Dating on AOL: You've Got Males

THE GAY CHAT ROOM

It used to be that gay men who wanted to meet other gay men had limited options. Among them: go to a bar, or learn to love solitude. Then came the Internet. Now, millions of gay men wait in line--not to pay a cover charge or order a drink, but to get into the men-for-men chat rooms on America Online.

According to estimates by Internet demographers, 20% of AOL's 21 million subscribers are gay, and at nearly all hours, the men-for-men chat rooms are filled with guys looking for Mr. Right. (On a random night in AOL's Town Square area, 140...

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