Tuesday, January 15, 2008

C'mon, I Should Get An Award For Being A Lesbian

Long about a year ago, I ran across a little community blog called The Lesbian Lifestyle. There, I found a whole bevy of Lesbians blogging their little hearts out in one place. It was like finding the girl bar of the Internet! Good thing, too, because I don't go to bars and can't stay up past 10 pm when the music starts.

About the same time, it was running its first-ever Lesbian Blog of the Year Award. I thought, “Heck, why not?” And, sure enough, thanks to handful of devoted readers, I came in the top 5 and was a finalist. I even won—technically—but withdrew because I’m pretty sure I didn’t get 100 actual legitimate votes in 2 hours at the tail end of the competition--I doubted I had 100 readers at the time. Curly McDimple over at Ham & Cheese on Wry was awarded the prize—right on Curly! Fabulous Tina-cious was also finalist and I read her all the time.

Over the course of the last year, I did some posting over there at TLL. I read some great posts too. I hope you'll visit my daily blog, and if you like it, please go vote for the 2007 Lesbian Blog of the Year.

I mean, what’s the point of being a Lesbian if you can’t get an award for it? Can't get married, can't have equal protections under the law, but by golly, maybe I can win that beautiful pink award--hope you'll help!

8 Comments:

ndpthepoetress Jean Michelle Culp said...

Good Luck Hahn! Don't forget Pink is also for The Breast Cancer Site, click to help give Free Mammograms!

Me. Here. Right now. said...

Done - from multiple computers, ndp

Anonymous said...

Thanks Hahn! May you have multiple luck winning :)

Susan Helene Gottfried said...

You really had enough integrity to withdraw? Wow. THAT is awesome and yes, deserves you the award, just for that.

mauniejames3 said...

good for you..just let us know when and you have got it..

Mo and The Purries said...

Great post.
I'm off right now to vote for you.
You're right - if we can't get married (right now there is a divorce lawyer somewhere going D'OH over my breakup!!!) at least you should get a pretty award!

mo

Me. Here. Right now. said...

Nominations are being held right now - if you click the link in my post, Maun.

Susan, thanks so much for the nomination.


Mo - Thanks - knew you were fabulous! Must be in the genes.

Jos said...

Of course you deserve an award! And I am off to vote right now.
But on a serious note, what I think is even more important: gay people should deserve the right to get married and definitely should have all the same rights and protection by law, etc. as non-gay people. I am not gay myself, but I still feel very lucky to live in a country (the Netherlands) where there are no legal obstacles to same rights for gay people. I strongly feel that it is a disgrace to mankind that there are still countries, states and religions (!) that are against this.