Sondheim, BILLY ELLIOT & Arias Among 2009 GLAAD Media Award Nominees

The nominations for the 2009 GLAAD Media Awards have been announced, BILLY ELLIOT and Road Show were among the New York theatre related show nominees.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation also announced that Tyra Banks will receive the Excellence in Media Award and Suze Orman will be awarded the Vito Russo Award.

GLAAD also give honors to comicbooks, advertising and journalism.

Ceremonies will be held on March 28 in New York at the Marriott Maquis, April 18 in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre and on May 9 in San Francisco at the San Francisco Hilton.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Find a complete list below:

FILM - WIDE RELEASE
"Brideshead Revisited" (Miramax Films)
"Milk" (Focus Features)
"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" (Columbia Pictures)
"RocknRolla" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company)

FILM - LIMITED RELEASE
"The Edge of Heaven" (Strand Releasing)
"Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom" (New Open Door Productions)
"Save Me" (First Run Features)
"Shelter" (Regent Releasing)
"XXY" (Film Movement)

DRAMA SERIES
"Brothers & Sisters" (ABC)
"The L Word" (Showtime)
"South of Nowhere" (The N)
"Torchwood" (BBC America)
"True Blood" (HBO)

COMEDY SERIES
"Desperate Housewives (ABC)
"Greek (ABC Family)
"Reaper (The CW)
"Skins (BBC America)
"Ugly Betty (ABC)

INDIVIDUAL EPISODE
(in a series without a regular LGBT character)
"Ghostfacers" - "Supernatural" (The CW)
"My Maharishi is Bigger than Your Maharishi" - "Life on Mars" (ABC)
"Slam" - "Ghost Whisperer" (CBS)
"Tandem Repeats" ER (NBC)
"Unidentified Funk" - "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (CBS)

TELEVISION MOVIE
"Affinity" (Logo)
"East Side Story" (Logo)
"Ice Blues: A Donald Strachey Mystery" (here!)
"Oh Happy Day" (Logo)
"On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery" (here!)

DOCUMENTARY
"Chris & Don: A Love Story" (Zeitgeist Films)
"Freeheld" (Cinemax)
"A Jihad for Love" (First Run Features)
"Saving Marriage" (Regent Releasing)
"Sex Change Hospital" (WE tv)

REALITY PROGRAM
"America's Next Top Model" (The CW)
"I Want to Work for Diddy" (VH1)
"Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" (Bravo)
"Shirts & Skins" (Logo)
"Transamerican Love Story" (Logo)

DAILY DRAMA
"All My Children" (ABC)
"As the World Turns" (CBS)

TALK SHOW EPISODE
"Don't Ruin My Gay Wedding" - "The Tyra Banks Show" (syndicated)
"Ellen & Portia's Wedding Day" - "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (syndicated)
"Gays in the Ghetto" - "The Tyra Banks Show" (syndicated)
"The Pregnant Man" - "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (syndicated)
"Transgender Triumphs" - "The Tyra Banks Show" (syndicated)

TV JOURNALISM - NEWSMAGAZINE
"Becoming" (multi-part series) Channel 3 News (WCAX-TV3 [Burlington, Vt.])
"Born in the Wrong Body: All in the Family" (MSNBC)
"Funding the Marriage War" - "In The Life" (PBS)
"George Takei and Brad Altman" (multi-part series) The Early Show (CBS)
"The Whispers" Outside the Lines (ESPN)

TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT
"Bishop in the Eye of the Storm" - "Today" (NBC)
"Gay in Cuba" - "The Situation Room" (CNN)
"Special Comment: Prop 8" - "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" (MSNBC)
"Rick Warren: Change to Believe In?" - "The Rachel Maddow Show" (MSNBC)
"Taking to the Streets" - "Good Morning America Weekend" (ABC)

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"Gay Marriage Ruling Ended Long Journey Of Soul" by Alaine Griffin (The Hartford Courant)
"Morehouse College Faces its Own Bias - Against Gays" by Richard Fausset (Los Angeles Times)
"A New Wave of Gay Seminarians Prepares to Take the Pulpit" by Bradley Campbell (City Pages [Minneapolis, Minn.])
"Owning His Gay Identity - at 15 Years Old" by Theresa Vargas (The Washington Post)
"Special Report: In Transition" by Karen Lovett and Ashley Smith (The Telegraph [Nashua, N.H.])

NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Alfred Doblin (The Record [Bergen, N.J.])
Michael Mayo (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Deb Price (The Detroit News)
Rebecca Walsh (Salt Lake Tribune)

NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
The Denver Post
The Des Moines Register
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
The Washington Post

MAGAZINE ARTICLE
"Becoming a Black Man" by Daisy Hernández (ColorLines)
"Death on Terminal Island" by Ben Ehrenreich (Los Angeles)
"Let God Love Gene Robinson" by Andrew Corsello (GQ)
"Our Mutual Joy" by Lisa Miller (Newsweek)
"Second Nature" by Maximillian Potter (5280)

MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Advocate
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Entertainment Weekly
Newsweek
People

DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Do Kill" by Lennox Samuels (Newsweek.com)
"Gay Athletes are Making Their Mark" by LZ Granderson (ESPN.com)
"Gay in Wasilla" by Julie Bolcer (Advocate.com)
"Gays in Primetime" by James Hillis (AfterElton.com)
"Invisible and Overlooked" by Jessica Bennett (Newsweek.com)

DIGITAL JOURNALISM - MULTIMEDIA
"Excluded Gay Bishop Reacts" by Mary Jordan (WashingtonPost.com)
"Gay Seniors" (multi-part series) by Jessica Bennet, Jennifer Molina and Carl Sullivan (Newsweek.com)
"Is Gay the New Black?" by Jessica Bennet and Jennifer Molina (Newsweek.com)

MUSIC ARTIST
Jay Brannan, "goddamed"
Hercules & Love Affair, "Hercules & Love Affair"
k.d. lang, "Watershed"
The Magnetic Fields, "Distortion"
Sam Sparro, "Sam Sparro"

COMIC BOOK
"The Alcoholic" by Jonathan Ames (Vertigo/DC Comics)
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" by Drew Goddard, Jeph Loeb and Joss Whedon (Dark Horse Comics)
"Final Crisis: Revelations" by Greg Rucka (DC Comics)
"Secret Six" by Gail Simone (DC Comics)
"Young Avengers" Presents by Ed Brubaker, Brian Reed, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Paul Cornell, Kevin
"Grevioux and Matt Fraction" (Marvel Comics)

ADVERTISING - ELECTRONIC
"I Don't Judge" IKEA
"Logo Unbuttoned" Levi's
"Market" Chemistry.com
"We All Walk In Different Shoes - Nina Poon" Kenneth Cole
"Rugby Drinking Party" Jawbone

ADVERTISING - PRINT
"First Comes Love. Then Comes Marriage." Macy's
"Home for the Holidays" Swanson
"Rings" Paris Las Vegas
"We All Walk In Different Shoes - Nina Poon & Robert Jason" Kenneth Cole
"Will You Marry Me?" Absolut Vodka

LOS ANGELES THEATER
"As Much As You Can" by Paul Oakley Stovall
"Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" by Bert V. Royal
"He Asked for It" by Erik Patterson
"The Little Dog Laughed" by Douglas Carter Beane
"Secrets of the Trade" by Jonathan Tolins

NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY
"Billy Elliot: The Musical" book and lyrics by Lee Hall, music by Elton John
"Body Awareness" by Annie Baker
"PRAYER FOR MY Enemy" by Craig Lucas
"Road Show" book by John Weidman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
"Wig Out!" by Tarell Alvin McCraney

NEW YORK THEATER: OFF-OFF BROADWAY
"Arias with a Twist" by Joey Arias and Basil Twist
"The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac" by Taylor Mac
"Dina Martina: Off the Charts!" by Grady West
"Lustre, a Midwinter Trans-Fest" by Justin Bond
"Play it Cool" book by Martin Casella and Larry Dean Harris, music by Phillip Swann, lyrics by Mark Winkler

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
"The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later - The Lasting Legacy of Matthew Shepard" (Sirius XM Radio)

EXCELLENCE IN MEDIA AWARD
Tyra Banks

VITO RUSSO AWARD
Suze Orman