18th GLAAD Media Awards explained
18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (2007) were presented at four separate ceremonies: March 26 in New York City; April 14 in Los Angeles; April 28 in San Francisco; and May 10 in Miami. The awards were presented to honor "fair, accurate and inclusive" representations of gay individuals in the media.
Special recognition
- Excellence in Media Award: Patti LaBelle
- Vito Russo Award: Tom Ford
- Vanguard Award: Jennifer Aniston
- Stephen F. Kolzak Award: Martina Navratilova
- Visibilidad Award: Jaime Bayly
- Davidson/Valentini Award: Robert Gant
- Pioneer Award: Kate Clinton
- Pioneer Award: Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin
- Special Recognition: The Colbert Report
Award Nominees
(winners are bolded)[1] [2] [3] [4]
Film
- OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
- OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
Television
- OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
- OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
- OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular gay character)
- OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
- OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
- OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
- OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
- OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE
- "Hate Crimes" - The Tyra Banks Show
- "The Murder of a Boy Named Gwen" - The Montel Williams Show
- "Transgender: A Struggle for Acceptance" - The Montel Williams Show
- "Transsexuals" - The Tyra Banks Show
- "Wives Confess They are Gay" - The Oprah Winfrey Show
- OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE
- OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWS SEGMENT
- "The Equality Ride" - MTV News: The Amazing Break (MTV)
- "Military Expulsion" - Good Morning America Weekend (ABC)
- "Same-Sex Marriage" - Live From… (CNN)
- "Secret Love: Gay Life in the Middle East" - Inside the Middle East (CNN)
- "Transgender Teen" - Paula Zahn Now (CNN)
Print
- OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
- "Even Deep in Dixie, Gays Sense Inexorable Shift Toward Acceptance" by David Crary (Associated Press)
- "Fathers in the Making" by Kevin Sack (Los Angeles Times)
- "Gay Teens Are Using the System" by Seema Mehta (Los Angeles Times)
- "Hill Republicans Air Out the Closet" by Jose Antonio Vargas (The Washington Post)
- "Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn't Clear" by Patricia Leigh Brown (The New York Times)
- OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
- OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
- OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
- "I am Woman" by D. Cookie Fields as told to Michelle Burford (Essence)
- "The Out Crowd" by Jason Newman (Urb)
- "The Pressure to Cover" by Kenji Yoshino (The New York Times Magazine)
- "Queer Inc." by Marc Gunther (Fortune)
- "What if it's (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?" by Elizabeth Weil (The New York Times Magazine)
- OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
- OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
- "BV Q&A with Julian Bond: Why this Civil Rights Icon Embraces Gay Rights" by Angela Bronner (BlackVoices.aol.com)
- "The Glass Closet" by Alex Koppelman (Salon.com)
- "Homosexual and 'Passionate About Islam'" by Jennifer Carlile (MSNBC.com)
- "How Many Strikes?" by Erin Marie Daly (IntheFray.com)
- "Is Fear the Best Way to Fight AIDS?" by Kai Wright (TheNation.com)
- OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA
- "AIDS at 25: A Multimedia Perspective" (Newsweek.com)
- "Being a Gay Black Man" by Ben de la Cruz, Pierre Kattar, and Sholnn Z. Freeman (WashingtonPost.com)
- "Mookey's Story" by Carolyn Goossen, Daffodil Altan, and Min Lee (NewAmericaMedia.org)
- OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
- OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING – ELECTRONIC
- "Bad Weather" - Orbitz
- "Ejection" - United Church of Christ
- "Gangster of Love" - Axe Clix
- "Living Room" - IKEA
- OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING – PRINT
Music & Theater
- OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
- OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER
- Bluebonnet Court, by Zsa Zsa Gershick
- Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley
- A Man of No Importance, book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
- Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, by Matthew Bourne, music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Play it Cool, book by Larry Dean Harris, music by Phillip Swann, lyrics by Mark Winkler
- OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF–BROADWAY
- OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF–OFF BROADWAY
- 33 to Nothing by Grant James Varjas
- Candy and Dorothy by David Johnston
- Dina Martina: Sedentary Lady by Grady West
- Kiss and Cry by Tom Rowan
- Sinner by Ben Payne
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.glaad.org/media/release_detail.php?id=3994 List of Winners: 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Marriott Marquis in New York
- http://www.glaad.org/media/release_detail.php?id=3996 18TH ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN LOS ANGELES
- http://www.glaad.org/media/release_detail.php?id=4005 List of Winners: 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Presented in Los Angeles
- http://www.glaad.org/media/release_detail.php?id=4009 Award Recipients: 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, Westin St. Francis in San Francisco