GLADD Announces Media Award Nominees

GLADD released its monstrous list of Media Award nominees, honoring those in every outlet from film to TV to journalism that provides “fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.”

Unfortunately, no Philly outlets made the list. Making an appearance in the Digital Journalism categories are big-name bloggers Andrew Harmon from the Advocate and  Ebony’s Marc Lamont Hill. They are up for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article. blac(k)ademic and Towleroad are among the five nominated for Outstanding Blog.

As for the entertainment categories: Smash and True Blood are up for Outstanding Drama Series, and my new favorite sitcom, The New  Normal, will have to duke it out with Modern Family, Glee and  a handful of others to take home the prize for Outstanding Comedy Series. Honey Boo Boo even makes an appearance in the Outstanding Reality Show category for the “It Is What It Is” episode, in which America’s littlest sweetheart says she doesn’t care if her pet pig Glitzy is gay. How to Survive a Plague, in my opinion, one of the best films of 2012, and Chely Wright: Wish Me Away are up for Outstanding Documentary.

The awards will be doled out in three separate presentations, in New York on March 16, Los Angeles on April 20 and San Francisco on May 11. Check out the entire list of nominees after the jump. 

OUTSTANDING FILM (WIDE RELEASE)

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Cloud Atlas
• ParaNorman
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Your Sister’s Sister

OUTSTANDING FILM (LIMITED RELEASE)

• Any Day Now
• Keep the Lights On
• Mosquita y Mari
• Musical Chairs
• North Sea Texas

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

• Degrassi
• Grey’s Anatomy
• The L.A. Complex
• Smash
• True Blood

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

• Glee
• Go On
• Happy Endings
• Modern Family
• The New Normal

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular LGBT character)

• “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Me What to Do,” Raising Hope
• “Family Matters,” Drop Dead Diva
• “L’Affaire Du Coeur,” Franklin & Bash
• “Lost and Found,” Touch
• “Ruby Slippers,” The Mentalist

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES

• American Horror Story: Asylum
• Hit and Miss
• Political Animals

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY

• Chely Wright: Wish Me Away
• Codebreaker
• Hit So Hard
• How to Survive a Plague
• Vito

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM

• The Amazing Race
• “It Is What It Is,” Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
• The Real L Word
• Small Town Security
• “Welcome to Hollywood,” Pregnant in Heels

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE

• “At Home with Neil Patrick Harris, His Fiancé David Burtka, & Their Twins,” Oprah’s Next Chapter
• “Autoshop Restores Bullied Gay Student’s Car for Free,” The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• “Bishop Gene Robinson,” The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
• “The Husband Who Is Now a Woman and the Daughter Who Is Now a Son,” The Jeff Probst Show
• “Marriage Equality,” The Suze Orman Show

OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA

The Bold and the Beautiful

Days of Our Lives

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE

• “Almost Equal,” Chronicle (WCVB TV5, Boston)
• “Being Transgender in America,” Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC)
• “End of an Error,” The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
• “Golden Star,” Rock Center With Brian Williams (NBC)
• “The Last Closet,” Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT

• “Civil Rights Icon Supports Gay Marriage,” CNN Newsroom (CNN)
• “Controversial Pastor Preaches Against Gays,” Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
• “Matthew Mitcham Olympics Profile,” NBC Olympics (NBC)
• “Obama Endorses Marriage Equality,” Good Morning America (ABC)
• “Scout Mom Dismissed,” MSNBC Live (MSNBC)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

• “Black Church Reaches Out to Gay, Transgender Teens” by Meghan E. Irons (The Boston Globe)
• “Game Changer” by Andy Mannix (City Pages, Minneapolis)
• “Generation Halsted” (series) (Windy City Times, Chicago)
• “Most Local School Districts Ignore State’s Anti-Gay Bullying Law” by Phillip Zonkel (Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif.)
• “Turned Away, He Turned to the Bible” by Douglas Quenqua (The New York Times)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST

• Frank Bruni (The New York Times)
• Bill Nemitz (Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine)
• Leonard Pitts Jr. (The Miami Herald)
• Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)
• Dan Rodricks (The Baltimore Sun)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE

• The Baltimore Sun
• The Boston Globe
• Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine)
• Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa)
• USA Today

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE

• “The First Gay President” by Andrew Sullivan (Newsweek)
• “The Marriage Plot: Inside This Year’s Epic Campaign for Gay Equality” by Molly Ball (The Atlantic)
• “Netherland” by Rachel Aviv (The New Yorker)
• “School of Hate” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely (Rolling Stone)
• “The Transgender Athlete” by Pablo S. Torre and David Epstein (Sports Illustrated)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE

• The Advocate/Out
• New York
• The New Yorker
• People
• Seventeen

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

• “The Beautiful Daughter: How My Korean Mother Gave Me the Courage to Transition” by Andy Marra (HuffingtonPost.com)
• “Boardroom Battle: Directors Clash Over Gay Rights” by Ryan Ruggiero (CNBC.com)
• “Eight Months in Solitary” by Andrew Harmon (Advocate.com)
• “Why Aren’t We Fighting for CeCe McDonald?” by Marc Lamont Hill (Ebony.com)
• “Workplace Protections for LGBT Workers Remain Stalled” by Chris Geidner (BuzzFeed.com)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA

• “The Advocate 45” (series) (Advocate.com)
• “Athletes at Core of ‘Fearless’ Photo Project” by Patrick Dorsey and Jeff Sheng (ESPN.com)
• “‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: Transgender Officers on Secretly Serving in the U.S. Military” by Marc Lamont Hill (Live.HuffingtonPost.com)
• “Edie Takes on DOMA” In the Life (ITLMedia.org)
• “Gay Rights in the US, State by State” (GuardianNews.com)

OUTSTANDING BLOG

• Autostraddle
• blac(k)ademic
• The New Civil Rights Movement
• Rod 2.0
• Towleroad

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

• Gossip, A Joyful Noise (Columbia Records)
• Adam Lambert, Trespassing (19 Recordings, RCA Records)
• Frank Ocean, Channel Orange (Def Jam)
• Scissor Sisters, Magic Hour (Casablanca Records)
• Rufus Wainwright, Out of the Game (Decca/Polydor)

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK

• Astonishing X-Men by Marjorie Liu (Marvel)
• Batwoman by W. Haden Blackman, J.H. Williams III (DC Comics)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Andrew Chambliss, Scott Allie, Jane Espenson, Drew Z. Greenberg (Dark Horse)
• Earth 2 by James Robinson (DC Comics)
• Kevin Keller by Dan Parent (Archie Comics)

OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER

• The Children by Michael Elyanow
• Edith Can Shoot Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat
• The Irish Curse by Martin Casella
• Pieces by Chris Phillips
• Silent by Pat Kinevane

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY

• Bring It On: The Musical, book by Jeff Whitty, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt and Amanda Green
• Cock by Mike Bartlett
• The Columnist by David Auburn
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
• The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF-OFF BROADWAY

• Baby Daddy by Alec Mapa
• From White Plains, written by Michael Perlman in collaboration with Fault Line Theatre
• A Map of Virtue by Erin Courtney
• Sontag: Reborn, adapted by Moe Angelos, based on the book by Susan Sontag
• Tail! Spin! created by Mario Correa

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