Nominate Us For Best Local Blogger

It’s not that often that I make a direct request to pinkBFLO.com readers. This is an exception to that rule.

Artvoice is holding their Annual “Best of Buffalo” survey, and we really, REALLY want to win one. (Well, mostly Corey, since I’ve already won several times before for a little fundraiser I used to work on… but I want to win too).

Why vote for us? Let me make the case:

1) We’re new.

2) We’re the only Buffalo bloggers to have been featured on Perez Hilton, along with Queerty, Towleroad, and JoeMyGod. Yeah, who would have guessed!?

3) We’ve traveled across the state to bring you updates on politics, marriage equality, drag queens, Wendy Williams and Buffalo, NY. But mostly Wendy Williams.

4) Every success we’ve had so far has been wild and unlikely and fantastic, and this would be all of those and more. Imagine Mo’Nique winning an Academy Award, and you’ll get the idea.

5) One of my classmates just won an Olympic Gold Medal. I’m not bitter, but I’m really grasping at anything I can get my hands on.

6) I can’t wait for the argument over who gets to keep the winner’s plaque between Corey and I. If we win, I’ll record it and post it on YouTube as a bonus.

7) We both live in the city, and love the city, and want to showcase the city to a wider audience, hence the blog.

8) I am disturbingly competitive, and short of being cast on Survivor, I’ll take this.

So, how can you help us win? Just visit best.artvoice.com, register, and fill out the form. Remember, you’ll need to enter at least 20 answers for them to count your ballot or it gets tossed.

Forward this onto your friends, talk it up with your family, and let everyone you know that we’re in the running.

Thanks in advance, and I’ll keep you posted on any updates.

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LGBT Newsreel

– Crate&Barrel is hosting “The Ultimate Wedding Contest,” where gay couple Jonathan and Gregory have risen to the top of the pack. You can vote for them, or another couple of your choosing, by clicking here.

– ManCrunch.com, the male-to-male dating website that was denied ad-time during the superbowl, has offered a free membership to the newly out state senator from CA, Roy Ashburn. The senator was unwillingly outted after leaving a gay night club and receiving a DUI. He has a history of anti-LGBT votes.

– The Working Families Party has a great new ad against the MTA fare hike.

–  A potential hate-crime in Brooklyn. The victim has been treated and released.

– Sign up to vote for Buffalo’s Best (and vote for pinkBFLO.com as best local blogger)!

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*UPDATE* ‘Tickle Me Massa’ on Glenn Beck

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Homosexuality as a Mental Illness

Last week, Chicago Public Radio show, This American Life, discussed the American Psychiatric Association’s long time classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. The show covers the arguments made in favor of the categorization, the activists that protested it, and finally the movement from within the institution that managed to remove homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973.

You can download the show on itunes for 99 cents here, or download free on zshare by clicking here.

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*UPDATES* GOP State Senator, "I'm gay" & Congressman Massa Explains Harassment

California Republican State Senator, who was arrested for a DUI last week after leaving a gay night club, has officially announced that he is gay. When questioned on his anti-LGBT voting record he credited his constituents wishes.

Eric Massa, a Congressman from NY, will officially resign his office effective today at 5pm. He originally told the media he was retiring due to escalating medical issues and his doctor’s advice, but news quickly broke of a possible sexual harassment scandal with a male intern.

On a Sunday talk show, the Congressman described the event in question:

“A staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid. His points were clear and his words were far more colorful than that,” Massa said. “And I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and said, ‘Pal, what I really ought to be doing is fracking you.’ And then [I] tussled the guy’s hair, and left.”

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