‘Kids Are All Right,’ ‘Burlesque,’ ‘Glee’ Among GLAAD Media Awards Nominees

Lisa Cholodenko‘s The Kids Are All Right and the features Burlesque, I Love You Phillip Morris and Easy A, along with the series True Blood, Glee and Modern Family, were among the nominees revealed Wednesday by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for its 22nd annual GLAAD Media Awards. The rock band Scissor Sisters and The Oprah Winfrey Show‘s episode with Ricky Martin also made GLAAD’s list, which included 114 nominees in 23 English-language categories, and 33 Spanish-language nominees in nine categories.

“This year’s nominees represent some of the images and stories at the root of the growing acceptance of our community and support for our equality,” GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios said. “They also have created a benchmark for inclusion of our community that other media outlets should look to.”

The GLAAD Media Awards, which recognize and honor media for their fair and inclusive representations of the gay community, will take place March 19 in New York; April 16 in Los Angeles; and on May 14 in San Francisco.

The complete list of nominees appears on the next page.

OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE

Burlesque (Screen Gems)
Easy A (Screen Gems)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Music Box Films)
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Universal Pictures)

 

OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE

Howl (Oscilloscope Pictures)
I Love You Phillip Morris (Roadside Attractions)
La Mission (Screen Media Ventures)
Patrik, Age 1.5 (Regent Releasing)
Undertow (Wolfe Releasing)

 

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family)
True Blood (HBO)

 

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

Glee (Fox)
Greek (ABC Family)
Modern Family (ABC)
Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
United States of Tara (Showtime)

 

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

“Escape the Castle,” Bored to Death,  (HBO)
“Innocence,” Law & Order (NBC)
“Klaus & Greta,” 30 Rock (NBC)
“Queen of Mean,” Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
“Samaritan,” Law & Order: UK (BBC America)

 

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY

8: The Mormon Proposition (Red Flag Releasing)
Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (Sundance Channel)
Prodigal Sons (First Run Features)
Sylvester, UnSung (TV One)
Out: The Glenn Burke Story (Comcast SportsNet Bay Area)

 

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM

The Fabulous Beekman Boys (Planet Green)
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (Sundance Channel)
Project Runway (Lifetime)
Top Chef: Just Desserts (Bravo)
Transform Me (VH1)

 

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE

“Constance McMillen,” The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)
“Neil Patrick Harris,” The Talk (CBS)
“Rebuilding Home After Tragedy: The Seth Walsh Story,” The Nate Berkus Show (syndicated)
“Ricky Martin Coming Out as a Gay Man and a New Dad,” The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)
“Transgender Kids: Too Young to Decide?,” The Dr. Oz Show (syndicated)

 

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
“Gay Teen Suicides,” Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
“Katie Miller: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Outside the Lines (ESPN)
“Olson and Boies on Same-Sex Marriage,” Bill Moyers Journal (PBS)
“Transitions,” Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

 

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT

“Don’t Ask…,” CBS Sunday Morning (CBS)
“Fort Worth Speech,” The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (MSNBC)
“Gay Teens Talk Their Truth,” CNN Newsroom (CNN)
“Images of Protest,” ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (ABC)
“Mom, Dad… I’m Coming Out,” Today (NBC)

 

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

“Coming Out, Fitting In” by Rosemary Winters (The Salt Lake Tribune)
“D.C. Gay Couple Caps a Momentous First by Tying the Knot” by Monica Hesse (The Washington Post)
“Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi’s Suicide Spurs Action Across U.S.” by Judy Peet (The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
“A Tragic Love Story” by Steve Friess (L.A. Weekly)
“Worlds Apart” by Lauren Smiley (SF Weekly)

 

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST

Peg Mcentee (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Frank Rich (The New York Times)
Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)
Rev. Byron Williams (The Oakland Tribune)

 

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE

Atlanta Journal Constitution
Denver Post
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
The Salt Lake Tribune

 

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE

“All That’s Left is God” by Michelle Theall (5280 Magazine)
“‘I Was Scared to Sleep’: LGBT Youth Face Violence Behind Bars” by Daniel Redman (The Nation)
“It’s a Shocking Trend: Gay Teens Being Bullied to the Point of Suicide” by Kenneth Miller (Ladies’ Home Journal)
“Just Another Girl (Who Used to be a Boy)” by Genevieve Field (Glamour)
“What Happens When You Find the One…And He’s Nothing — Nothing – Like You Expected?” by Allison Cooper (O, The Oprah Magazine)

 

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE

The Advocate/Out
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Entertainment Weekly
People
US Weekly

 

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

“The Camera in the Closet: Gay Service Members Speak Out to ABC News About Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by Mary Kathryn Burke (ABCNews.com)
“‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Hurts African-American Women the Most” by Lynette Holloway (TheRoot.com)
“Ice Cracks Beneath Weir’s Critics” by LZ Granderson (ESPN.com)
“View From Washington” (series) by Kerry Eleveld (Advocate.com)
“Wrestler Hudson Taylor a Champion for Gay Rights” by Jim Buzinski (Outsports.com)

 

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA

“Bridal Bliss: Aisha and Danielle” by Bobbi Misick (Essence.com)
“Censoring Wojnarowicz” (IntheLifetv.org)
“A Gay Family Album” (Newsweek.com)
“Kicked Out But Ready to Go Back” by Jon Groat  (Newsweek.com)

 

OUTSTANDING BLOG

The Bilerico Project (.bilerico.com)
Blabbeando (blabbeando.blogspot.com)
Joe. My. God. (joemygod.blogspot.com)
Pam’s House Blend (www.pamshouseblend.com)
Rod 2.0 (rodonline.typepad.com)

 

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights (Secretly Canadian)
Big Freedia, Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1 (Big Freedia Records)
Chely Wright, Lifted Off the Ground (Vanguard Records)
Kele Okereke, The Boxer (Glassnote Records)
Scissor Sisters, Night Work (Downtown Records)

 

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, by Scott Allie, Brad Meltzer, Joss Whedon (Dark Horse Comics)
Fogtown, by Andersen Gabrych (Vertigo/DC Comics)
Veronica, by Dan Parent (Archie Comics)
X-Factor, by Peter David (Marvel Comics)
Young Avengers: Children’s Crusade, by Allan Heinberg (Marvel)

 

OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER

Dr. Cerberus, by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa
Haram Iran, by Jay Paul Deratany
Revolver, by Chris Phillips
Something Happened, by L. Trey Wilson
The Twentieth-Century Way, by Tom Jacobson

 

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER – BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY

In the Wake, by Lisa Kron
The Kid, book by Michael Zam, lyrics by Jack Lechner, music by Andy Monroe 
Passion Play, by Sarah Ruhl 
The Pride, by Alexi Kaye Campbell 
Secrets of the Trade, by Jonathan Tolins 

 

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER – OFF-OFF BROADWAY

Lay of the Land, by Tim Miller 
Let Them Eat Cake, by Holly Hughes, Megan Carney and Moe Angelos 
This One Girl’s Story, book by Bil Wright, music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney 
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking from the Diaphragm, by Vaginal Davis
When Last We Flew, by Harrison David Rivers