Within the venue, internet-connected devices, such as tablets and smartphones, can make for a more interactive relationship with visitors.
Thus our definition would not include men who e.g. would like to have sex with other men, but did not have the opportunity to do so, and it may not cover MSM subpopulations marginalized and isolated due to a lack of gay venues, internet access and other means of communication.
In MSM and IDU, where there is the longest experience of BS, the length and robustness of trends and the relatively low cost of non-probablistic methods of sampling (venue-, internet- or service-based) can explain the paucity of experience with RDS and the probable reluctance to adopt this recently promoted method for BS in these populations [ 43].
The conference is just one in a number of venues where Internet policymaking will be contested.
Geldof, Bono and Curtis had amassed no venues, no internet deal and not a single city had agreed to stage their extravaganza.
Pakistani universities are among the few venues where internet saturation is high: by 2005, over 80% of all university libraries had internet access.
Some proposals imply taking away authority from the variety of venues where Internet governance currently takes place — a constellation of technical standards bodies and other organizations that include more than just governments in their decision-making processes.
In 2012, Iranian authorities were reportedly testing a service that would be used in public places, specifically venues like Internet cafes (a popular way of going online in Iran, where about 30 million of its 75 million citizens use the Internet), that would require users to log in to use services.
82.5% reported some contact with HIV prevention activities in the past 12 months, 73.1% obtained free condoms from a gay venue or the Internet, 51.1% reported accessing sexual health information (from either leaflets in gay venues or via the Internet), 13.5% reported talking to an outreach worker and 8.0% reported participating in counselling on sexual health or HIV prevention.
No other venue, including the internet, can guarantee an audience of many millions on a single evening.
Martin-Smith acquired it and cheekily reopened it as Queer, a dance and internet venue next to Velvet, an elegant eaterie, and Scott's community cafe bar, Taurus, which offers free space to gay organisations and artists.
