Gay Chat Rooms SPOKANE, WASH.
Mayor regrets actions Mayor James West said Wednesday he regrets his actions that led voters to recall him in a special election sparked by allegations he used a city computer to woo gay men over the Internet.West, 54, must leave his position when the election results are certified Dec. 16.West, a former Boy Scout executive and sheriff's deputy, was elected mayor in 2003 after serving more than two decades as a conservative Republican in the state Legislature, where he...
MANY TEENS CONSIDER ONLINE THEIR LIFELINE TO GAY COMMUNITY, ACCEPTANCE
If it's late at night and his parents are asleep, odds are that you can find Tommy a 16-year-old Contra Costa County boy alone in his room, connected to the world through the magic of the Internet. Tommy first discovered the gay chat rooms of America Online six months ago, and he credits them with saving his sanity."I was really going crazy before knowing that I wasn't alone," Tommy says. "And I mean crazy. I had all these...
Gay Chat Rooms North Port Police Beat
Teen barred from library
Venice police issued a trespass warning to a North Port teen-ager for using a county library computer to harass people in an Internet chat room.According to a police incident report: The incident happened at the Venice Public Library, 300 S. Nokomis Ave., at 5 p.m. Sept. 22 After witnesses notified the library staff the juvenile was abusing his computer use privileges, a Venice police officer found the 17-year-old male at the library's computer station and said he could...