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01.27.2009 9:25am EST
The awards recognize fair and inclusive portrayals of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and issues affecting them.
“How our lives are portrayed in the media doesn’t make a bit of difference, it makes all the difference,” said GLAAD president Neil G. Giuliano.
The organization announced its 185 nominees in 41 categories Tuesday.
For the second year, AfterElton.com, 365gay’s brother site, has been recognized with the nomination of James Hillis’s investigative report, Gays in Primetime (here’s Part II). Last year James was nominated (and won) with his piece Gay Newsmen: A Clearer Picture.
CBS earned four nominations and NBC nabbed two. Nominees for feature film in wide release include “Brideshead Revisited,” “Milk,” “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” “RocknRolla” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
“The nominees this year prove that the stories of LGBT Americans are interesting, compelling and will touch not only LGBT audiences, but broader audiences as well,” Giuliano said.
Special prizes will be presented to Tyra Banks and Suze Orman. Banks will receive the Excellence in Media award, and Orman will receive the Vito Russo award.
The GLAAD Media Awards – which also recognize magazine and newspaper content, theater performances, advertising and Spanish programming – will be presented at three separate ceremonies: in New York on March 28, in Los Angeles on April 19 and in San Francisco on May 9.
For a complete list of the nominees as well as a video of the announcement, head on over to GLAAD’s website.
Unfortunately the gay guy in ugly Betty is the ’steriotype gay guy’.I am gay and I find him very shallow, ignorant, self absorbed. Ugly Betty doesn’t do the gay community any justice
I’m going to disagree; Ugly Betty is a comedy containing over-the-top portrayals of every type, from Bio-otch to womanizers. Mark may be uber-nelly but his boyfriend, Cliff, for several espisodes was frumpy but intelligent and didn’t put up with Mark’s shallow vanity. And then there is Justin who is also smart, caring, ambitious and hard-working.
This is a show centered around the fashion industry. There are more ’stereotypes’ on Project Runway than Ugly Betty. No one complains about that. In my gay-stimation U.B. has captured it quite accurately.
I am not familiar with most of the shows and films up for GLAAD awards, but I have seen “Milk” and it i definitely deserving of any awards it receives. GLAAD does great work has the only comprehensive media guide for writing about queer people I have ever seen.
I have seen “Ugly Betty” a few times and the only time I every time I have seen queer people on there, they are acting in a pretty stereotypical manner. I would like to see what portrayal this show was nominated for.
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