also….while i understand its everyone’s right to do whatever they choose…. i just keep thinkin;

hey guys…. thanks for the on going stereotypes. gay community doesn’t have enough already.

poly and lgbtq politics can totally mesh together! not everyone wants “mainstream” marriage equality!

So when do we get Concerned Homos’for America or The Pink Majority ready to ostracize and shun any who do not fit in their narrow Picket Fence world?

Gay Moralists DISGUST ME!

I have read all the comments and believe that first the boys deserve some credit for allowing their relationship to be exploited.

Second our community has so much diversity why not talk and discuss it? Does not mean what others chose to do has to become your way of life. I mean I am a one on one kind of guy but that does not mean I was always that way. It is not a law to be involved in a four some. Besides if you think back a few decades multi racial couples would have been unheard of….

I have to conclude that many of those who are protesting are hiding skeletons in their own closets while others are simply jealous of these guys.

Will this relationship last? Statistically, probably not. Of course, over 90 percent of mine haven’t lasted. If they are enjoying it today, then great. They aren’t hurting anyone. If it ends tomorrow, so be it. Carpe diem!

Will Q-Notes survive this? Yes. It will probably be one of their most popular issues ever. Will Q-Notes eventually fail? Given the track record of both mainstream and gay print publications, they’ll either adapt or fail. Print is dying a slow death. Hopefully, Jim can adapt and keep it going.

xoxoxoxo

**just a quick side note- i actually have seen these guys out in various clubs. While I will not pass judgment on anyone, this “relationship” seems more like a ploy to get attention. It seems as if they’ve just settled for something of a group relationship to satisfy a need for multiple sexual partners as well as someone to share different interests with. It saddens me to see such young guys give up on finding one person to share everything with and rather settle for three. Though i may not agree with this or understand it for that matter– i wish all of them luck and sincerely hope all of them are happy in their choices.

I believe that if we in the GLBT want to obtain the same rights, it won’t be accomplished by putting articles like this on the front page and highlighting them as something positive. I applaud Q-Notes for taking something few people recognize and understand and bringing it into perspective so people can formulate their own opinions. But when it appears on the front page with a bias towards being positive, it can cause setbacks for what GLBT activists are trying to do.

The GLBT community needs to move to educate straight people on what homosexuality is. I believe that most straight people don’t recognize it for what it really is. Instead, they believe in the stereotypes, and articles like this reinforce those stereotypes.

Once again, I applaud Q-Notes for their focus on diversity, but there’s a time, place, and a way of doing things.

As to the above assertion that Q-Notes is populated/dominated by staffers under the age of 27, I can tell you from my own experience that it’s not true. The majority of the staff is over 40.

i said mostly are under 30 not all so please put on your reading glassess.. however if you need to blast me for this email
sickntired08 gmail com

Our goal should be to increase a positive awareness of GLBT people rather than play to the things the straight community has against us. This only gives them more proof of GLBT promiscuity and choice. And most GLBT people are NOT promiscuous, but the careless choices of a few can easily ruin it for the masses.

I think Q-Notes does a wonderful job in its fair presentation of news, entertainment, and so on, but this is one step too far. You can be entertaining without compromising values.

Please Q-Notes, tone it down in the future.

Thank you for your comments. We love hearing your feedback. When feedback is public, however, we want it to be accurate.

Southern Voice has published Sex Issues similar to ours before. Both MetroWeekly and David Atlanta have sex content, just as original as ours. The featured story in this issue is original to Q-Notes; no other publication has covered this story thus far. On Monday, June 1, we will publish more Sex Issue Online Only features, which are also original to Q-Notes.

Q-Notes is a publication that provides news, entertainment, events, resources and more. We also want to be a publication that offers bold and edgy content, that makes our readers think but also entertains them.

Thanks,

Matt Comer
editor

Let look at real gay publications shall we?

WASHINGTON DC
Washington Blade – LGBT News
Metro Weekly – Originally Content with a sexier side

ATLANTA
Southern Voice (SOVO) – LGBT News
David Atlanta – Original Content with Sex

SO NOW TELL ME – WHICH DIRECTION IS Q-NOTES GOING – YOU CAN’T BE BOTH. It’s sad that Q-Notes has lost its way so quickly in a year – its time to wrap it up if news isn’t working for you… because The Sex Issue… well… its gonna help wrap you up regardless.