The Results are In!

The big winner is the Movie Club, with almost 70% of the votes. I have to say I'm surprised and pleased with how popular Reports on Gay News was too. We will be looking to incorporate both of these features in the near future.

We need to hear from you all now. What movie would you like to have as our first Movie Club feature? Throw out your suggestions and we will do a poll next week so you can vote on them. Since it's my post, I get to make the first suggestion. :) I say Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. I just recently watched it and it might be an interesting compare and contrast with Brokeback. Let's hear from you guys now.

New Features Poll

Spesh and I have been talking about ways to expand the blog. Now let me be clear, we are not changing our J&A focus. We would like to add some features to the blog, sort of like the Out Spotlight is already, that are not necessarily related to J&A that people might like to talk about. It would also really help us during those J&A news droughts too!

Before you vote, let me explain what we mean by each of these-

Movie Club- we would pick a movie (probably through getting suggestions and voting on it), everyone would watch it, and then we would have a discussion about it. I've been told they do this at DC and I remember when there was talk about doing it at WFT. A few people have mentioned to us that they would like this.

Book Discussion- we could do this like the movie club or we could do it where we have a post monthly or every so often where we talk about gay literature, books people are reading, etc.

Music Discussion- we thought this might work by featuring a gay musical artist and then encouraging discussion about gay music or whatever people are listening to. This one is my own selfishness; I love to find out about new artists and this seemed like a good way to do it!

Reports on Gay News- what we had in mind for this one is to do a post that is sort of a round-up of different events that have happened recently that are important to the gay community.

As always, one computer- one vote. And you can only vote for one. I would also like to hear suggestions from you all about which features you might like that I have not listed. This poll will remain open, and be linked in our posts, for at least a few days to give everyone time to vote. When we close it, Spesh and I will talk and decide what we want to do. We can't guarantee what changes will occur. We may incorporate one feature or a few, it depends on how people vote and what we feel we can do a good job with. We are merely looking for ways to make the blog more interactive and encourage participation.

Happy Birthday to Jake's mom, Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal!