After what seems an eternity, we’re back and more useful than ever (we hope). Last year we released our ‘Play’ version of QueensSpeech - an experiment in finding new ways to do things by breaking industry norms and best practices. Crazy as it sounds, it was really useful to launch with something that went against the grain.

We were happy enough to be spotted by Mashable, Techcrunch and KillerStartups, but even happier to receive so much feedback about what worked, and more importantly what didn’t. We collected this feedback and have spent the last few months working on a brand new service - a service that we hope will enjoy and find useful.

A lot of hot air? Well not really, take a look at the new homepage, http://queensspeech.com/, and you’ll see a completely different design, but more importantly a brand new service to go with it. We still have our social publishing system (soon to be relaunched) where you can publish your own articles or comment on others, but we’ve also introduced something called ‘conversational publishing‘.

In a nutshell this scans hundreds of gay-centric blogs, websites, online magazines and news agencies each day to bring you online discussions and events affecting gay communities around the world - in one concise, but informative view. We’ve segmented the conversations into six main categories: Lesbian & Gay News, Opinion, Gossip (and entertainment), Blogs, Sexy, and Adult. Therefore you can select a category and view only content that’s relevant to your choice.

We’ve still got loads of work to do, but for now, please do visit QueensSpeech.com and let the team know your thoughts. You can leave comments on this post, or alternatively you can email us at m[at]queensspeech.com