Hi everyone, I suppose I should introduce myself before asking for help, as I just joined the list =) My name is Sarah Bickerton and I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, working a bit under Steve Jones in the Department of Communication here. I did my undergraduate study at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, where I did physics and sociology with dabbles in computer science before doing my MA thesis in sociology on articulations of embodiment in an online community. My research interests are qualitative, namely gender, sexuality, politics, poststructural identity work, with an overarching focus on online social interaction (hence Steve getting me to subscribe to the list). Okays, now that I have that done, on to the help asking *smile* I am trying to put together a literature review on research of gay and lesbian experiences online for my PhD dissertation that I am starting soon on if coming out as gay or lesbian online alter's one's conceptions of those identities. However, I am coming up shallow on material for the lit review, which bodes well for my research later, but hardly well for the review. This is most probably because of not looking in the right places. As such I was just wondering if any of you could point me in the direction of places to go look for research done on gay and lesbian experiences online? Any databases, etc that you can think of, or articles that you know of. I would really appreciate any assistance at all that anyone could provide. Here's to joining the list. thanks, Sarah -- ******************************************************* Sarah Hendrica Bickerton "Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and go well with ketchup." - Anon email: sarah_hendrica@yahoo.com icq#:38209213 MSN: sarah_hendrica AIM: kiwidragongurl Yahoo!: sarah_hendrica ******************************************************* _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com