All About GLINN

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The Parts of GLINN

GLINN is an acronym for Gay/Lesbian International News Network. Today, GLINN.COM is the biggest gay news site on the Internet. GLINN Media Corporation has 15 web domains, comprising the largest gay presence on the internet (in number of sites and web pages). GLINN offers a vast amount of free content and community services on its websites. Although some sites offer products to consumers and business services, the vast majority offer free resources for the gay/lesbian and transgendered community.

For two years we operated GLINN Network One, America's Gay Owned and Operated Internet Service Provider. The dialup part of our business was sold in October 1999 due to the difficulty of raising money for a gay ISP, and also because it was not profitable without capital to promote it properly and operate it on a large enough scale.

It All Started in 1986

It all started with our typesetting business producing The Wisconsin Light and InStep Magazine, together with other community newsletters and materials, followed shortly by our computer bulletin board system back in 1986-1987. Eventually over the years, our BBS was called the GLINN BBS, the formal name being, "The GLINN Multi-Board Super System." Later it was called the, "GLINN Internet Services BBS", and the system was available by direct dial, by Telnet at bbs.glinn.net and on the web. With our move to Key West, FL it was not possible to continue to operate this system and the domain name was abandoned as we changed business direction. Also see The GLINN BBS page on this site for more detailed information. Access was FREE, and included access to many adult image files. The GLINN BBS was the first computer bulletin board system listed in the Milwaukee Ameritech Yellow pages. We had the Computer BBS category created.

Currently the GLINN.NET system is not available. GLINN moved from Milwaukee, WI to Key West, FL in September 2001. In Milwaukee we had our own data center. It was not possible to open our own data center in Key West right after the move. It is not possible to have the glinn.net system hosted elsewhere.

We did typesetting the old-fashioned way, with massive Compugraphic phototypesetting machines. We also had, until a year before our move to Florida, a large Agfa process camera, plus a complete darkroom, and we processed film and made prints for gay publications. For seven years we did production work on Wisconsin Light, Wisconsin's gay newspaper, and five years on Wisconsin In Step and the publications and literature of gay/lesbian non-profit organizations. Ultimately the cost of laser printers dropped to the point where phototypesetting didn't pay anymore and we exited the typesetting business. This was a sad day because typesetting systems we had paid thousands of dollars for and that were still in perfect working condition had to be hauled away as scrap metal.

GLINN.NET

The GLINN BBS provided full Internet access and operates on Wildcat 5.0. The system had 32 CD-ROM disks available online, in addition to over 10 gigabytes of adult files and shareware.

See The GLINN BBS page on this site for a detailed history, photographs and more information.

GLINN Community Voice Mail

In 1989-1990, we founded the GLINN Community Voice Mail System (GCVM) which contained community information, gay news, a calendar of events and free male to male person ads. We also used the voice mail system for BBS User Help. With our move to Key West, the Milwaukee voice mail system has been shut down. We plan to launch a similar system in Key West, FL in the near future.

Making it all formal

After setting up the news service and BBS we decided that it should all be within a formal corporation, thus GLINN Publishing Corporation was born in 1991. With our move to Florida in 2001 GLINN Publishing Corp. was dissolved and GLINN Media Corporation became a subsidary of Blue Planet Offices, Inc., a Florida corporation.

My name is Dan Schramm. I am the founder and president of GLINN, and the SysOp of the BBS and this WWW site. If you would like to meet me, click on Who Are We here or above.

In September 2001 we shut down our Milwaukee office and moved to Key West, FL for both personal and business reasons. Milwaukee was just not a great location for a gay oriented business.

Lots of Interesting Stuff Too!

GLINN continues to offer many sites with free content for the GLBT community. We offer a wide range of informative and interesting content including photographs, sound files and video clips exclusively on GLINN sites. Our most visited site is www.gaytunes.com. Our gaydata.com site offers the most economical and also most popular gay news distribution service. Be sure to visit our other web sites: click on Domains above.