Best of Gay D.C. Ballot Picks

The Washington Blade is hosting its annual Best of Gay D.C. awards, and we've pulled together our favorite lez-friendly peeps and places to make your voting as easy as finding a babydyke in the boys section of Gap Kids. Check out our picks and get them on your ballot.

But hurry up: Nominations close tomorrow! GO DO THE DAMN THANG.

Best date restaurant: Hank’s Oyster Bar

Best independent coffee shop: Big Bear

Best dance club: Phase 1 Dupont

Best place to meet women: Phase 1 (original)

Best LGBT-friendly straight bar: U Street Music Hall or Red Derby

Best live music: Black Cat

Best neighborhood bar: DC9

Best Women's Party: She.Rex

Best alternative scene event: Where the Girls Go parties (*cough cough*)

Best art gallery: Transformer

Best local blog: Where the Girls Go (um, duh.)

Best spa/salon: Bang

Best women's clothing store: Buffalo Exchange

Best secondhand shop: Annie Creamcheese

Best LGBT social group: Lez Get Together

Best local LGBT musician: The Coolots

Best DJ: (pick your fave!) vANNIEty kills, Natty Boom, Alex DB, DJ Mim, Junebullet, Ladyface, DJ Rosie

Best (LGBT) Hill staffer: Kat Skiles

Best stylist: Jen Martinez-Moore

Okay... now vote!

Christina

When Christina isn't writing for WTGG, she's assassinating dance floors in purple high-tops, causing bike accidents, taming the wilderness, practicing her beatboxing and begging Erykah Badu to cast her in a music video. A big, 90's-inspired ball of sass, Christina's greatest mission - driven by a dilettante interest in science - is to try everything once (maybe twice) and find out how the world works. She's the queirdest girl you know.