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Kai · 3 years ago

Good luck for bringing a great new social networking site to the gay guys in the States! As you recognized, the UK already has a few aimed at different markets, including Jake for business professionals and OUTeverywhere for pure social networking - its members organise around 5,000 events every year and its forums have more than 5 *million* posts. It's been around since 1995, so good to see the States catching up with the UK for once ;)

Matthew · 3 years ago

Thanks for this article Matt. I've been waiting for sites such as VentureBeat to start discussing the innovation that's happening in the gay community. My gripe is that a lot of 'gay' websites are only focused on either gay guys, or men wanting sex with men - there is far more to the 'gay' community than this.

So, here's a new one to add to your list: http://www.queensspeech.com
…launch is scheduled for the start of January and will be a true social network aimed at the entire ‘lgbt’ community - not just men looking for a ‘quickie’.

Unlike other the other gay social networks, QueensSpeech will aggregate content published by its members to build topic-based, magazine style frontpages that summarise what’s being discussed throughout the community, by the community. We're calling this concept 'Conversational Publishing' - and we'll be giving it a 'glossy finish' to meet the needs of the non-contributing members, readers, or lurkers as they're sometimes called.

Anyway, thanks so much for starting this conversation - i can't wait to see how it progresses...

BT · 3 years ago

Great blog post, Matt. I, for one, have signed up for BigJock, and am very excited about its debut and future success. It seems to offer really cool features, a combination of myspace and dlist. Big hairy muscle hugs of thanks.