My opinions on the Lambda Awards
debacle (not that any of you care about my opinions on it, but it took me long enough to figure them out; I want to record them for my own posterity, if only so I can later marvel at how wrong I was. Also, may I note that I am continually befuddled by what does and doesn't wind up on UFB? ..oh god, while I was writing this it ended up on f_w instead, heaven help us.)
1. The Lambda Literary Foundation has every right to make this decision, they are not oppressing anyone by doing so, and I think it was, in fact, a good decision: the nature of glbt literature and community has changed, and the LLF needed to change as well, to keep doing what it wanted to do.
2. The way they went about implementing and publicizing this decision was deeply, deeply unprofessional, and has major problems with the implementation. (And frankly, the more I read, the more I suspect that it was also made for the wrong reasons, and some of the people closely involved who oppose the decision probably have reasons to oppose that aren't visible to us.) All the same, I still support the decision itself.
3. People talking on all sides of this argument are full of entitlement, privilege, and bonus!racism, and I don't want to be on a side with them. :/ The people on the anti-lambda side are managing to be offensive in far more creative and comprehensive ways, while the pro-lambda side are being more offensive in ways that are grindingly personal to me, so congrats there guys!
4. If I try to talk about it in any more depth, I run smack-dab into my major issues about the umbrella label glbt and its component parts (and, yes, glbttqqi++ too), and any attempt to go into any depth beyond that rapidly involves into me rambling at tl;dr length about that instead of privilege, so I shall keep my thinking about labels until a better time to talk about them.