Gay Forum - Gay Website

In the USSR, gays, despite the threat of criminal prosecution, lived their lives, going to apartments, meeting in parks, but they did it all illegally. With the abolition of Article 121 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, which punishes gays, gays emerged from the underground: gay clubs, gay friends, shops with literature and sex goods for homosexuals appeared. And with the development of the Internet there were also gay sites. At first it was personal pages of gays, then information portals and dating services, gay forums and porn portals.

With the development of WEB 2.0 technology, social networks began to develop rapidly, however, they did not receive any development among the gay audience. Homosexuals prefer to create groups in the largest social networks tolerant of social minorities, such as Facebook and Vkontakte. Information portals have become secondary, their positions have been taken up by porn portals and dating services. And this is understandable: on the one hand, broadband Internet made it possible to transmit video content over distances on the Web, on the other, the information hunger caused by prohibitions in the USSR gradually decreased, and then completely came to naught. Communicating with each other, homosexuals can freely exchange information both in virtual and in real life.

Perhaps, one of the few network resources that retained their positions with the development of Runet, were gay forums - dating sites and discussions of problems and life situations on a common site (which is not allowed for social networks for gay people, where communication is mostly conducted on the personal pages of participants) .

Over the past 10 years, gay forums have been created and disappeared, the following gay forums can be distinguished from existing websites:

Gayru.org - the oldest (since 2004) forum from the existing, now abandoned by the owner (not updated) to better times, but carrying information about the past discussions

Gaylife.su - gay forum, which arose in 2007 on the basis of the gay site "Libraries of real gay stories", a site with stories about the real life of gays, articles and books on gay topics. Subsequently, the gay forum and gay library merged, there are currently on the gaylife.su domain. Discussions of the events of gay life, gay problems, entertainment and communication, video films and articles, useful advice. It positions itself as a forum for communication between guys (girls are not welcome)

Forum.bluesystem.org forum at the largest gay portal Runet "BlueSystem", moderators and participants have changed many times, but the forum itself lives and remains in demand among girls and gays

Lagoona.ru - gay site, rather a club of mostly gay-oriented people, has not received wide development

Gayforum.su - forum in the "Gay Country" portal, discuss gay and female companies problems and gay life

The rest of the gay forums are either not active or no longer exist, but the very fact of existence of the above-mentioned gay forums speaks about the relevance of common discussion areas among homosexuals, and therefore gay forums will exist as long as there are distances separating people.