GLEE, PRISCILLA, Ricky Martin & More Receive GLAAD Nominations
By: Robert Diamond Jan. 19, 2012
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, announced today the nominees for its 23rd 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.
Among the nominees: Beginners, starring Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor, Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close and Janet McTeer, J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer, Showtime's hit shows Shameless and The Big C, Glee, Modern Family, CBS ratings leader NCIS, Becoming Chaz, the AIDS documentary We Were Here, Dancing with the Stars with Carson Kressley and Chaz Bono, the wedding of a gay staffer on Conan, and David Letterman's interview with Chaz Bono, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, TheRoot.com's "Black and Transgender: A Double Burden," and Lady Gaga for her Born This Way album.
Spanish-language nominees include Ricky Martin for his album Música + Alma + Sexo, telenovelas Las Aparicio, Los Exitosos Gome$, and El Último Matrimonio Feliz, news programs Noticiero con Paola Rojas and Despierta América, and ESPN Deportes' SportsCenter.
The GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held in New York on March 24, 2012 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square; in Los Angeles on April 21 at the Westin Bonaventure; and in San Francisco on June 2 at San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Special Honorees for each city will be announced in the coming weeks.
GLAAD announced 116 nominees in 25 English-language categories, and 35 Spanish-language nominees in 10 categories. In the English-language categories, cable networks earned 23 nominations, while broadcast networks garnered 19 nominations.
23RD ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS NOMINEES
OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
Albert Nobbs (Roadside Attractions)
Beginners (Focus Features)
J. Edgar (Warner Bros. Pictures)
OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
Circumstance (Roadside Attractions)
Gun Hill Road (Motion Film Group)
Pariah (Focus Features)
Tomboy (Rocket Releasing)
Weekend (Sundance Selects)
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family)
Shameless (Showtime)
Torchwood: Miracle Day (Starz)
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
The Big C (Showtime)
Exes and Ohs (Logo)
Glee (Fox)
Happy Endings (ABC)
Modern Family (ABC)
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular LGBT character)
"Acceptance" Man Up! (ABC)
"Beards" Hot in Cleveland (TV Land)
"The Boy Has Style" Are We There Yet? (TBS)
"Prom" Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
"Recruited" NCIS (CBS)
OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
Cinema Verite (HBO)
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
Becoming Chaz (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)
The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (HBO)
Two Spirits (PBS)
We Were Here (Red Flag Releasing)
The World's Worst Place to be Gay? (Logo)
OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (Sundance Channel)
The Glee Project (Oxygen)
The Real L Word (Showtime)
The Voice (NBC)
OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE
"Chaz Bono" Late Show with David Letterman (CBS)
"Children & Teens Caught in the Wrong Bodies" Anderson (syndicated)
"Coming Out on the Oprah Show: 25 Years of Unforgettable Guests" The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)
"The Wedding of Scott Cronick & David Gorshein" Conan (TBS)
"Zach Wahls" The Ellen Degeneres Show (syndicated)
OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
All My Children (ABC)
Days of Our Lives (NBC)
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE
"Day One" The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
"Finding Home" In the Life (PBS)
"GLBT in Texas" Spotlight DFW (KXAS TV-5 [Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas])
"The 'Sissy Boy' Experiments" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
"They Call it Corrective Rape" World's Untold Stories (CNN)
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT
"Battle Against Bullying" ABC World News With Diane Sawyer (ABC)
"Children of LGBT Parents" MSNBC News Live (MSNBC)
"Gay Dads Adopt 12 Kids" Good Morning America (ABC)
"Kye Allums" Outside the Lines (ESPN)
"Split by Potential Deportation" CNN Newsroom (CNN)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"AIDS @ 30" (series) (Windy City Times [Chicago, Ill.])
"Coming Out to America" by Melanie Asmar (Westword [Denver, Colo.])
"Even on Religious Campuses, Students Fight for Gay Identity" by Erik Eckholm (The New York Times)
"Led by the Child Who Simply Knew" by Bella English (The Boston Globe)
"Local Lesbian Couple Navigates Life's Daily Challenges as Parents" by Najla Amundson (The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead [Fargo, N.D.])
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Frank Bruni (The New York Times)
Alfred Doblin (The Record [Bergen, N.J.])
Maureen Dowd (The New York Times)
Peg McEntee (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Craig Wilson (USA Today)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
The Boston Globe
The New York Times
The Oregonian [Portland, Ore.]
The Salt Lake Tribune
Pioneer Press [St. Paul, Minn.]
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
"15th Anniversary of the Passage of the Defense of Marriage Act" (series) by Chris Geidner (Metro Weekly)
"Black & Gay in Corporate America" by Carolyn M. Brown (Black Enterprise)
"Making It Work" by Rod McCullom (Ebony)
"The Secret I Don't Want to Keep Anymore" by Janet Mock as told to Kierna Mayo (Marie Claire)
"Transitions" by Eliza Gray (The New Republic)
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Advocate/Out
Entertainment Weekly
People
Time
US Weekly
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
"Adam and Pete: Love in a Time of War" by Max J. Rosenthal (HuffingtonPost.com)
"Black and Transgender: A Double Burden" by Kellee Terrell (TheRoot.com)
"The Rainbow Struggle" (series) (GlobalPost.com)
"Soldier Leaves Legacy Much Larger Than 'He Was Gay'" by Wayne Drash (CNN.com)
"What are Little Boys Made Of" by Jim Burroway (BoxTurtleBulletin.com)
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA
"Breaking Boundaries" by Eliza Gray and Margy Slattery (TheNewRepublic.com)
"Coming Out" by Sarah Kramer (NYTimes.com)
"Glamorous Gay Dance Scene a 'Family Affair'" by Brooke Sopelsa and Drew Katchen (MSNBC.com)
"Injustice at Every Turn" (ITLMedia.org)
"Transgender: A Special Report" (series) (TimesUnion.com [Albany, N.Y.])
OUTSTANDING BLOG
The Bilerico Project (http://www.bilerico.com/)
Mombian (http://www.mombian.com/)
The New Civil Rights Movement (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/)
Rod 2.0 (http://rodonline.typepad.com/)
Towleroad (http://www.towleroad.com/)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
Beverly McClellan, Fear Nothing (Oarfin Records)
Girl in a Coma, Exits & All the Rest (Blackheart Records)
Hunx and His Punx, Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)
Lady Gaga, Born This Way (Interscope Records)
MEN, Talk About Body (IAMSOUND Records)
OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
Avengers: The Children's Crusade by Allan Heinberg (Marvel)
Batwoman by J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman (DC Comics)
Secret Six by Gail Simone (DC Comics)
Veronica Presents: Kevin Keller by Dan Parent (Archie Comics)
X-Factor by Peter David (Marvel Comics)
OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER
Bonded by Donald Jolly
House of the Rising Son by Tom Jacobson
Killer Queen: The Story of Paco the Pink Pounder by Peter Griggs
No Word in Guyanese for Me by Wendy Graf
Who's Your Daddy? by Johnny O'Callaghan
OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF–BROADWAY
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner
Maple & Vine by Jordan Harrison
Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott
Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam
Unnatural Acts: Harvard's Secret Court of 1920 conceived by Tony Speciale
OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF–OFF BROADWAY
The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony) by Holly Hughes
The Escape Artist book by John Kelly, songs by John Kelly & Carol Lipnik
The Momentum by Boo Killebrew, Geoffrey Decas O'Donnell & Jordan Seavey??
She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen
Southern Comfort book and lyrics by Dan Collins, music by Julianne Wick Davis
Photo Credit: Walter McBride/WM Photos
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