EDGE Press Room

EDGE Publications Launches Boston Gay News and Entertainment Portal

For Immediate Release May 10, 2004

Boston, MA -- EDGE Publications today announced the official launch of EDGEboston.com, the company's flagship website. EDGEboston.com is devoted to providing news and entertainment information for the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender community of New England, Massachusetts, and Boston, along with those traveling to the region.

"EDGE is thrilled to bring our unique publishing model to the web in this new form," said David Foucher, EDGE's publisher. "We have a wide variety of information online for the Boston community - and new sections launching weekly."

EDGEboston.com today launched with an up-to-the-minute news section, an entertainment area, a comprehensive travel database, a health and fitness guide, weekly giveaways, and an integrated calendar that details daily happenings across the region.

In its first six hours of launch, EDGE Boston logged more than 5,000 unique users from the greater Boston area.

"We're thrilled," stated Arts Editor Robert Nesti. "We anticipated a great response from the gay Boston community, but we were surprised by how many of them wrote to us on this first day to tell us how great they thought the site was."

ABOUT EDGE MEDIA NETWORK:

EDGE is an online community destination dedicated to the delivery of local, national and world content targeted to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in a fair, entertaining and interactive format. Learn more about EDGE at http://www.edgeonthenet.com.

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For more information:

John Welton
Director Public Relations
415-215-8348
[email protected]