The team today:

Gavin Creel is the Tony-nominated star of Hair on Broadway, and is the co-founder of Broadway Impact, an organization of theater professionals fighting for Marriage Equality. (Gavincreel)

Christine Quinn is the Speaker of the New York City Council and an open lesbian. (ChrisCQuinn)

Jennifer Vanasco is the editor in chief of 365gay.com and an award-winning columnist. (JenniferVanasco)

Ali Davis writes RachelWatch for 365Gay. She certainly would not be so crass as to promote her book, True Porn Clerk Stories, in this short bio. Oh, wait. Oops. (Ali_Davis)

James Withers lives in New York City and is a contributing editor of the 365gay blog. (JamesWithers3)

John Polly is the editor of LogoOnline.com, NewNowNext.com and TripOutGayTravel.com. (JohnPolly_Logo)

Jon Mallow is a Senior Director at LOGOonline and occasionally covers politics and entertainment for 365gay.com and NewNowNext.com. (jonmallow)

Ray Hunt is a Logo staffer, a pop culture fanatic, a political junkie and an aficionado of the combat boot. (rayhuntLOGO)

Marc Leonard is Senior Vice President of Programming at Logo. (logochannel)

Kameron Zach is a logo staffer and is shooting video for 365gay.com. (kamerondotcom)

When: 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10 (the day before the march).

Where: Armand’s Pizzeria,  226 Massachusetts Ave in Capitol Hill

Cost: $12 plus tip – includes all-you-can-eat pizza, salad and drinks (buffet-style)

RSVP to Jennifer Vanasco by Monday, Sept. 21: jennifer.vanasco [at] mtvstaff [dot] com.

There will be a maximum of 50 attenders – we’ll take the first folks who respond.

DO NOT RSVP HERE!!! It’s too hard to keep track. We will only accept RSVPs from people who email.

Looking forward to meeting you all.

I would love to meet you – whether you comment regularly or not – and it would give you a chance to meet each other, give me in-person feedback, etc. 

What do you think? And, if you live in/near DC, where would you suggest we meet?

We’re now requiring that you register before you’re allowed to comment on the site. You can either give us your information directly – or you can click on Facebook connect, and register through your Facebook account (which means that Facebook will hold your info, not us, and it remains private). Facebook Connect will also give you the option of sharing with your friends your 365gay post.

You will only have to register once. (We have to do it to comment, too!)

Why are we doing this?

1. It will cut down on spam, and also, hopefully, on users who try to browbeat the community by posting the same opinion under many different usernames (sockpuppeting).

2. It is a neat addition for Facebook users.

3. It means that we will be able to bring back forums (not right away, but soon.)

We’re very, very excited about the forum possibility, which will bring more conversation into our very rich community.

Now, a question for you:

Pam’s House Blend and other sites require that people who register abide by community guidelines. Should we do something similar? What guidelines would you suggest?

The RSS feed should be working – but the URL is constructed differently than the old feed. Please reset your URL to:

365gay.com/rss

Still not working? **Please** give us specifics about how it’s broken and what browser you’re using. Many thanks. (Usually when it breaks now it’s due to an editorial error – we need to find the “escaped” ampersand and fix it).

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We hope you like the redesign of 365gay. We’ll continue to bring you daily breaking LGBT news, interesting features, and political analysis and opinion.

It’s a new site, so there are some bugs we’re aware of, and we’re working to fix them. In the meantime, PLEASE respond in the comments below as you find bugs, so that we can get to them quickly.

Update 2:

Issues we think are resolved:

• RSS feed
  Tiny text
  Not enough content in breaking news box

Issues you’ve brought up that we are working on:

• Printing a full page
• International access to video
• News broken out by day of the week
• Improved navigation
• Opinion section

Update 3

OK, we thought we fixed RSS but clearly not. So we’re still trying.

And continuing to update all the above. First, though, we’re trying to ensure the underlying code is stable – that’s really the priority. So bear with us, OK? We’re a tiny, tiny staff.

We appreciate very much – and read – all your comments, on this page and all the others.

Update 4

• By the end of next week, you’ll have a single page with the week’s headlines
• Also in next week’s publish, the ability to print a story cleanly.

We hear you on readability (a slightly different problem than the tiny text) and front page navigation. Working on both.

Update 5

• We’re working on a WAP site, which will make things easy for our mobile users, similar to Logo mobile sites at AfterElton and AfterEllen.

Please also comment on stories – a new feature we’re particularly happy about – and feel free to send us news tips at editor@365gay.com.

Finally, our gay political blog VisibleVote08 is now the 365gay Blog - if you haven’t read it before, we hope you’ll check it out.

Warmly,

365gay editorial staff