24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Nominees Announced

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the nominees for its 2013 Media Awards. The organisation’s diverse range of gongs covers everything from film and TV to magazine articles and comic books, acknowledging the LGBT related work going on in various spheres.

On the fiction film front there are two awards, with one honouring the Outstanding Film (with at least some LGBT content) that got a wide release in the US, while the other gives the nod to smaller movies that only got a limited released. On the Wide Release list are The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Cloud Atlas, ParaNorman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Your Sister’s Sister, while the Limited Releases nominated include Any Day Now, Keep the Lights On, Mosquita y Mari, Musical Chairs and North Sea Texas. Interestingly, Paranorman is the first PG rated movie ever included in its category, suggesting gay character are reaching into more different types of films than ever before.

In the Outstanding Documentary category, the nominees include Chely Wright: Wish Me Away, about the gay country music singer, as well as the hard-hitting AIDS documentary, How To Survive A Plague. There’s also Vito, about activist and Celluloid Closet author Vito Montiel, Hit So Hard, about Hole drummer Patty Schemel and Codebreaker, which looks at the incredible life of gay cryptographer and father of computing, Alan Turing.

The list of nominees across all the categories is as much an acknowledgement of the range of LGBT issues dealt with well in the US (in the face of much hostility), such as talk show episodes looking at the lives of transgender people, theatre touching on gay issues and gay-related online journalism.

GLAAD gives out its Media Awards at three ceremonies, on March 16th in New York City, on April 20th in Los Angeles, and on May 11th in San Francisco. Take a look at the full list of nominees below:

OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros. Pictures)
ParaNorman (Focus Features)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment)
Your Sister’s Sister (IFC Films)

OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
Any Day Now (Music Box Films)
Keep the Lights On (Music Box Films)
Mosquita y Mari (Wolfe Releasing)
Musical Chairs (Paladin)
North Sea Texas (Strand Releasing)

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
The L.A. Complex (The CW)
Smash (NBC)
True Blood (HBO)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Glee (Fox)
Go On (NBC)
Happy Endings (ABC)
Modern Family (ABC)
The New Normal (NBC)

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular LGBT character)
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Me What to Do,” Raising Hope (Fox)
“Family Matters,” Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
“L’Affaire Du Coeur,” Franklin & Bash (TNT)
“Lost and Found,” Touch (Fox)
“Ruby Slippers,” The Mentalist (CBS)

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
Hit and Miss (DirecTV)
Political Animals (USA)

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
Chely Wright: Wish Me Away (First Run Features)
Codebreaker (TODpix)
Hit So Hard (Variance Films)
How to Survive a Plague (Sundance Selects)
Vito (HBO)

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
The Amazing Race (CBS)
“It Is What It Is” Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)
The Real L Word (Showtime)
Small Town Security (AMC)
“Welcome to Hollywood,” Pregnant in Heels (Bravo)

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

OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

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 (http://www.autostraddle.com)
blac(k)ademic (http://blackademic.com)
The New Civil Rights Movement (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
Rod 2.0 (http://rodonline.typepad.com)
Towleroad (http://www.towleroad.com)

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