Category Archives: Announcements

Queens Speech reaches 100,000 story milestone!

Since we re-launched back in November 2007 we’ve been busy scouring the web for some the most talked about, and most popular stories affecting gay communities around the world. We’ve covered everything from the drawn out US Primaries to Heinz pulling one of their tv ads (because a few people complained of a two gay [...]

New tagging engine now available on QueensSpeech.com

We’ve quietly rolled out a simple but powerful tagging feature on all aggregated stories. Every time a new story is found and published, we evaluate the content and then look to identify appropriate tags (Wikipedia definition) to attach to the story. This helps create contextual relationships between similar stories by using one or more keywords [...]

The Queen is on Twitter

You can now follow our daily thoughts and stumblings on Twitter. For those of you not familiar with Twitter, Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that in the current words of Wikipedia is
“a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed [...]

Dedicated RSS Feeds Page Launched on QueensSpeech.com

We have just launched a dedicated RSS feeds page that allows you to subscribe to content from each of our six main categories which includes Gay News, Opinion, Gossip, Blogs, Sexy and Adult. So now it’s even easier to subscribe and view the content which interests you the most.
Take a look: http://queensspeech.com/feeds

New feature launch: QueensSpeech Profiles & Commenting

Last weekend we went live with with two important features - Commenting and Profiles.
You are now able to comment on all of the stories appearing across the QueensSpeech publishing network. You can do this by selecting the ‘Post your comment’ link (which appears underneath each story extract) and then registering for a new QS account [...]

QueensSpeech featured in today’s LLGFF newsletter

QueensSpeech was featured prominently in the LLGFF (London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) email news bulletin today (under ‘Festival Recommends’). Thanks BFI !
You can sign up to the newsletter here or view the online version of today’s email here.

London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival partners with QueensSpeech.com

We are proud to announce that this year we will be partnering with the 22nd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and have been awarded official ‘online partner’ status by the British Film Institute - organisers of the event.
So what does this mean for QS? Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing over 150 [...]

A new year, a new start. QueensSpeech is back!

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 [...]