site meant to her as a queer kid growing up in Tennessee in the late 90s.
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This week we are doing something a little bit different and visiting a lost website. Launching in long before the likes of Grindr and scruff k. I caught up with Chicago based drag queen, co host and creator of hit YouTube show, IMHO Darby Lynn Cartwright to discuss what this site meant to her as a queer kid growing up in Tennessee in the late 90s. And I do need to give a trigger warning before you listen to the episode that we do discuss some heavy topics, including statutory rape.
My twin brother is actually a pastor. So we took very different roads. And she was superduper. Yeah, aim was like, I CQ. Yeah, okay, cool. That was a whole other days. But yeah, she handed me this slip of paper. And I was like, okay, so I did open it at home. Darby Lynn Cartwright Yeah, there was litter, use condoms. And, yeah, so gay. So I said, Sure. Why not? And because, you know, there was there was budding sexuality happening.
So I knew, you know, I knew I was going to choose the wrong side. So I yeah, I signed on. And then I spent the next 10 years in a love hate relationship with gay. K Anderson So is this the time of dial up internet? Oh, yeah. And did you have one one computer in the house?
