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The Gay People's Choice Awards: Voting is open!

AfterElton.com Staff

January 13, 2008

Voting has Closed. AfterElton will announce the winners in early February.

Fans of film, television and music find themselves at the start of what could possibly be a very boring awards season. For one thing, the writers' strike has put the kibosh on nominees actually attending awards ceremonies. The Golden Globes, set to air last night, were canceled. The People's Choice Awards tried to get by with pre-taped acceptance speeches last week — and lost half its usual television audience. And even if the writers' strike weren't playing havoc with the awards shows, the GLBT community doesn't exactly have a lot to root for given how sparse 2007 was in terms of gay visibility.

But just because there wasn't much award-worthy gay-specific entertainment, that doesn't mean that gay (and gay-friendly!) viewers don't have opinions on what should be recognized for general excellence in the past year.

Like the People's Choice Awards, we thought we'd ask the public (well, our public at least) to vote on what they considered the best of 2007. Call it the Gay People's Choice Awards.

We're asking you to vote on your favorites in the traditional movie, television, music, and internet categories, but at the end we've included several gay-specific categories that you won't find covered anywhere else this awards season!

For each category we've assembled what we consider to be the top five contenders, but if your favorite isn't listed never fear - write-in candidates are allowed.

Voting will be open until midnight Monday, January 28th . We'll tally the results and announce the winners in early February.