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About GBMNews

GBMNews - “The site for News, Reviews and Commentary for Gay People of Color”:

Thank you for taking a moment to learn about GBMNews. We are a novel, innovative news site for the LGBT community, with a focus on gay men of color. Our site is an outgrowth of our successful Yahoo group, where we post news articles of general interest to our community.

Our new website, while it continues the successful approach of the news group, is of a totally different nature. GBMNews is designed around the successful Web 2.0 philosophy of a user- generated content site. In other words, community writers are recruited and encouraged to contribute articles on events and issues happening in the community.

While GBMNews will continue to feature articles from the general news media, our future lies in articles written by our own team of citizen-journalists. In time, our site will be largely driven by contributor content. In essence, we’re becoming a news site “of the people, by the people, and for the people”.

So far, so good… new writers are joining us at a fast pace, and we expect to recruit many more writers (both professional and amateur) over the next few years. These writers will report the news and tell the stories that the mainstream press often overlooks.

We aspire to professional quality in our stories. Many of our writers are book authors, play-wrights, poets and/or freelance journalists. We are committed to posting quality and informative articles. In addition to news, interviews and commentary, our site features creative writing, art and intellectual discussions. We’ve started a series of book and art reviews, and are publishing book excerpts and serializations. We have columns on advice and self-help, and we’ve opened an Art Gallery where artists can display images of their work and receive comments from our readers.

Along with our focus on community writers, GBMNews has a global perspective. We currently feature writers from around the world, Cameroon to California. Our objective is to cover the world of gay people of color, throughout the African Diaspora, Hispanic and Asian communities.

GBMNews is a not-for-profit, completely free community site. We carry no advertisements and charge no fees. We encourage you to visit the site, and hope that you’ll join with us and spread the word about us!

The site is updated bi-weekly. Meet Our Writers

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Legal Terms and Conditions

GBMNews Comment Policy:

GBMNews encourages you to add comment to our discussions and articles. You may not post any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or other material that would violate the law. Please note that GBMNews makes reasonable efforts to review all comments prior to posting and GBMNews may edit comments for clarity or to keep out questionable or off-topic material. All comments should be relevant to the post and remain respectful of other authors and commenters. By submitting your comment, you hereby give GBMNews the right, but not the obligation, to post, air, edit, exhibit, telecast, cablecast, webcast, re-use, publish, reproduce, use, license, print, distribute or otherwise use your comment(s) and accompanying personal identifying information via all forms of media now known or hereafter devised, worldwide, in perpetuity.

GBMNews Privacy Statement:

To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. GBMNews Privacy Statement