26th GLAAD Media Awards: Complete List of Nominees

The Weinstein Company(LOS ANGELES) — Award season is in full swing and the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, celebrating and recognizing “media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives,” were announced Wednesday morning.

In a release from GLAAD, “the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media advocacy organization,” such hits like Transparent and Game of Thrones made the cut.

The GLAAD Awards will take place in Los Angeles on March 21 and in New York on May 9.

Here are the nominees:

OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE

• The Imitation Game
• Love is Strange
• Pride
• The Skeleton Twins
• Tammy

OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE

• Dear White People
• Life Partners
• Lilting
• The Way He Looks
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

• Degrassi
• The Fosters
• Game of Thrones
• Grey’s Anatomy
• How to Get Away with Murder
• Last Tango in Halifax
• Masters of Sex
• Orphan Black
• Pretty Little Liars
• Shameless

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Faking It
• Glee
• Looking
• Modern Family
• Orange Is the New Black
• Please Like Me
• Sirens
• Transparent
• Vicious

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

• “Deep Breath” Doctor Who
• “Down a Tree” Good Luck Charlie
• “Identity Crisis” Drop Dead Diva
• “Let’s Have a Baby” Playing House
• “No Lack of Void” Elementary

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES

• The Normal Heart

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY

• The Case Against 8
• L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin
• Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word
• To Russia with Love
• True Trans with Laura Jane Grace

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM

• Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce
• B.O.R.N. to Style
• Make or Break: The Linda Perry Project
• R&B Divas: Atlanta
• Survivor: San Juan del Sur

OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA

• Days of Our Lives
• General Hospital

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

• Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues
• Angel Haze, Dirty Gold
• Mary Gauthier, Trouble & Love
• Mary Lambert, Heart on My Sleeve
• Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK

• Hawkeye, written by Matt Fraction
• Lumberjanes, written by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis
• Memetic, written by James Tynion IV
• Rat Queens, written by Kurtis J. Wiebe
• Saga, written by Brian K. Vaughan

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE

• “Issues Facing the Transgender Community” Katie
• “Laverne Cox discusses ‘The T Word'” The View
• “Michael Sam” Oprah Prime
• “Pepe Julian Onziema” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• “Robin Roberts” The Ellen DeGeneres Show

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE

• “Coming Out” Nick News With Linda Ellerbee (Nickelodeon)
• “Gay and Muslim in America” America Tonight (Al Jazeera America)
• “Gay Rodeo” This is Life with Lisa Ling (CNN)
• “Infield & Out: Baseball for All” Morning Joe (MSNBC)
• “Transgender Society” [series] Ronan Farrow Daily (MSNBC)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT

• “Change is Coming to the South” Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC)
• “Fired for Being Gay?” MSNBC Live (MSNBC)
• “License to Discriminate?” Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
• “A Model with a Mission” Alicia Menendez Tonight (Fusion)
• “Transgender Tipping Point?” This Week (ABC)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

• “A Christian Family, a Gay Son and a Wichita Father’s Change of Heart” by Roy Wenzl (The Wichita Eagle)
• “For Transgender Service Members, Honesty Can End Career” by Ernesto Londoño (The Washington Post)
• “An Identity to Call Their Own” [series] by Michael A. Fuoco & Mackenzie Carpenter (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• “Longtime Utah LGBT Advocates Recount Brutal History” by Erin Alberty (Salt Lake City Tribune)
• “When They Stopped Waiting” by Shaun McKinnon (The Arizona Republic)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE

• “Do Ask, Do Tell” by S.L. Price (Sports Illustrated)
• “The Forsaken” by Alex Morris (Rolling Stone)
• “Inside the Iron Closet: What It’s Like to Be Gay in Putin’s Russia” by Jeff Sharlet (GQ)
• “Sex Without Fear” by Tim Murphy (New York)
• “The Transgender Tipping Point” by Katy Steinmetz (Time)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE

• Essence
• Glamour
• Out
• Sports Illustrated
• Time

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

• “31 Days of PrEP” [series] (Advocate.com)
• “Black Parents, Gay Sons and Redefining Masculinity” by Edward Wyckoff Williams (TheRoot.com)
• “Conner Mertens came out to his college football team. Now he comes out publicly.” by Cyd Zeigler (Outsports.com)
• “A Nun’s Secret Ministry Brings Hope to the Transgender Community” by Nathan Schneider (America.Aljazeera.com)
• “A Year Later, ‘Nothing’ Has Changed Since Transgender Woman Islan Nettles was Killed” by Tony Merevick (Buzzfeed.com)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA

• “Left Behind: LGBT Homeless Youth Struggle to Survive on the Streets” by Miranda Leitsinger (NBCNews.com)
• “Why did the U.S. Lock Up These Women with Men?” by Cristina Costantini, Jorge Rivas, Kristofer Ríos (Fusion.net)
• “With Technology I Didn’t Have to Sell My Body” by Kerri Pang (MSNBC.com)
• “Young and Gay: Jamaica’s Gully Queens” by Adri Murguia, Christo Geoghegan (News.Vice.com)
• “Young and Gay in Putin’s Russia” by Milene Larsson (News.Vice.com)

OUTSTANDING BLOG

• The Art of Transliness (theartoftransliness.com)
• Autostraddle (autostraddle.com)
• Box Turtle Bulletin (boxturtlebulletin.com)
• Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters (holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com)
• My Fabulous Disease (marksking.com)

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