Category: Comedy

Vote your favorite in the Comedy category.[Poll #1471904]

Category: Comedy

Vote your favorite in the Comedy category.[Poll #1471904]

Category: Coming of Age / Young Adult

Vote your favorite in the Coming of Age / Young Adult category.[Poll #1471908]

Category: Coming of Age / Young Adult

Vote your favorite in the Coming of Age / Young Adult category.[Poll #1471908]

Category: Contemporary

Vote your favorite in the Contemporary category.[Poll #1471926]

Category: Contemporary

Vote your favorite in the Contemporary category.[Poll #1471926]

Category: Fantasy

Vote your favorite in the Fantasy category.[Poll #1471929]

Category: Fantasy

Vote your favorite in the Fantasy category.[Poll #1471929]

Category: Futuristic

Vote your favorite in the Futuristic category.[Poll #1471934]

Category: Futuristic

Vote your favorite in the Futuristic category.[Poll #1471934]

Category: Historical

Vote your favorite in the Historical category.[Poll #1471942][Poll #1471942]

Category: Historical

Vote your favorite in the Historical category.[Poll #1471942][Poll #1471942]

Category: Mystery / Thriller

Vote your favorite in the Mystery / Thriller category.[Poll #1471980][Poll #1471980]

Category: Mystery / Thriller

Vote your favorite in the Mystery / Thriller category.[Poll #1471980][Poll #1471980]

Category: Paranormal / Horror

Vote your favorite in the Paranormal / Horror category.[Poll #1471994][Poll #1471994]

Category: Paranormal / Horror

Vote your favorite in the Paranormal / Horror category.[Poll #1471994][Poll #1471994]

Category: Biography / Memoir

Vote your favorite in the Biography / Memoir category.[Poll #1472001][Poll #1472001]

Category: Biography / Memoir

Vote your favorite in the Biography / Memoir category.[Poll #1472001][Poll #1472001]

Category: Poetry

Vote your favorite in the Poetry category.[Poll #1472004]

Category: Poetry

Vote your favorite in the Poetry category.[Poll #1472004]

Category: Debut Fiction

Vote your favorite in the Debut Fiction category.[Poll #1472010]

Category: Debut Fiction

Vote your favorite in the Debut Fiction category.[Poll #1472010]

The Rainbow Awards: Second Phase

If you didn't notice, the 2nd Phase of the Rainbow Awards is started! In this second phase, for 2 weeks, you can vote your favorite book/author in each Category, if the Category has more than 10 candidates, you can vote 1 candidate every 10 (so, for example, if there are 2 groups of 10, you can vote 1 book in a group and 1 book in another group).



If you already voted in Phase 1, you can vote again in Phase 2: yes, you can vote two time for your favorite book! Only 1 book per author per category is allowed, and the books are ordered per popularity from Phase 1.



So, what are you waiting? Go vote!


Fiction:

Comedy:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/820756.html

Coming of Age / Young Adult:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/821168.html

Contemporary:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/821460.html

Fantasy:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/821646.html

Futuristic:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/821864.html

Historical:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822268.html

Mystery / Thriller:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822346.html

Paranormal / Horror:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822605.html

Debut Fiction:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/823540.html

Non-Fiction:

Biography / Memoir:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822966.html

Poetry:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/823109.html

All the credit for graphics goes to Alex Beecroft (alex_beecroft)

The Rainbow Awards: Second Phase

If you didn't notice, the 2nd Phase of the Rainbow Awards is started! In this second phase, for 2 weeks, you can vote your favorite book/author in each Category, if the Category has more than 10 candidates, you can vote 1 candidate every 10 (so, for example, if there are 2 groups of 10, you can vote 1 book in a group and 1 book in another group).



If you already voted in Phase 1, you can vote again in Phase 2: yes, you can vote two time for your favorite book! Only 1 book per author per category is allowed, and the books are ordered per popularity from Phase 1.



So, what are you waiting? Go vote!


Fiction:

Comedy:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/820756.html

Coming of Age / Young Adult:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/821168.html

Contemporary:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/821460.html

Fantasy:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/821646.html

Futuristic:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/821864.html

Historical:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822268.html

Mystery / Thriller:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822346.html

Paranormal / Horror:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822605.html

Debut Fiction:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/823540.html

Non-Fiction:

Biography / Memoir:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822966.html

Poetry:
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/823109.html

All the credit for graphics goes to Alex Beecroft (alex_beecroft)

Gay Commercial: Levi's

I like this commercial since it's easy, meaning that, it has a gay couple but it's nothing of "odd" at least in the contest of the commercial. It's more important than the guys are pretty and young, not that they are both men. And having that from one of the major firm in the world, it's really a good sign of how times are changing.

Commercial Closet Association

Company: Levi Strauss & Co.
Brand: Levi's
Ad Title: Change
Business Category: Fashion/Apparel
Media Outlets: Television
Country: United States
Region: North America
Agency: Bartle Bogle Hegarty
Year: 2007
Target: Mainstream

Gay Commercial: Levi's

I like this commercial since it's easy, meaning that, it has a gay couple but it's nothing of "odd" at least in the contest of the commercial. It's more important than the guys are pretty and young, not that they are both men. And having that from one of the major firm in the world, it's really a good sign of how times are changing.

Commercial Closet Association

Company: Levi Strauss & Co.
Brand: Levi's
Ad Title: Change
Business Category: Fashion/Apparel
Media Outlets: Television
Country: United States
Region: North America
Agency: Bartle Bogle Hegarty
Year: 2007
Target: Mainstream

Giovanni's Room Event: A Reading with Kate Bornstein

Time: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:30 p.m.
Location: Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia
Title of Event: A Reading with Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein is the author of many books including, most recently, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws (Seven Stories, $16.95 pb).

Buy at Giovanni's Room

Buy at Amazon

Hir earlier books are the ones who made hir famous: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Random House, $14.95 pb) & My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (Routledge, $29.95 pb).

The store will have at the reading a few copies of hir early novel Nearly Roadkill, which is long out of print.

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.

In Hello Cruel World, Kate bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, "Hello, Cruel World" is a much-needed unconventional approach to teenage suicide prevention for marginalized youth who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

"Hello, Cruel World "features a catalog of 101 Alternatives to Suicide that range from the playful (Moisturize), to the irreverent (Disbelieve the Binary), to the highly controversial (Get Laid. Please). Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts' harmless desires, the book has only one directive: "Don't be mean." It is this guiding principle that brings its reader on a self-validating journey, which forges wholly new paths toward a resounding decision to choose life.

Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one kind and spirited package.

Giovanni's Room Event: A Reading with Kate Bornstein

Time: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:30 p.m.
Location: Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia
Title of Event: A Reading with Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein is the author of many books including, most recently, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws (Seven Stories, $16.95 pb).

Buy at Giovanni's Room

Buy at Amazon

Hir earlier books are the ones who made hir famous: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Random House, $14.95 pb) & My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (Routledge, $29.95 pb).

The store will have at the reading a few copies of hir early novel Nearly Roadkill, which is long out of print.

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.

In Hello Cruel World, Kate bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, "Hello, Cruel World" is a much-needed unconventional approach to teenage suicide prevention for marginalized youth who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

"Hello, Cruel World "features a catalog of 101 Alternatives to Suicide that range from the playful (Moisturize), to the irreverent (Disbelieve the Binary), to the highly controversial (Get Laid. Please). Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts' harmless desires, the book has only one directive: "Don't be mean." It is this guiding principle that brings its reader on a self-validating journey, which forges wholly new paths toward a resounding decision to choose life.

Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one kind and spirited package.