Monday, January 5, 2009

MileHighGayGuy 2008 Year in Review: Weekly Poll Results

2008 was a crazy year – lots of ups and downs and lots of winners and losers. But in the weekly MileHighGayGuy polls, you voted and made your voices heard with the following results:

Favorite Colorado GLBT publication: Metromode (36%) (Are they still around? Somebody let me know!)

Best gay bar/club in Denver: The Wrangler (52%) (Looking for a few good men? Look no further!)

Pick for President: Hillary Clinton (42%) (She didn’t make the Oval Office, but she’ll more than fill Condi’s shoes as Secretary of State.)

Favorite Denver restaurant: Hamburger Mary’s (42%) (Go for the food, stay for the fun – and the cute guys … and the great parties … and the drag queens … and the patio in the summer … and so on.)

Best Colorado festival: PrideFest (66%) (250,000 queens and queers can’t be wrong.)

See the rest of the results, including how many MHGG readers have slept with someone of the opposite sex or been gay bashed, after the jump.

New Colorado Sunday liquor law: It’s a good thing (68%) (Who doesn’t enjoy a little holy water on Sundays?)

Concerned about the economy?: Hell, yes! (42%) (We’re all in this together – we just didn’t know “this” would be the poorhouse!)

Ever slept with someone of the opposite sex?: Yes (57%) (We all experiment in high school.)

Ever been gay bashed?: No (37%) (This was a close one, because while 37 % haven’t, 35 % have, and for 27 %, a failed attempt was made – we’ve got a long way to go, and Rick Warren ain’t helping things, Obama!)

Favorite national gay publication: Instinct (46%) (You must have seen MHGG in there – right?)

Who do you think you are?: Normal (36%) (Define “normal.”)

What’s your sport?: Swimming, hockey, and tennis tied (28% each) (Hot sex wasn’t among the choices.)

Did Angie Zapata provoke her own murder?: No (61%) (You said it – being closeted isn’t a crime, and nobody deserves to die for who they are.)

Clay Aiken coming out: No surprise (54%) (His macho-butch-he-man act didn’t fool MHGG readers.)

Should straight dating services be legally bound to cater to gays?: No (50%) (If they’re forced to find you a match, imagine who you could end up with! Stick to the bars, where you can at least see what they really look like after you sober up!)

Call in gay to work on Day Without a Gay?: No (62%) (If you’re on the Internet reading MHGG, I KNOW you’re at work!)

Boycott Utah?: Yes (54%) (Umm, we didn’t really go there BEFORE the Prop. 8 vote anyway.)

Date a transguy?: No (64%) (MHGG readers are into heavy equipment.)

Who should fill Ken Salazar’s shoes?: Mayor John Hickenlooper (64%) (Sorry, Hick. You got bumped by Michael Bennett – not the Broadway choreographer or the Chargers running back, but the DPS superintendent. But some of us are happy about that – we want you to stay right here in Denver!)

Has Rick Warren affected your opinion of Obama?: Yes (42%) (This was a close one, but MHGG readers don’t like to be stabbed in the back – maybe that’s why they chose Hillary in the primaries.)

You said it in 2008. Thank you for your votes and opinions. Keep reading MHGG and be sure vote the polls in 2009.