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22nd Annual GLAAD Media Award Nominees Announced

Early this morning, The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamtion (GLAAD) announced the nominees for its 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards.  “By recognizing and honoring media for outstanding images of the LGBT community, the GLAAD Media Awards serve as a benchmark for the media industry and complement GLAAD’s work to bring LGBT images and stories to Americans.” This is a special year for GLAAD as it marks the organization’s 25th anniversary.

GLAAD announced 114 nominees in 23 English-language categories, and 33 Spanish-language nominees in 9 categories.

Among the nominees: Lisa Cholodenko‘s The Kids Are All Right, The Girl Who Played with Fire, HBO’s acclaimed drama True Blood, Fox’s hit show Glee, ABC’s hit comedy Modern Family, NBC’s hit sitcom 30 Rock, Essence.com’s “Bridal Bliss: Aisha and Danielle,” and Chely Wright. 

GLAAD produced a video montage of some of the nomiees and categories which you can see below. Following that, a full text list of all categories and nominees….

22nd ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS NOMINEES

 

OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE

Burlesque (Screen Gems)

Easy A (Screen Gems)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Music Box Films)

The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Universal Pictures)

OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE

Howl (Oscilloscope Pictures)

I Love You Phillip Morris (Roadside Attractions)

La Mission (Screen Media Ventures)

Patrik, Age 1.5 (Regent Releasing)

Undertow (Wolfe Releasing)

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

Brothers & Sisters (ABC)

Degrassi (TeenNick)

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)

Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family)

True Blood (HBO)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

Glee (Fox)

GREEK (ABC Family)

Modern Family (ABC)

Nurse Jackie (Showtime)

United States of Tara (Showtime)

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE

(in a series without a regular LGBT character)

“Escape the Castle” Bored to Death (HBO)

“Innocence” Law & Order (NBC)

“Klaus & Greta” 30 Rock (NBC)

“Queen of Mean” Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)

“Samaritan” Law & Order: UK (BBC America)

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY

8: The Mormon Proposition (Red Flag Releasing)

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (Sundance Channel)

Prodigal Sons (First Run Features)

“Sylvester” UnSung (TV One)

Out. The Glenn Burke Story (Comcast SportsNet Bay Area)

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM

The Fabulous Beekman Boys (Planet Green)

Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (Sundance Channel)

Project Runway (Lifetime)

Top Chef: Just Desserts (Bravo)

TRANSform Me (VH1)

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE

“Constance McMillen” The Ellen DeGeneres Show

(syndicated)

“Neil Patrick Harris” The Talk (CBS)

“Rebuilding Home After Tragedy: The Seth Walsh Story”

The Nate Berkus Show (syndicated)

“Ricky Martin Coming Out as a Gay Man and a New Dad”

The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)

“Transgender Kids: Too Young to Decide?” The Dr. Oz

Show (syndicated)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM — NEWSMAGAZINE

“”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (series) The Rachel Maddow Show

(MSNBC)

“Gay Teen Suicides” (series) Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)

“Katie Miller: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Outside the Lines

(ESPN)

“Olson and Boies on Same-Sex Marriage” Bill Moyers Journal

(PBS)

“Transitions” Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT

“Don’t Ask…” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS)

“Fort Worth Speech” The Last Word with Lawrence

O’Donnell (MSNBC)

“Gay Teens Talk Their Truth” CNN Newsroom (CNN)

“Images of Protest” ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

(ABC)

“Mom, Dad… I’m Coming Out” Today (NBC)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

“Coming Out, Fitting In” by Rosemary Winters

(The Salt Lake Tribune)

“D.C. Gay Couple Caps a Momentous First by Tying the

Knot” by Monica Hesse (The Washington Post)

“Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi’s Suicide Spurs Action

Across U.S.” by Judy Peet (The Star-Ledger

[Newark, N.J.)

“A Tragic Love Story” by Steve Friess (LA Weekly)

“Worlds Apart” by Lauren Smiley (SF Weekly)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST

Peg Mcentee (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)

Frank Rich (The New York Times)

Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)

Rev. Byron Williams (The Oakland Tribune)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Denver Post

Los Angeles Times

The New York Times

The Salt Lake Tribune

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE

“All That’s Left is God” by Michelle Theall (5280 Magazine)

“‘I Was Scared to Sleep’: LGBT Youth Face Violence Behind

Bars” by Daniel Redman (The Nation)

“It’s a Shocking Trend: Gay Teens Being Bullied to the Point

of Suicide” by Kenneth Miller (Ladies’ Home Journal)

“Just Another Girl (Who Used to be a Boy)” by Genevieve

Field (Glamour)

“What Happens When You Find the One…And He’s Nothing —

Nothing — Like You Expected?” by Allison Cooper

(O, The Oprah Magazine)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE

The Advocate/Out

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Entertainment Weekly

People

US Weekly

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

“The Camera in the Closet: Gay Service Members Speak Out

to ABC News About Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by Mary

Kathryn Burke (ABCNews.com)

“‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Hurts African-American Women the

Most” by Lynette Holloway (TheRoot.com)

“Ice Cracks Beneath Weir’s Critics” by LZ Granderson

(ESPN.com)

“View From Washington” (series) by Kerry Eleveld

(Advocate.com)

