In my experience the gopher community is very split on this concept with many people doing just that, but many others (myself included) wishing that gopher/web proxies and cross posting did not exist at all.
You can peruse gopherspace via the overbite gateway, and the big gopher search engine, Veronica, is still up and running.
Take a look! :)
[1] sdf.org
In fact, several regular gopherites have commented on this thread.
Funny that this came up on the Hacker News on the weekend that the server is going down. Probably a good thing, since it only has 128MB of RAM.