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GLAAD announces media awards nominees

Category: Latest International Created on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:25 Written by Robert Manser

Leading media rights watchdog, GLAAD, has announced its nominees for this years media awards.

On Wednesday, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo—along with Glee, Modern Family, The New Normal, Happy Endings and Go On—were listed as GLAAD Media Awards nominees as well as a swath of mainstream titles giving positive coverage to Equality and LGBTIQ issues.

Below is a complete list of nominees for the 2013 GLAAD Media Awards, which will be presented at three ceremonies in three different cities this spring.

Outstanding Film—Wide ReleaseCloud Atlas
ParaNorman
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Your Sister's Sister

Outstanding Film—Limited ReleaseAny Day Now
Keep the Lights On
Mosquita y Mari
Musical Chairs
North Sea Texas

Outstanding Drama SeriesDegrassi
Grey's Anatomy
Smash
The L.A. Complex
True Blood

Outstanding Comedy SeriesGlee
Go On
Happy Endings
Modern Family
The New Normal

Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBT character)Raising Hope, "Don't' Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do"
Drop Dead Diva, "Family Matters"
Franklin & Bash, "L'Affaire Du Couer"
Touch, "Lost and Found"
The Mentalist, "Ruby Slippers"

Outstanding TV Movie or MiniseriesAmerican Horror Story: Asylum
Hit and Miss
Political Animals

Outstanding DocumentaryChely Wright: Wish Me Away
Codebreaker
Hit So Hard
How to Survive a Plague
Vito

Outstanding Reality ProgramHere Comes Honey Boo Boo
Pregnant in Heels
Small Town Security
The Amazing Race
The Real L Word

Outstanding Talk Show EpisodeOprah's Next Chapter, "At Home With Neil Patrick Harris, His Fiance David Burtka & Their Twins"
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, "Autoshop Restores Bullied Gay Student's Car for Free"
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, "Bishop Gene Robinson"
The Suze Orman Show, "Marriage Equality"
The Jeff Probst Show, "The Husband Who is Now a Woman and the Daughter Who is Now a Son"

Outstanding Daily DramaThe Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our Lives

Outstanding TV Journalism—NewsmagazineChronicle, "Almost Equal"
Melissa Harris-Perry, "Being Transgender in America"
The Rachel Maddow Show, "End of an Error"
Rock Center With Brian Williams, 'Golden Star"
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, "The Last Closet"

Outstanding TV Journalism SegmentCNN Newsroom, "Civil Rights Icon Supports Gay Marriage"
Anderson Cooper 360, "Controversial Pastor Preaches Against Gays"
NBC Olympics, "Matthew Mitcham Olympics Profile"
Good Morning America, "Obama Endorses Marriage Equaliy"
MSNBC Live, "Scout Mom Dismissed"

Outstanding Newspaper ArticleThe Boston Globe, "Black Church Reaches out to Gay, Transgender Teens"
City Pages, "Game Changer"
Windy City Times, "Generation Halsted"
Press-Telegram, "Most Local School Districts Ignore State's Anti-Gay Bullying Law"
The New York Times, "Turned Away, He Turned to the Bible"

Outstanding Newspaper ColumnistBill Nemitz, Portland Press Herald
Dan Rodricks, The Baltimore Sun
Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post
Frank Bruni, The New York Times
Leonard Pitts Jr., The Miami Herald

Outstanding Newspaper Overall CoveragePortland Press Herald
Sioux City Journal
The Baltimore Sun
The Boston Globe
USA Today

Outstanding Magazine Article"Netherland" by Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker
"School of Hate" by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Rolling Stone
"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
"The Transgender Athlete" by Pablo S. Torre and David Epstein, Sports Illustrated

Outstanding Magazine Overall CoverageNew York
People
Seventeen
The Advocate/Out
The New Yorker

Outstanding Digital Journalism Article"Boardroom Battle: Directors Clash Over Gay Rights" by Ryan Ruggiero, CNBC.com
"Eight Months in Solitary" by Andrew Harmon, Advocate.com
"The Beautiful Daughter: How My Korean Mother Gave Me the Courage to Transition" by Anda Marra, Huffingtonpost.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"Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Transgender Officers on Secretly Serving in the U.S. Military" by Marc Lamont Hill, Live HuffingtonPost.com
"Athletes at Core of 'Fearless' Photo Project" by Patrick Dorsey and Jeff Sheng, ESPN.com
"Edie Takes on DOMA" In the Life, ITLMedia.org
"Gay Rights in the US, State by State", GuardianNews.com
"The Advocate 45" (series), Advocate.con

Outstanding BlogAutostraddle
blac(k)ademic
Rod 2.0
The New Civil Rights Movement
Towleroad

Outstanding Music ArtistAdam Lambert, Trespassing
Frank Ocean, Channel Orange
Gossip, A Joyful Noise
Rufus Wainwright, Out of the Game
Scissor Sisters, Magic Hour

Outstanding Comic BookAstonishing X-Men
Batwoman
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Earth 2
Kevin Keller

Outstanding Los Angeles TheaterEdith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
Pieces
Silent
The Children
The Irish Curse

Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway and Off-BroadwayBring It On: The Musical
Cock
The Columnist
The Whale
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off BroadwayA Map of Virtue
Baby Daddy
From White Plains
Sontag
Tail: Spin!