The peeps behind the
for-your-awards-consideration online gay and lesbian newsmagazine On
Top Magazine announced today the availability of a new
subscription service to augment their daily newsletter.
The new RSS service gives readers
complete coverage of LGBT news, features and opinion pieces found at
the website.
Managing Editor Carlos Santoscoy
explained the need: “When we started On Top three years ago,
we were posting two or three stories a day. At the time, our seven
story format newsletter worked well. But today we often exceed
twelve stories in a day. For the reader who is monitoring our
website via our newsletter they're driving with a big blind spot.”
“It's like our newsletter has spotty
current, but the new subscription feed is totally amped up,” said
Entertainment Editor Slim, who also happens to be an electrical
engineer.
“Subscriptions! Newsletters?” Dan
Maloney, a demented man who has nothing at all to do with the
publication that Dan Savage, the gay sex guru, once linked to from
The Stranger (www.thestranger.com),
said. “Real men surf over to the website itself. They
meticulously click on every photo and link on the page, making
certain not to miss a single precious story. That's how our
grandfathers did it. Like what would that take? Two minutes ...
thirty? I'm not sure, I've never been there myself.”
Openly lesbian news personality Rachel
Maddow, the political firecracker who – along with her red headed
comic sidekick Kent Jones – has been lighting up MSNBC like a roman
candle, recently said on The Rachel Maddow Show that the
situation made her “liiiiiivid.” Of course, that was not in
response to our digital list of stories with the capacity to alter
the course of humanity for the better, but most probably something to
do with the mundane, like her pet topic of the ascension of America's
first Black President, Barack Obama. But she did look us right in
the eye as she rolled her brown eyes ... hard.
There are, of course, very good reasons
to avoid the new RSS subscription service. Say if you still
experience a sense of schadenfreude over
the passage of Proposition 8, think Proposition 8 is a film
starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore, or being straight is just a
point of pride for you, then, probably, and we're just guessing here,
a little list of gay related stories traveling across the Internet
from gay utopia to your digital desktop would not be a welcoming
treat for you. We're just saying.
On the Net: Your golden opportunity to
subscribe to that list of gay stories is available here