This post was written by TNG founder Zack.

As I mentioned awhile back, I got laid off from my job in October and spent about three months looking for something else to do full time. After forays into temping, placement agencies and crying bitterly about my inability to find any jobs that looked interesting a solution was found: I could just starting doing The New Gay full time. So that’s what I’m doing. This means a couple things for you, our readers.

Foremost, TNG has officially moved far beyond the realm of hobby or casual undertaking (not that it ever even was those things) into being a fully incorporated company that works with the DC queer community. That means we as a website and a service have even more time to accommodate queer DC. So if you have a partnership idea, a question or a request from us there is probably a good chance that I can be of help to you. That’s what my job is.

Secondly, full-time TNGing is awesome but I still have to pay my rent and eat and send hush money checks to the man who took videos of me peeing in the holy water at the National Cathedral. So you might have notice banners ads toward the top of our site or our new advertorial feature, the DC9 Concert of the Week. Though we are now for-profit, I just wanted to assure everyone that we will not clutter up the site with too many ads, or for that matter feature ads for swimsuits, hook-up sites or anything featuring half-naked men cavorting. Any products or stores that we support here will be ones whose missions we agree with and who will able to be of some service to our readers. We also will clearly mark any of our advertorials so that they will be distinguishable from regular content.

If you have any other suggestions for ways that we can feature ads without changing the character of the site too much, please leave them as comments below.