Voting Now Open for Icon Challenge 162 at Otherworldlyric

[red_satin_doll]

http://otherworldlyric.livejournal.com/222404.html

What it says on the tin - vote now for your favorite entries in the challenge contest (link above because I'm away from home and this PC hates me *grrr*). And then check out challenge 163 now up. I may have to enter that one as well because I'm having way too much fun with this; and the song lyrics the mods choose have endless possible uses.

I'm eager to see which icon win - and in fact I don't care if I win because I'm genuinely pleased with the icon sets I did for this challenge and I can't wait to share them with y'all.

In other news - a friend told me this morning that Ellen Page, self-proclaimed "little Canadian", just came out of the closet. Which, no surprise to me (my dyke detector was off the charts when I saw her in Juno) but I'm still tickled lavender because it's still a risky thing to do, even if more states in the US and more countries around the world have gay marriage laws. (Spain? Uruguay? SRSLY?) Things really are getting better but in terms of discrimination and prejudice we're not all the way there by a long shot.

Kudos to eilowyn btw for turning me on to Ellen's fierce feminist politics and humor a few months back.

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

We've all known for years that she's gay, so to me it was like, "She came out? I thought she did that ages ago!"

Is it dumb to say I think it's cool you have friends in common?

I guess when someone is a "celebrity" there might be different levels of "coming out" - just as for any of us, really. Coming out to closest friends and family, coming out to coworkers, to strangers etc. Even after I came out in my mid-twenties, it was still something I had to think about with every interaction, esp while I lived in North Carolina. Now twenty years later? Pffft - I'm here, I'm queer, get over yourself. Age has it's advantages.

[lynnenne]

Hahaha, well, it's not like I rub elbows with celebrities or anything on a regular basis. I just happen to know an above-average number of local actors and film industry types because I used to work in TV news. The community in Halifax is really small.

Age has it's advantages.

It certainly does. The older we get, the more comfortable we become with not giving a fuck, about anything. :)

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

The older we get, the more comfortable we become with not giving a fuck, about anything. :)

Nail, head.