The GLAAD Media Awards "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives."
Among the nominees: Academy Award nominees "Carol" and "The Danish Girl"; Golden Globe nominee "Grandma"; Film Independent Spirit Award nominees "Appropriate Behavior" and "Tangerine"; FOX’s hit drama "Empire" and Netflix’s "Sense8," "Master of None," "Orange Is the New Black" and "Grace and Frankie"; Amazon’s "Transparent"; HBO's "Bessie"; and more.
For the first time in nearly a decade, the GLAAD Media Awards will be televised exclusively on Logo in a one-hour special premiering in April.
Nominations in the English-language categories follow:
OUTSTANDING FILM - WIDE RELEASE
Carol (The Weinstein Company) The Danish Girl (Focus Features)
Dope (Open Road Films)
Freeheld (Lionsgate)
Grandma (Sony Pictures Classics)
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Arrow (The CW)
Black Sails (Starz)
Empire (FOX)
The Fosters (ABC Family)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)
Nashville (ABC)
Orphan Black (BBC America)
Sense8 (Netflix)
Shameless (Showtime)
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE
(in a series without a regular LGBT character)
"Gender" The Carmichael Show (NBC)
"Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell" Black-ish (ABC)
"The Prince of Nucleotides" Royal Pains (USA Network)
"Rock-a-Bye-Baby" NCIS New Orleans (CBS)
"We Build, We Fight" NCIS (CBS)
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
Kumu Hina (PBS)
Limited Partnership (PBS)
Mala Mala (Strand Releasing)
Tab Hunter Confidential (The Film Collaborative)
Tig (Netflix)
OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
The Bold and The Beautiful (CBS)
OUTSTANDING FILM - LIMITED RELEASE
52 Tuesdays (Kino Lorber)
Appropriate Behavior (Gravitas Ventures)
Boy Meets Girl (Wolfe Video)
Drunktown's Finest (Nehst Studios)
Tangerine (Magnolia Pictures)
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX)
Faking It (MTV)
Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
Looking (HBO)
Master of None (Netflix)
Modern Family (ABC)
Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
Please Like Me (Pivot)
Transparent (Amazon Instant Video)
Vicious (PBS)
OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Banana (Logo)
Bessie (HBO)
Cucumber (Logo)
OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
I Am Cait (E!)
I Am Jazz (TLC)
New Girls on the Block (Discovery Life)
The Prancing Elites Project (Oxygen)
Transcendent (Fuse)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
Brandi Carlile, The Firewatcher's Daughter (ATO Records)
Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz(Smiley Miley, Inc.)
Adam Lambert, The Original High (Warner Bros. Records)
Le1f, Riot Boi (XL Recordings/Terrible Records)
Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood (Capitol Records)
OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
Angela: Queen of Hel, written by Marguerite Bennett (Marvel Comics)
Harley Quinn, written by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti (DC Comics)
Lumberjanes, written by Noelle Stevenson, Shanonn Watters, Kat Leyh (BOOM! Studios)
Midnighter, written by Steve Orlando (DC Comics)
The Wicked + Divine, written by Kieron Gillen (Image Comics)
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE
"Bruce Jenner: The Interview" 20/20 (ABC)
"The Courage Game" SportsCenter (ESPN)
"Dividing The United Methodist Church" To The Contrary(PBS)
"Showdown in Indiana: The Battle Over Religious Rights"CNN Special Report (CNN)
True Life: I'm Genderqueer (MTV)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"Cold Case: The Murders of Cosby and Jackson" by Dianna Wray (Houston Press)
"Gay and Transgender Catholics Urge Pope Francis to Take a Stand" by Laurie Goodstein (The New York Times)
"Meet Dr. Levine, The State's Top Doc" by Michael A. Fuoco (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
"Navy's First Openly Gay SEAL Builds His Life Anew" by David Zucchino (Los Angeles Times)
"Transgender Today" [series] (The New York Times)
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Advocate
Cosmopolitan
Seventeen
Time
Variety
OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE
"Alison Bechdel" Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
"Aydian Dowling" The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)
"Janet Mock" Super Soul Sunday (OWN)
"Jazz Jennings" The Meredith Vieira Show (syndicated)
"Transgender Rights" Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT
"Interview with Jim Obergefell" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
"Mary Bonauto on Her SCOTUS Victory"The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
"Nicholas Coppola: Gay & Catholic" America Tonight (Al Jazeera America)
"Pushing for Equality for Transgender People" Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC)
"Toddler Plays Role in Marriage Equality Case"MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts (MSNBC)
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
"Behind Brazil's Gay Pride Parades, a Struggle with Homophobic Violence" by Oscar Lopez (Newsweek)
"The First Black Trans Model Had Her Face on a Box of Clairol" by Jada Yuan and Aaron Wong (New York)
"Gus Kenworthy's Next Bold Move" by Alyssa Roenigk (ESPN The Magazine)
"Just Your Average (Transgender) Teen" by Andrea Stanley (Seventeen)
"Pride & Prejudice" by Linda Villarosa (Essence Magazine)
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
"The Faces of Transgender Teen America" by David Yi (Mashable.com)
"How the Killing of a Trans Filipina Woman Ignited an International Incident" by Meredith Talusan (Vice.com)
"The Ky Peterson Saga" [series] by Mitch Kellaway and Sunnivie Brydum (Advocate.com)
"This Is What It’s Like To Be An LGBT Syrian Fleeing For Your Life" by J. Lester Feder (Buzzfeed.com)
"This Tiny Clinic is Fighting for Trans Patients Illegally Denied Medical Care" by Jennifer Swann (TakePart.com)
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM –MULTIMEDIA
"Freed Trans Woman Ashley Diamond On Life Behind Bars In Men's Prison" HuffPost Live (HuffingtonPost.com)
"Holler if You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church" by Clay Cane (BET.com)
"Queerness On The Front Lines Of #BlackLivesMatter" MSNBC Originals (MSNBC.com)
"Stopping HIV? The Truvada Revolution" Vice Reports (Vice.com)
"Transgender, at War and in Love" by Fiona Dawson (NewYorkTimes.com)
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Beautiful As I Want To Be (Logotv.com)
This is Me (Amazon Instant Video)
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