Cast Your Vote to Help Urban Peak Win $10,000 to Benefit Homeless Youth, Many of Them GLBT

Click the pic at left to cast your vote for Alex Vaassen and the Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer's Community MVP Contest.

If Alex wins, Urban Peak will receive $10,000. Urban Peak provides services to 2,600 homeless youth every year--many of them gay or bisexual.
“With all of the successes around equality that we have seen just in the past year, it is difficult to imagine that today a young person is coming home to his bags packed, and in that most vulnerable moment of finally having come out to his parents, is asked to leave home," says Dan Hanley, Urban Peak's Director of Development and Public Affairs. "40% of the estimated 1.7 million youth experiencing homelessness identify as LGBTIQ. At Urban Peak, we provide complete and absolute safety for these youth, most of whom have experienced levels of trauma that would shock you.”

Voting Is Open for the 2013 Colorado Springs Pride Awards (and MileHighGayGuy is Nominated!)

MileHighGayGuy's Drew Wilson is honored and delighted to be nominee in the 2013 Colorado Springs Pride Awards in the Media Champion category.

The 12th Annual Colorado Springs LGBT Pride Awards celebrates individuals, organizations & groups in which the local community feels deserve special recognition for their support, efforts and actions toward connecting, supporting and empowering the local LGBT community.

Nominations for each of the nine specific awards (click here for full list) have been accepted by the community at large and then are voted upon again by the local LGBT & Ally community. 2013 Pride Awards will be presented by Colorado Springs Pride on Saturday evening, February 16, 2013 during the Pride Awards Black Tie event held at the Antlers Hilton. The results are kept secret and will NOT be revealed to the nominees until the night of the Awards Ball.

Click here to cast your votes (only once per day, please!). Voting ends on January 15, 2013.

To Do List: Vote Craig C in the Rufus Wainwright Remix Competition

The Rufus Wainwright Bitter Tears Remix Competition ends today at 5pm and Denver's own Craig C needs your votes to take the top spot and snatch that metaphorical trophy.

Says Craig C., "I subscribe to this group called indaba music and when I found out about the Rufus Wainwright remix contest I just had to do it. I usually don't have a lot of time for this kind of thing but I'm such a big Rufus fan that I forced myself to find the time."

Craig C's remix (Craig C's Master Blaster) started out in 58th place before reaching a peak of #2. He's now chilling at the #3 spot but MileHighGayGuy wants to make sure this local boy goes all the way.

Why does Crag C deserve your vote?

"Well," says Craig C, "There are a lot of good remixes in the contest but I feel that I have an exceptional connection with Rufus because I'm such a big fan of his. And the song was produced by Mark Ronson who I also have a lot of respect for. What I tried to do with this remix was capture the musicality of Wainwright and blend it with the soul of Mark Ronson for a kind of '70s groove fusion with a new club feel. The contest ends at 5pm so please vote, vote, vote! Every vote counts and I would love to win."

Click here and cast your vote today before 5pm.