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The early online forum that built a trans community

The early internet offered for the first time a chance for queer communities to connect with one another virtually. Samantha Riedel, contributing writer for Them magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the discovery of a CD-Rom with four years of content from the late 1990s, which shows a burgeoning trans community being born online. Her article is “This Archive Offers an Incredible Window Into the Early Trans Internet.”