Voting in the Golden Handbags Awards, 2017 is now live.
This year is the 21st anniversary of the very first Golden Handbag Awards, staged in 1996 at the Brighton Dome with the original tiller girls topping the bill.
To mark the milestone, a few changes have been made to the voting categories this year.
In the community section the choirs and sports groups will now have their own award categories, because, there are so many of them they deserve to be recognised with their own Golden Handbag category.
For the first time this year and to reflect the changing nature of the commercial LGBT+ scene a Golden Handbag for the Favourite Mixed Venue is being introduced.
Over the last two years we have honed the voting to a fine art. Last year the 6 people who tried to cheat and break through our firewall were quietly disqualified. This year we won’t be so charitable with anyone who attempts to cheat by multiple voting.
Gscene editor, James Ledward, said: “For many people a Golden Handbag Award is more than a piece of paper, it is recognition of years of work serving the city’s many and varied LGBT+ communities.”
If you want to nominate a volunteer or worker at a voluntary sector LGBT+ organisation or a long serving member of staff at a commercial venue for one of the special awards (these include the Straight Allies Award, Fundraising Award and Lifetime Achievement Award), email your suggestions and nominations to info@gscene.com by Monday, May 22.
Winners will be announced at a star studded ceremony at the Hilton Brighton Metropole on Sunday, June 11 at 7.30pm.
Lola Lasagne who will be your host on the evening, added: “Keep your campaigns clean and fair and remember you get a Golden Handbag not because you want one but because you deserve one.”
To vote in the Golden Handbags 2017, click here:
Closing date for voting is Monday, May 29 at midnight.
Winners will be announced at a star studded ceremony at the Hilton Brighton Metropole on Sunday, June 11 at 7.30pm.
Tickets costing £20 are available from Prowler in St James Street, Brighton from Tuesday, May 2.
There are two VIP tables left costing £240 for 12 people. To book email: info@gscene.com or telephone: 07730 777290
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