Time Magazine has started a poll on the Best TIME Cover ever. Guess who’s winning? Yep. The gay one herself, Ellen Degeneres. By a margin of a hundred miles.

If nothing else, this just proves how intense we lesbians can be when we find something we can identify with, whether it’s a movie, or a TV series, or a comic book, or in this case, an opinion poll. As the old saying goes, there’s power in numbers. If we could only translate that into a solid voting block, then we’d really be in business. But I digress…

Since Ellen’s 1997 cover looks set to be the clear winner (not without protest from some people), I’ve been thinking about what other covers I could to vote for. Here’s a few that comes to mind:

• 2006 - You
• 1999 - Albert Einstein
• 1966 - Is God Dead?
• 1980 - The Day the Music Died (John Lennon)
• 1983 - Computer of the Year

And these are the ones I’ll never, ever vote for:

• 1945 - Adolf Hitler
• 1933 - Joseph Goebbels
• 1991 - Evil
• 1924 - Sigmund Freud
• 1984 - Cholesterol

About the accusations of “cheating” made by a few of the individuals who wrote comments on TIME, well, I’ll leave it with a quote from Rita Mae Brown, from recent interview wherein she was asked, “Do you feel as though things have changed a lot for lesbians and for gays?”

Yes, I think so. I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it. And given the reaction of the so-called Christian Right — I would put that in quotes because I don’t believe they’re Christians at all — I would have to say that people have been wildly successful.

This is a screenshot of the results so far. You can still vote ’til the rest of the week, then they feature the top covers on a special edition in April. Now don’t go overzealous and just vote once for each cover (you need to “grade” them as you vote, so you could actually make a negative vote), lest we be accused of fanaticism by the upright folks. Ready? Vote here.