When it comes to gay and lesbian news, the Internet is a mess, says Sarah Warn, President and Founder of Erosion Media. There is a lot of GLBT news out there, but no easy way to find it.

All that changes with today’s launch of Erosion Media’s AllGayNews.com (http://www.allgaynews.com), a website that brings news providers and GLBT readers together. “When it comes to GLBT news,” says Warn, “there’s never been anything like this on the Web.”

Erosion Media is the owner of leading entertainment sites for gay men and women AfterEllen.com (http://www.afterellen.com) and AfterElton.com (http://www.afterelton.com).

There are several publications currently providing gay and lesbian news online, but they are limited in the number of stories they can cover, and they are focused on what the editors consider most important. Meanwhile, gay and lesbian news is increasingly produced by a diversity of sources besides American gay and lesbian news publications, like blogs, small-town or niche newspapers and websites, and publications from other countries. These stories are much harder for gays and lesbians to find, because they aren’t published by the biggest sites on the Web and consequently are easily buried in the avalanche of news published on the Internet every day.

AllGayNews.com solves this problem by harnessing the collective knowledge of GLBT readers from across the globe. By submitting, categorizing, rating, and commenting on links to GLBT news items from across the Internet, AllGayNews.com readers decide collectively what news is important--giving readers access to more information in an easy-to-digest format, and creating a level playing field for publications.

AllGayNews.com also allows readers to filter the news in a variety of ways, including by publication, gender, type and topic. For example, says Warn “you can quickly see the last 50 news items submitted about gay men in sports, lesbians in politics, or GLBT teens. Or you can see a list of the recent articles on transgender issues published by a particular news source.” When readers click on a news item that looks interesting, they are sent directly to the relevant article on the news provider’s website, which increases traffic to that publication.