Norm Kent: Publisher

The National Gay News Online is a no holds barred review of our lives and our community for sure. But it is also a recognition that we have a lot more in common with the mainstream community then they sometimes give us credit for. You see, the gay community is about business and enterprise, commerce and education. We are young students, elderly retirees, and we come together at Gamma Mu Parties and White Parties. But we are no different than everyone around us. We experience breakups and financial crises, endure sickness and loss, see our dreams deferred. Those of us who grew up in the age of AIDS have also seen too many young men die too young.

The National Gay News Online will celebrate our lives with daily news briefs and storied features, breaking news and lifestyle profiles. You enter today on the dawn of our own national voice, a forum you can interact with, play on, post on, and read up about.

This is a paper where you will find a page. It may be one article in one column or one match from one website. But here you will always find a home, a sanctuary, and a place to call your own, that no one will ever take away. Most of all, you will find a voice that speaks to your principles, advocates your interests, and defends your rights.

We come together, all of us do, in various ways- from Bowling Leagues to Gay Choruses to Gay Travel Associations. Our community has become vast and varied, hiking clubs and softball leagues, recreation and study groups, our own AA groups and Ski Weeks.........the list goes on, doesn't it? Those lists, those national events, from political forums for equality to Bear cruises in the Bahamas will find a place and forum on these online pages.

You can of course go beyond the image and the computer and subscribe to the written page. There are forms and forums for you to do that. But most of all our paper is not going to be just the match game, just the promo for a White Party, or just a press release for an AIDS walk. Our online paper is going to be news, from young hustlers offing their older tricks to closeted congressman covering up their secret identities. But we are authors and activists too, and we will be celebrating book signings and artist exhibitions, seniors who have led cherished lives, and young men and women who have inspired us with their vision.

Our goal is to have you make our paper your home page. When we have done that, we will have just begun our task. But we will better showing you what we intend to do by doing it. Here's the link. Welcome to the National Gay News.