Congrats, Ethan!

I wanted to take a moment to recognize Ethan over at Brat Boy School. While he came up a little short in his quest for the title of 2005 Best LGBT Weblog Award, he still ran a great race in what, at times, was a rather nasty little popularity contest.
Unfortunately, he's taken a good bit of flack for that at times as there's a segment of his readers who want him to just shut up and be pretty and not express any kind of opinion that might be different from theirs... and that's on top of receiving his usual anti-gay nasty-grams. How very sad.

I may not agree with his political opinions, but I've always respected his willingness to speak his mind and talk about issues that are important to him. He's always been willing to discuss things even when dealing with a viewpoint that is very different from his own. Strange, while the Award may have gone to someone else, he sounds like a winner to me.