Formerly known as gay11.com, Glimpse.com launches a ?fresh take? on online dating for relationship-minded gays, lesbians and bisexuals.

With two years service to the community and over half a million personal profiles online today, Glimpse.com emphasizes a quality online experience that offers more ways to connect for gay dating and friendship, and more control over personal settings. Equally important is what Glimpse.com does not offer: annoying banners and pop-up ads, pornography, and spam emails.

?At Glimpse, our mission is to create a genuine online community for people seeking new friendships and personal relationships,? stated Todd Nelson, Director of Marketing for Glimpse.com. ?Our new name is more intuitive and better reflects our members who are lesbians and bisexuals, as well as gay men. It also makes it easier for members to log in wherever they happen to be, and new features make meeting other members even easier. The response so far has been great.?

Last month, Forrester?s Consumer Technographics 2003 study confirmed that gay men and women have far greater likelihood to use online personal ads to meet like-minded partners and friends in a risk-controlled way. Witeck-Combs Communications and Harris Interactive also reported in 2002 that gays and lesbians tend to use the Internet as many as 5-8 hours more per week as the typical non-gay user.

Glimpse?s most recent feature, ?Your Matches,? delivers the latest profiles and the most likely matches directly to a member?s inbox based on pre-determined preferences. ?Your Matches makes it even easier to make friends or find that special someone,? continued Nelson.

The success stories are already coming in: ?Do you believe in soul mates? I always thought that was in fairy tales, never in real life. I know I have met mine...Our romance started in the chat room. A friend of mine said I should check it out this new site,? said Judy, one half of a recent Glimpse.com success story. ?Three days later I met a woman - we started talking about the weather. Now, I will forever remember our wedding day as the happiest day of my life.?

?Glimpse.com has everything members loved about gay11.com and more. The over 500,000 members of Glimpse.com still enjoy all the same compelling features as before, including easy searches to find exactly who you're looking for, onsite email, instant messaging, real-time chat, ?Who?s Online,? ?Hot Lists,? and 24/7 LIVE, toll-free customer service,? according to Nelson. Over the past two years, Glimpse.com (gay11.com) is especially proud of its support of nonprofit causes important to the LGBT community including the Human Rights Campaign, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Aspen Gay & Lesbian Community Fund, Laguna Shanti and the Trevor Project.

Glimpse.com is the newest online singles community created by MatchNet plc, a worldwide leader in the dating and also gay dating industry that runs other successful dating websites, including AmericanSingles.com, JDate.com (for Jewish singles) and others. The backbone of the MatchNet plc business model has always been to provide premium services to a select clientele and it is this style of online matching that Glimpse.com brings to all gays, lesbians and bisexuals.

Glimpse.com, AmericanSingles.com and FaceLink.com are registered trademarks of MatchNet plc. All other products and companies herein may be registered or unregistered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged.

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