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Oh dear.

Openly gay Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns writes to direct us to an online raffle for the boxer shorts given him by Ellen DeGeneres when he appeared to speak about his heart-wrenching video about LGBT bullying. Raffle tickets are only $5 each and all proceeds go to the Trevor Project! But do it right now because the winner will …

GayTravel.com’s contest to select their North American gay travel guru is in its last few days and our own Father Tony remains a strong contender to become a finalist. Hit the link (they make you register, ugh) and find “Tony Adams” under the “guru” button. Be sure to award him the full five points. Trust me, Father Tony’s the man …

Now that he’s a retired man of leisure, our beloved Father Tony has entered GayTravel.com’s contest to become their Gay Travel Guru, a six-month gig which would take him all around North America to sample and review gay hotspots. The contest has now entered its second round and is open to voting from the public. Please click over and view …

Montreal Pride has launched a “Queer Of The Year” contest in which the winner gets a week in Montreal, a shopping spree, and their very own float in the parade. Details at the link and in the video clip below. You don’t have be Canadian to win and you’ve got until July 22nd to enter.

Now this is the Eurovision kitsch I love. Folk music, accordions, blonds, and bare feet. And not a pale American pop imitation.

Mikey and Earl write to let us know they are competing in Crate & Barrel’s “Ultimate Wedding Contest” whose winners will be chosen by an online poll. Their dream wedding: I’ve thought long and hard about how to pull off the most spectacular gay wedding New York City has ever seen. If this dream comes true, (1) the celebration will …

Well, it was a fun distraction for a couple of weeks, but Open Left’s Mike Lux has won Air America’s “Favorite Progressive Blogger” contest. I came in second, which is pretty damn good considering I didn’t know about the contest until I was a semi-finalist! Congratulations, Mike! After five weeks of competition, dozens of tweets, emails, and blog posts — …

Well, crap. Mike Lux over at OpenLeft has zoomed past me. If only I had a mailing list with thousands of names, dangit. But that’s fair and square and he’s a great voice in the progressive blogosphere. Voting ends at 5PM tomorrow, so who knows, maybe somebody out there has their own mailing list to put me and Pam on. …

Air America has posted what I think will be the final rankings update before their “America’s Favorite Progressive Blogger” contest ends at 5pm on Thursday. Somehow I’m still clinging onto the lead, but Mike Lux has screamed into second place. I am Monica Geller, dammit.

Today Air America released an updated ranking in their rebooted contest and its two homofascist/hellbound/pinko contestants are in the lead! Does the “Go me” dance.* Does the “Go Pam” dance.* Don’t worry, all this is over in a week, so you’ll only have to hear about it…say…seven more times.*Something like the cabbage patch. I think.

Air America has rebooted their contest to choose your favorite progressive blogger, discarding all the votes submitted in the first two days and instituting a new system requiring the submission of an email address. Only the votes made from yesterday and onward will be counted. Shortly before the earlier system was ditched, I was behind Media Matters’ Karl Frisch by …

Air America has updated their voting system to require an email address in order to prevent folks from voting more than once. I had thought an IP tracker would prevent that, but I guess they don’t want people voting from both from their work and home computers. Last time I looked, I was a few points behind Media Matters’ Karl …

Squee! Pam Spaulding and I made the Top Five in the Air America thingy. Thanks y’all! Final voting is now open via their insta-results widget. The contest ends Dec. 17th. I can’t tell if you get to vote every day, like in some of these things. Anyone? 1. Digby, Hullabaloo2. Mike Lux, Open Left 3. Karl Frisch, Media Matters 4. …

Air America has posted on their Twitter feed that I’m “neck and neck” in the semi-finals for their “vote for your favorite blogger” thingamajiggy. Thanks for yanking me out of 11th place, y’all! Voting form here. This round ends today. And this comes to mind for some reason: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans…..”

Apparently I am a semi-finalist in a contest I didn’t know existed. Air America Media is running a promotion asking you to vote for your favorite progressive blogger. The winner gets a week-long cruise to the Mexican Riviera with Air America hosts, including our heroine, Rachel Maddow. I’m way down at #11 in the semi-finals voting, which ends tomorrow. But …