“Wrestler Hudson Taylor a Champion for Gay Rights” by Jim

Buzinski (Outsports.com)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM —

MULTIMEDIA

“Bridal Bliss: Aisha and Danielle” by Bobbi Misick

(Essence.com)

“Censoring Wojnarowicz” (IntheLifetv.org)

“A Gay Family Album” (Newsweek.com)

“Kicked Out But Ready to Go Back” by Jon Groat

(Newsweek.com)

OUTSTANDING BLOG

The Bilerico Project (http://www.bilerico.com/)

Blabbeando (http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/)

Joe. My. God. (http://joemygod.blogspot.com/)

Pam’s House Blend (http://www.pamshouseblend.com)

Rod 2.0 (http://rodonline.typepad.com/)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights (Secretly Canadian)

Big Freedia, Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1 (Big Freedia Records)

Chely Wright, Lifted Off the Ground (Vanguard Records)

Kele Okereke, The Boxer (Glassnote Records)

Scissor Sisters, Night Work (Downtown Records)

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK

Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Scott Allie, Brad Meltzer,

Joss Whedon (Dark Horse Comics)

Fogtown byAndersen Gabrych (Vertigo/DC Comics)

Veronica by Dan Parent (Archie Comics)

X-Factor by Peter David (Marvel Comics)

Young Avengers: Children’s Crusade by Allan Heinberg

(Marvel)

OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER

Dr. Cerberus by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa

Haram Iran by Jay Paul Deratany

Revolver by Chris Phillips

Something Happened by L. Trey Wilson

The Twentieth-Century Way by Tom Jacobson

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER:

BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY

In the Wake by Lisa Kron

The Kid, book by Michael Zam, lyrics by Jack Lechner,

music by Andy Monroe

Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl

The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell

Secrets of the Trade by Jonathan Tolins

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER:

OFF-OFF BROADWAY

Lay of the Land by Tim Miller

Let Them Eat Cake by Holly Hughes, Megan Carney and

Moe Angelos

This One Girl’s Story, book by Bil Wright, music and lyrics

by Dionne McClain-Freeney

Vaginal Davis Is Speaking from the Diaphragm by Vaginal

Davis

When Last We Flew by Harrison David Rivers

 

SPANISH-LANGUAGE NOMINEES

OUTSTANDING NOVELA

??Dónde está Elisa? (Telemundo)

OUTSTANDING DAYTIME TALK SHOW EPISODE

“Mamá vístete de hombre” Casos de Familia (Univision)

“No quiero padre, ni hermano” Casos de Familia

(Univision)

“La Proposición 8” Caso Cerrado (Telemundo)

“El sida no mata amor” Caso Cerrado (Telemundo)

“Yo no soy un pervertido” ??Quién Tiene la Razón?

(Univision)

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW INTERVIEW

“Entrevista con hombres transgénero” Don Francisco Presenta

(Univision)

“Entrevista con Manolo Cardona de Contracorriente” Escenario

(CNN en Español)

“Matrimonios del mismo sexo” Al Punto (Univision)

“Saliendo del closet después de los 30” El Show de Cristina

(Univision)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM — NEWSMAGAZINE

“En busca de Emma” Levántate (Telemundo)

“En el cuerpo equivocado” Al Rojo Vivo (Telemundo)

“En nombre del amor” Primer Impacto (Univision)

“Indignante Abuso” Primer Impacto (Univision)

“Ricky Martin…Sin secretos” Aquí y Ahora (Univision)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT

“Aumenta el hostigamiento” Despierta América (Univision)

“El matrimonio de homosexuales” Encuentro (CNN en

Español)

“Matrimonios del mismo sexo; Sí vs No” Mega News Nocturno

(Mega TV)

“Pueblo Chico, Orgullo Grande” Noticias Univision 33

(KTVW-TV 33 [Phoenix, Ariz.])

“Reconocimiento Nacional” Noticiero Telemundo (Telemundo)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

“Acosados hasta el punto del suicidio” by Rubén Moreno

(La Opinión)

“Homofobia en el deporte: el último closet” by Alberto C.

Medina Gil (Primera Hora)

“El regalo de Ricky Martin: La revelación de

homosexualidad del cantante es un gran avance para la

sociedad gay, dicen expertos” by Sigal Ratner-Arias

(Associated Press)

“Terror en la comunidad gay” by Osman Pérez Méndez

(El Nuevo Día)

“El viaje largo para encontrarse a sí misma” by Santos

Juárez (El Diario NY)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE

“Estoy feliz de ser quien soy” by María Morales (People en

Español)

“Fedro, de ¡Viva el Sueno!, piensa casarse y adoptar a un niño”

by Abel Jimenez (TvNotas USA)

“Reaccionaron líderes, políticos, sicólogos, y artistas de esta

sociedad” by Ana Lilia Cortés (TvNotas USA)

“Ricky Martin, un papá en paz” by Lena Hansen (People en

Español)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

“Christian Chávez reacciona contra Paquita la del Barrio”

by Yoselín Acevedo (PeoplenEspanol.com)

“Fedro llegó para quedarse” by Amy Linares

(PadrisimoMagazine.com)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

Christian Chávez, Almas transparentes (EMI)

Fedro, Besos excesos (Warner Music)

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