Who's That Knocking On Our Door?
Quick Looksee at Our Guests' Profiles

By Henry Miller
November, 1997

Every day Affirmation gets an average of 43 people visiting our national web site, many of whom leave comments in our guest book. A quick scan reveals that 85% are supportive and 15% are less than sympathetic. Comments range from love and admiration, to extreme hate and liberal use of four-letter words (which are automatically deleted). Recently we intercepted a cluster of entries made by a group of teenage girls using false names who were only interested in "bashing" gay Mormons. While we permit both positive and negative guest book entries, those made under false pretenses are deleted. Most guests are, fortunately, pure of heart who leave earnest inquiries and share honest reasons to support their views.

Where Is Everyone Coming From?

We were curious to see what parts of the world people were visiting us from, so we we did a quick survey of our log over the last two months. We were amazed at how diverse our audience was (see list below) and at how many guests come to us from military, governmental, major corporate, and church-sponsored institutions.

How Do They Find Us?

We also did a scan to see how people were finding us. Most, predictably, locate us by using a search engine. But we were pleased to see how many also find us through sites that have links to ours. One in particular surprised us. ABC News did an article titled "Bishops: Accept Gay Children" in October where they referenced our site.

Here is a partial list of some of the locations people logged in from during the last three months:

  • Algés, Portugal
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Austin, TX
  • Ball State University, IN
  • Bellingham, WA
  • Bergamo, Italy
  • Berlin, Germany
  • Bermuda
  • Bonneville Communications
  • Box Hill Institute of TAFE in Melbourne, Australia
  • Brigham Young University, UT
  • Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  • Calgary, Canada
  • California State University at Chico, Chico, CA
  • Canon City, CO
  • Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior, Mexicali, BCN, Mexico
  • Chicago, IL
  • Chile
  • Cleveland, OH
  • Command Headquarters, US Air Force
  • Costa Rica
  • Dallas County Community College, Dallas, TX
  • Davis, CA
  • Detroit, MI
  • Fairbanks, AK
  • Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok, Russia
  • Florence, Italy
  • Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  • George Washington University, Washington DC
  • Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
  • Greece
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • Headquarters, Air Force Reserve Command
  • Helsingin Ranskalais-Suomalaisen Koulun, Helsinki, Finland
  • Houston, TX
  • Huntsville, AL
  • Iceland
  • Indiana University, IN
  • Iowa
  • Israel
  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  • Kadena, Japan
  • Kaiserslautern University, Pfalz, Germany
  • Keilalahdentie, Finland
  • Kharkov, Ukraine
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium
  • Los Rios Community College, Sacramento, CA
  • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  • Lucca, Italy
  • Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  • Maine
  • Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • Medical Research Library of Brooklyn, NY
  • Memphis, TN
  • Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Moscow, ID
  • Mount Vernon, WA
  • National Institute of Standards and Technologies, Boulder, CO
  • Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
  • New York City, NY
  • New Zealand
  • Newark, NJ
  • Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
  • Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Norway
  • Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  • Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
  • Orange, TX
  • Osaka, Japan
  • Ostersund, Sweden
  • Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
  • Phoenix, AZ
  • Plattsburgh State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY
  • Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Providence College, Providence, RI
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  • Rochester, NY
  • Russia
  • Salt Lake City, UT
  • Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT
  • San Bernardino, CA
  • San Diego, CA
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Seattle, WA
  • Shetland Isles, United Kingdom
  • Singapore, Malaysia
  • Snow College, Ephraim, UT
  • South Africa
  • Southeast Technical Institute, Sioux Falls, SD
  • Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
  • St. George, UT
  • St. Louis, MO
  • Stanford University, CA
  • Texas A&M University
  • Tucson, AZ
  • U.S. Navy
  • UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  • United Kingdom
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France
  • University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • University of Denver, Denver, CO
  • University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
  • University of Kansas
  • University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  • University of Minnesota, MN
  • University of Nevada, Reno, NV
  • University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  • University of Tampere, Finland
  • University of Tasmania, Australia
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  • University of Texas
  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  • US Patent and Trademark Office, Washington DC
  • Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT
  • Venezuela
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington, DC
  • Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
  • Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
  • Wisconsin


Monthly Visitors, April 1996 to November 1997
Affirmation thanks everyone who has and continues to help make this site an enjoyable and educational place for people searching for information on homosexuality.

Note for the paranoid: Our log does not, nor can it, provide the names of people or the computer they logged in from. For those who care, your anonymity is safe! Visit us as often as you wish with no fear of being discovered!



















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