Towleroad wins 2008 Weblog Award for Best LGBT Blog

Not to diminish but...

Pam's House Blend is very unique. The content is much more in depth than Towleroad or Joe.My.God. (I don't visit The Bilerico Project enough to express and opinion about them.)

I think Towleroad jumped in popularity this year due to the lists and updates of Join the Impact events. I know I began visiting the blog much more frequently. Until a few months ago, it was a bit too heavy on gossip and pop culture stuff for my tastes. The content has really changed focus quite a bit -- and that's a good thing.

I like Joe.My.God. because it serves as a nice digest of LGBT news. But, there's not a lot of meat to the matter there.  

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 07:52:08 AM CST

Agreed

The one thing Towleroad does very well, and that keeps me checking in regularly, is coverage of international gay news.  Nobody else seems to pay it much attention.

But the "pop culture stuff" annoys the hell out of me.  Nine times out of ten I don't know who that cute little TV-star twink in the story is.  Much less do I care about the rumors about this or that underwear model.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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by: QScribe @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:13:48 AM CST

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"Pop culture stuff"

That drove me away well over a year ago. The obsessive focus on white gays got to be a pain in the ass, as with Towle's inability to notice or deter racist commentary. That tripe would have to change a whole lot for me to boost his hit count again.

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by: Decaf @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 10:16:29 AM CST

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Pam, you're in The New Yorker - not too shabby!

Pam, I hope you know how great you are and how great the Blend is, all popularity contests aside.  And in the aftermath of the hacking of Soapblox, none other than Jeffrey Toobin gave you a mention in this week's Talk of the Town column in The New Yorker.  A wonderful and deserved promotional.  Take care, Cindy Rizzo

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by: ctrizzo @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 07:57:21 AM CST

Towlewho?

Seriously, Pam, I never go there unless it's linked here or someplace else. It's not on my radar, it's not on my menu unlike The Blend, TPM, ThinkProgress, DailyKos,the WaPo, the NYT, Raw Story, Der Spiegel, Buzzflash, and Salon(in which I just published for the first time! http://www.salon.com/books/fea...  

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 08:55:20 AM CST

Weblog Awards

There's four places I go every day: Pam's, Joe's, Andy's and my own blog, not necessarily in that order! Pam, of all the sites in the contest, yours is the most unique, especially insofar as it offers some in depth coverage not found elsewhere. Good work!

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by: dailyhorse @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 10:12:51 AM CST

Towleroad #1?

Maybe I caught them on some off days, but I have not been impressed by Towleroad.

Winning a beauty contest doesn't necessarily make the winner the best entry.

Pam's House Blend and The Bilerico Project are the two best sites I know about and check daily.

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by: Cathy Cat @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 11:27:34 AM CST

The Blend is number One in my book...

in several categories at that...
Thanks always.  

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 12:06:25 PM CST

PHB rocks

I never spend any time on Towleroad (unless Pam has directed me there for a story!) mostly because of the reasons mentioned already...too white, too pop-culture-obsessed, and most of all, too male-dominated. But I am on PHB almost daily and I feel very enriched, educated, and outraged (in the right ways) by most of what I read here.

I really, really appreciate Pam's House Blend and the community of thoughtful folks who participate in the dialogue.

Pam's is really the only GLBT-focused blog that I spend any time on, and that's because it brings perspectives from ALL parts of our community, including straight allies, people of color, transgendered folks, etc.

Thanks for ALL you do, Pam, and I will say you should have been #1!!

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by: elizabethws @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 13:25:03 PM CST

Full disclosure

I go to both you and Towleroad (and HuffPost, fwiw) pretty regularly.  I like both blogs for different reasons, but voted for your blog four or five times because while I enjoy the photos of scantily clad underwear models (sue me; I'm a gay human), my notion of "best" leans more in the direction of what you do really well at the Blend.

Still, congrats to Andy.  I'll still spend a lot more time here ...

"There are two kinds of people in this world -- the kind who separate the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."  -- Gloria Steinem

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by: red7eric @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 14:14:19 PM CST

Pam f*ucking ROCKS!!! Congratulations Pam!

vanhattan

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by: vanhattan @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 15:07:22 PM CST

Since I'm from Chicago

I voted early and often for the House Blend.

After viewing the other LGBT Blogs, I still think yours is the best by far, Pam. I hit yours, Raw Story, and Huff post every day for my news.

Congrats on an excellent blog!  

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by: Canoe52 @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 15:16:59 PM CST

congrats to Towerload

I want more LGBT voices, not fewer. Each adds to our presence online.
I know who I think is the BEST, a certain Blog-Stremist...now there's a title to wear with HONOR, it shows YOU are who frightens the clown carload of bat sh*t crazies.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 16:42:00 PM CST