The Mo and The Ro

So with The Mo Down Under enjoying the Summer weather while us in North America fight the cold like we’re Dennis Quaid, and it being award nomination season and all, I figure I had better get my ass in gear.

GLAAD Media Award nominations came out (swear that was not an intended joke but I’m leaving it to maintain “wordsmith” status) this week, to be handed out March 13th. These nominations and subsequent awards highlight, in the words of GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios,

“Our media awards are an important benchmark for where we are and a way of applauding those networks and news outlets who have portrayed or developed stories that actually reflect the challenges gay people face on a daily basis”

152 nominations in total – check them out below.

21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards – English Language Nominees

Outstanding Film – Wide Release

Everybody’s Fine – Miramax

I Love You, Man  – DreamWorks SKG

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – Lionsgate Films

A Single Man – The Weinstein Company

Taking Woodstock – Focus Features

Outstanding Film – Limited Release

Casi Divas – Maya Entertainment

The Country Teacher – Film Movement

Little Ashes – Regent Releasing

Phoebe in Wonderland – THINKfilm

The Secrets – Monterey Media

Outstanding Drama Series

Brothers & Sisters- ABC

Grey’s Anatomy – ABC

Mad Men – AMC

Skins – BBC America

True Blood- HBO

Outstanding Comedy Series

Beautiful People – Logo

Glee – Fox

GREEK – ABC Family

Modern Family – ABC

United States of Tara – Showtime

Outstanding Individual Episode in a series without a regular LGBT character

“Homeward Bound” – Private Practice (ABC)

“Lisa Says” – The Listener (NBC)

“Pawnee Zoo” – Parks and Recreation (NBC)

“The Real Ghostbusters” – Supernatural (The CW)

“Wait and See” – Private Practice (ABC)

Outstanding TV Movie or Mini-Series

An Englishman in New York -Logo

Pedro – MTV

Prayers for Bobby – Lifetime

Torchwood: Children of Earth- BBC America

Outstanding Documentary

Ask Not – PBS

Be Like Others – HBO

Derek – The Sundance Channel

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls – Diva Productions

U People – Logo

Outstanding Reality Program

The Amazing Race 15 – CBS

Kathy Griffin: MY Life on the D-List – Bravo

Making His Band – MTV

The Real World: Brooklyn – MTV

RuPaul’s Drag Race – Logo/VH1

Outstanding Daily Drama

All My Children – ABC

As the World Turns – CBS

Guiding Light – CBS

One Life to Live – ABC

Outstanding Music Artist

Brandi Carlile -Give Up the Ghost (Sony)

Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster (Interscope)

Gossip – Music for Men (Sony)

Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment (19 Recordings / RCA Records)

Otep – Smash the Control Machine (Victory Records)

Outstanding Talk Show Episode

“Ellen DeGeneres and Her Wife, Portia de Rossi” The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)

“Hell to Pay – Gay Teen Exorcism” The Tyra Banks Show (The CW)

“Mormon Church & Gays” The Joy Behar Show (HLN)

“The Science of Intersex” The Dr. Oz Show (syndicated)

“Sirdeaner Walker Interview” The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)

Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine

“40th Anniversary of Stonewall” In the Life (PBS)

“Angie Zapata Murder Trial” InSession (truTV)

“Bullied to Death?” Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)

“Gay Killings in Iraq” CNN Newsroom (CNN)

“Uganda Be Kidding Me” (series) The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)

Outstanding TV Journalism Segment

“Gay Teen Mutilated” Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell (HLN)

“Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach ‘I Was Utterly Devastated’” CNN Newsroom (CNN)

“Reverend’s Revelation: Minister Speaks Out About Being Transgender” The Early Show (CBS)

“Total Transformation: Why Chaz Bono Decided to Change” Good Morning America (ABC)

“Why Will Won’t Pledge Allegiance” American Morning (CNN)

Outstanding Newspaper Article

“Binational, Same-Sex Couples Face Immigration Problems” by Mike Swift

(San Jose Mercury News)

“Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside” by Tara Parker-Pope (The New York Times)

“Militias Target Some Iraqis for Being Gay” by Paul Wiseman and Nadeem Majeed

(USA Today)

“Minister Kept Secret for 27 Years” by Christine McFadden (The Portland Tribune [Portland, Ore.])

“Transgender Vets a Hidden Population” by Carol Ann Alaimo (Arizona Daily Star [Tucson, Ariz.])

Outstanding Newspaper Columnist

Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)

Deb Price (The Detroit News)

Frank Rich (The New York Times)

Rev. Byron Williams (The Oakland Tribune)

Craig Wilson (USA Today)

Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage

Greeley Tribune [Greeley, Colo.]

Los Angeles Times

The New York Times

Portland Press Herald [Portland, Maine]

The Washington Post

Outstanding Magazine Article

“Coming Out in Middle School” by Benoit Denizet-Lewis (The New York Times Magazine)

“Either/Or: Sports, Sex and the Case of Caster Semenya” by Ariel Levy (The New Yorker)

“Gay on Trial” by Gabriel Arana (The American Prospect)

“Trouble in Paradise” by Jeannine Amber (Essence)

“What’s Right with Utah” by Lisa Duggan (The Nation)

Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage

The Advocate

Entertainment Weekly

The Nation

Newsweek

People

Outstanding Digital Journalism Article

“Former College Football Captain Was Openly Gay” by Cyd Zeigler, Jr. (Outsports.com)

“McMackin’s Slur Reveals Larger Problem” by LZ Granderson (ESPN.com)

“On the Road to Refuge” by Pete Muller (ColorLines.com)

“‘We Love You, This Won’t Change a Thing’” by John Buccigross(ESPN.com)

“Why Can’t You Just Butch Up? Gay Men, Effeminacy, and Our War with Ourselves” by Brent Hartinger (AfterElton.com)

Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia

“AIDS Lifecycle: On the Road” by Derrick Shore (Advocate.com)

“From Stonewall to Mainstream” research by Jessica Bennett, Rebecca Shabad, & Brooke Browne (Newsweek.com)

“The Stonewall Riots: 40 Years Later” produced by Dave Singleton (AARP.org)

Outstanding Comic Book

Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jane Espenson, Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Z. Greenberg, Jim Krueger, Doug Petrie, Joss Whedon (Dark Horse Comics)

Detective Comics by Greg Rucka (DC Comics)

Madame Xanadu by Matt Wagner (Vertigo/DC Comics)

Secret Six by Gail Simone (DC Comics)

X-Factor by Peter David (Marvel Comics)

Outstanding Los Angeles Theater

40 is the New 15 book and lyrics by Larry Todd Johnson, music by Cindy O’Connor

Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins by Brian Christopher Williams

Battle Hymn by Jim Leonard

Bingo with the Indians by Adam Rapp

Lydia by Octavio Solis

Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway

A Boy and His Soul by Colman Domingo

The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney

Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts

Soul Samurai by Qui Nguyen

The Temperamentals by Jon Marans

Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off Broadway

Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party by Aaron Loeb

Devil Boys From Beyond by Buddy Thomas

The Lily’s Revenge by Taylor Mac

She Like Girls by Chisa Hutchinson

Wickets created and conceived by Clove Galilee and Jenny Rogers, adapted from

Fefu and Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes

Special Recognition

Hair book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, music by Galt MacDermot