I'd like to say I'm always so able to get to the heart of things, but I'm not. I have to do a lot of flailing, myself, and get all the arm-waving out of the way before I'm able to even consider trying for the big picture.

A process that, I have to say, was not helped in the least by LLF's rather obtuse and obscure way of using a lot of words when they could've just said "honor and promote excellent stories by and for members of the LGBT community". That, right there, would've cut my flailing down by half, because I wouldn't have wasted so much time going "what the hell does gender-identity and gender-orientation mean?"

You'd think for an organization ostensibly run for and by writers, they wouldn't have mangled their communications so thoroughly. Obviously, you'd be wrong! *eyeroll*