GLAAD Media Award Winners 2018

GLAAD,  The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, announces their annual awards in two parts each year. Earlier this month they handed out a slew of awards in Los Angeles with Britney Spears and Jim Parsons honored and this weekend they finished out in New York horing Ava DuVernay and Samira Wiley (though we haven't yet seen videos of the New York ceremony). Melissa Etheridge and Adam Lambert performed a new arrangement of Etheridge's classic hit "I'm the Only One" to mark the 25th anniversary of her quadruple platinum "Yes, I Am" album which was a watershed moment in LGBT visibility in rock and roll. 25 years... wow. Remember Juliette Lewis giving one her best performances ever in the video to "Come to My Window"? The latter song also won Melissa Etheridge her final Grammy Award though she's been nominated several times since.  

But back to the now or the recent now. This is probably the last time you'll hear about awards for Call Me By Your Name as the world moves on to whatever 2018 and 2019 have in store. A complete list of the GLAAD awards is after the jump. And, because we like to go the extra mile for you, we've included links to anything we could find in the journalism realm that won an award so you can read or watch the winning articles or docs or fiction... 

SPECIAL AWARDS

Excellence in Media Award:
Ava DuVernay

Vanguard Award:
Britney Spears

Stephen F Kozak Award:
Jim Parsons

Vito Russo Award:
Samira Wiley

TV AWARDS

Outstanding Drama Series:
"This is Us" (NBC)

Outstanding Comedy Series:
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (Fox)

Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series:
“When We Rise” (ABC)

Outstanding Daily Drama:
“The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)

Outstanding Kids & Family Programming winner:
“Andi Mack” (Disney Channel)

Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBTQ character):
“Thanksgiving” “Master of None” (Netflix)

FILM AWARDS

Outstanding Film – Wide Release:
“Call Me By Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics) [accepted by screenwriter James Ivory and producer Peter Spears]

Outstanding Film – Limited Release:
“A Fantastic Woman” (Sony Pictures Classics)

VARIOUS AWARDS

Outstanding Comic Book:
“Black Panther: World of Wakanda” (Marvel Comics)

Outstanding Music Artist:
Halsey, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom

Special Recognition Award: 
“Smile” by Jay-Z featuring Gloria Carter, 4:44 [accepted by Ms. Gloria Carter]

DOCUMENTARIES AND TV AND DIGITAL JOURNALISM

Outstanding Documentary: 
“Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric” (National Geographic)

Outstanding Talk Show Episode:
“Australian Marriage Equality,” “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO)

Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine:
“The Pulse of Orlando: Terror at the Nightclub,” “Anderson Cooper 360” (CNN)

Outstanding TV Journalism Segment:
“Murders Raise Alarm for Transgender Community,” “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” (NBC)

Outstanding Newspaper Article:
“The Silent Epidemic: Black Gay Men and HIV” by Gracie Bonds Staples (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Outstanding Magazine Article:
“Forbidden Lives: The Gay Men Who Fled Chechnya’s Purge” by Masha Gessen (The New Yorker)

Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage:
Billboard

Outstanding Digital Journalism Article:
“Why Bisexual Men Are Still Fighting to Convince Us They Exist” by Samantha Allen (Splinter)

Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia:
“’This Is How We Win’: Inside Danica Roem’s Historic Victory” by Diana Tourjée (Broadly.Vice.com)

Outstanding Blog:
TransGriot

Spanish-Language Winners:

Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine:
“Pulse, Huellas de la Masacre.” Docufilms (CNN en Español)

Outstanding TV Journalism Segment:
“Comunidad LGBTQ Vulnerable Bajo Nuevo Gobierno” Perspectiva Nacional (Entravision)

Outstanding Scripted Television:
Las Chicas del Cable (Netflix)

Outstanding Digital Journalism:
"Tres Hemanitos Paras Dos Papas" by Jacqueline Garcia (laopinion.com)

Comments

[DJDeeJay]

Gessen's article really is fantastic. Glad to see it singled out.