ABQs Common Bond Launches New Website

From Common Bond


Common Bond is putting together a new web site to try to fill the communication gap that is gapping in the Albuquerque LGBTIQ communities. The new site is CommonBondNM.org It started rolling out last night and should be full active today, Nov. 1. We are starting out with the resource list from Common Bond's old site, some news feeds and a link to LGBT Press for regional news, and calendar for anyone to post calendar items.

As it gets going we will be adding a "What's Happening" with "Eyes About Town" and other columns about things happening around town teasers of events coming up, issues arising and with photos & comments of past events. There will
- be a place to post opinions, ask for assistance & for opinions, and place to blog & comment and say what is on your mind,
- we will create some ways for people to do some networking, and
- groups will be able to set up their own sub-sites that can have their own calendar and it will be possible to limit to members.

What we hope is that it will become a reliable and authoritative source of information on all things happening in about & concerning the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersex, Two-Spirit, and Queer communities and their allies. We will be having meetings and training so people can learn how to use it better. We hope you will add your voice to this community web site.

This is a beginning. We want it to be a community web site, one that each of the community members feels like represents them in a way. It is open for you to put on it what you want. We are looking for folks to contribute to the web site, to author articles and columns and to manage the content be posted to the site. We will be having meetings and training so people can learn how to use it better. We hope you will add your voice to this community web site.

Check out the site: http://commonbondnm.org and leave a comment via the "Feedback" item at the bottom in the upper left menu of Primary Links.

If you are unfamiliar with Common Bond, it's full name is Common Bond New Mexico Foundation. It is the oldest gay & lesbian organization in New Mexico having been formed in 1981. It ran Albuquerque's lesbian & gay community center from 1983 to 1998. It still runs U21, an every Friday night social & informative gathering for youth under 21. In the last couple of years it has added Center Without Walls, to put on programs that would happen at a community center and Drops of Rain, an electronic monthly LGBTITQ collection plate to assist the people to make regular payments to those creating their community. Many of the current establish organizations spun off from groups that started at Common Bond. We are looking to again be that center for people work their magic, focus efforts and connect people to strengthen and enliven our community and communities here in Albuquerque and New Mexico.