18th GLAAD Media Awards

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
  • Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
  • The Night Listener (Miramax Films)
  • Running With Scissors (TriStar Pictures)
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Columbia Pictures)
  • V for Vendetta (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
  • The History Boys (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
  • Imagine Me & You (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
  • Quinceañera (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • Shortbus (THINKFilm)
  • Summer Storm (Regent Releasing)

Television

• OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
  • Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
  • The L Word (Showtime)
  • Hex (BBC America)
  • The Sopranos (HBO)
  • South of Nowhere (The N)
• OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
  • Desperate Housewives (ABC)
  • The Office (NBC)
  • So NoTORIous (VH1)
  • Ugly Betty (ABC)
• OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular gay character)
  • "Blind Date" - 30 Rock (NBC)
  • "Forever Blue" - Cold Case (CBS)
  • "Lincoln Lover" - American Dad! (Fox)
  • "Single Stamina" - How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
  • "Where the Boys Are" - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
• OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
  • A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (Lifetime)
  • Wedding Wars (A&E)
• OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
  • All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (HBO)
  • Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer (HBO)
  • My Mums Used to be Men (BBC America)
  • One Punk Under God (Sundance Channel)
  • This Film is Not Yet Rated (IFC Films)
• OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
  • The Amazing Race 10 (CBS)
  • Big Brother: All-Stars (CBS)
  • Project Runway (Bravo)
  • Queer Eye (Bravo)
  • Work Out (Bravo)
• OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
  • All My Children (ABC)
  • As the World Turns (CBS)
  • General Hospital (ABC)
  • Passions (NBC)
• 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
  • "Forbidden Love" - Nightline (ABC)
  • "Lesbians in the Ministry" - To the Contrary (PBS)
  • "Transgender People" - The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch (CNBC)
  • "Under the Rainbow" - NOW (PBS)
  • "Will Gay Debate Tear Church Apart?" - Larry King Live (CNN)
• 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
  • Alfred Doblin (Herald News, Bergen, NJ)
  • Dana Milbank (The Washington Post)
  • Deb Price (The Detroit News)
  • Frank Rich (The New York Times)
  • Dan Savage (The New York Times)
• OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
  • The Boston Globe
  • The Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia)
  • The Honolulu Advertiser
  • Los Angeles Times
  • USA Today
• 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
  • AsianWeek
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • CosmoGIRL!
  • Details
  • People
• 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
  • 52 by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid (DC Comics)
  • American Virgin by Steven T. Seagle (Vertigo/DC Comics)
  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Manhunter by Marc Andreyko (DC Comics)
  • Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING – ELECTRONIC
  • "Bad Weather" - Orbitz
  • "Ejection" - United Church of Christ
  • "Gangster of Love" - Axe Clix
  • "Living Room" - IKEA
• OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING – PRINT
  • "Bear" - Marc Jacobs
  • "Gay by God" - Rehoboth Temple Christ Conscious Church
  • "Jack/Jack" - Paris Las Vegas
  • "Madame President" - Svedka Vodka
  • "Suits" - Paris Las Vegas

Music & Theater

• OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
  • The Ditty Bops, Moon Over the Freeway
  • Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds
  • Peaches, Impeach My Bush
  • Pet Shop Boys, Fundamental
  • Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah
• 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
  • 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Kate Moira Ryan with Judy Gold
  • The History Boys by Alan Bennett
  • The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane
  • Measure for Pleasure by David Grimm
  • [title of show] by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell
• 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

• 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards official site
• Complete list of nominees
• Logo - 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards

References

1. List of Winners: 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Marriott Marquis in New York Retrieved on November 9, 2008
2. 18TH ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN LOS ANGELES Retrieved on November 9, 2008
3. List of Winners: 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Presented in Los Angeles Retrieved on November 9, 2008
4. Award Recipients: 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, Westin St. Francis in San Francisco Retrieved on November 9, 2008