GLAAD Nominations

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have listed its nominations in pretty much every category including TV, Film, Music, Theatre, Journalism, and more. Here are the nominations:



FILM - WIDE RELEASE
"Brideshead Revisited"
"Milk"
"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"
"RocknRolla"
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

FILM - LIMITED RELEASE
"The Edge of Heaven"
"Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom"
"Save Me"
"Shelter"
"XXY"

DRAMA SERIES
"Brothers & Sisters"
"The L Word"
"South of Nowhere"
"Torchwood"
"True Blood"

COMEDY SERIES
"Desperate Housewives
"Greek
"Reaper
"Skins
"Ugly Betty"

INDIVIDUAL EPISODE
(in a series without a regular LGBT character)

"Ghostfacers" - "Supernatural"
"My Maharishi is Bigger than Your Maharishi" - "Life on Mars"
"Slam" - "Ghost Whisperer"
"Tandem Repeats" ER
"Unidentified Funk" - "The New Adventures of Old Christine"

TELEVISION MOVIE
"Affinity"
"East Side Story"
"Ice Blues: A Donald Strachey Mystery"
"Oh Happy Day"
"On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery"

DOCUMENTARY
"Chris & Don: A Love Story"
"Freeheld"
"A Jihad for Love"
"Saving Marriage"
"Sex Change Hospital"

REALITY PROGRAM
"America's Next Top Model"
"I Want to Work for Diddy"
"Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List"
"Shirts & Skins"
"Transamerican Love Story"

DAILY DRAMA
"All My Children"
"As the World Turns"

TALK SHOW EPISODE
"Don't Ruin My Gay Wedding" - "The Tyra Banks Show"
"Ellen & Portia's Wedding Day" - "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"
"Gays in the Ghetto" - "The Tyra Banks Show"
"The Pregnant Man" - "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
"Transgender Triumphs" - "The Tyra Banks Show"

TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE
"Becoming" (multi-part series) Channel 3 News
"Born in the Wrong Body: All in the Family"
"Funding the Marriage War" - "In the Life"
"George Takei and Brad Altman" (multi-part series) The Early Show
"The Whispers" Outside the Lines

TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT
"Bishop in the Eye of the Storm" - "Today"
"Gay in Cuba" - "The Situation Room"
"Special Comment: Prop 8" - "Countdown with Keith Olbermann"
"Rick Warren: Change to Believe In?" - "The Rachel Maddow Show"
"Taking to the Streets" - "Good Morning America Weekend"

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"Gay Marriage Ruling Ended Long Journey Of Soul" by Alaine Griffin
"Morehouse College Faces its Own Bias – Against Gays" by Richard Fausset
"A New Wave of Gay Seminarians Prepares to Take the Pulpit" by Bradley Campbell
"Owning His Gay Identity – at 15 Years Old" by Theresa Vargas
"Special Report: In Transition" by Karen Lovett and Ashley Smith

NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Alfred Doblin (The Record [Bergen, N.J.])
Michael Mayo (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Deb Price (The Detroit News)
Rebecca Walsh (Salt Lake Tribune)

NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
The Denver Post
The Des Moines Register
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
The Washington Post

MAGAZINE ARTICLE
"Becoming a Black Man" by Daisy Hernández (ColorLines)
"Death on Terminal Island" by Ben Ehrenreich (Los Angeles)
"Let God Love Gene Robinson" by Andrew Corsello (GQ)
"Our Mutual Joy" by Lisa Miller (Newsweek)
"Second Nature" by Maximillian Potter (5280)

MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Advocate
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Entertainment Weekly
Newsweek
People

DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Do Kill" by Lennox Samuels (Newsweek.com)
"Gay Athletes are Making Their Mark" by LZ Granderson (ESPN.com)
"Gay in Wasilla" by Julie Bolcer (Advocate.com)
"Gays in Primetime" by James Hillis (AfterElton.com)
"Invisible and Overlooked" by Jessica Bennett (Newsweek.com)

DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA
"Excluded Gay Bishop Reacts" by Mary Jordan (WashingtonPost.com)
"Gay Seniors" (multi-part series) by Jessica Bennet, Jennifer Molina and Carl Sullivan (Newsweek.com)
"Is Gay the New Black?" by Jessica Bennet and Jennifer Molina (Newsweek.com)

MUSIC ARTIST
Jay Brannan, "goddamed"
Hercules & Love Affair, "Hercules & Love Affair"
k.d. lang, "Watershed"
The Magnetic Fields, "Distortion"
Sam Sparro, "Sam Sparro"

COMIC BOOK
"The Alcoholic" by Jonathan Ames
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" by Drew Goddard, Jeph Loeb and Joss Whedon
"Final Crisis: Revelations" by Greg Rucka
"Secret Six" by Gail Simone
"Young Avengers" Presents by Ed Brubaker, Brian Reed, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Paul Cornell, Kevin
"Grevioux and Matt Fraction"

ADVERTISING - ELECTRONIC
"I Don't Judge" IKEA
"Logo Unbuttoned" Levi's
"Market" Chemistry.com
"We All Walk In Different Shoes – Nina Poon" Kenneth Cole
"Rugby Drinking Party" Jawbone

ADVERTISING - PRINT
"First Comes Love. Then Comes Marriage." Macy's
"Home for the Holidays" Swanson
"Rings" Paris Las Vegas
"We All Walk In Different Shoes – Nina Poon & Robert Jason" Kenneth Cole
"Will You Marry Me?" Absolut Vodka

LOS ANGELES THEATER
"As Much As You Can" by Paul Oakley Stovall
"Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" by Bert V. Royal
"He Asked for It" by Erik Patterson
"The Little Dog Laughed" by Douglas Carter Beane
"Secrets of the Trade" by Jonathan Tolins

NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY
"Billy Elliot: The Musical" book and lyrics by Lee Hall, music by Elton John
"Body Awareness" by Annie Baker
"Prayer for My Enemy" by Craig Lucas
"Road Show" book by John Weidman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
"Wig Out!" by Tarell Alvin McCraney

NEW YORK THEATER: OFF-OFF BROADWAY
"Arias with a Twist" by Joey Arias and Basil Twist
"The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac" by Taylor Mac
"Dina Martina: Off the Charts!" by Grady West
"Lustre, a Midwinter Trans-Fest" by Justin Bond
"Play it Cool" book by Martin Casella and Larry Dean Harris, music by Phillip Swann, lyrics by Mark Winkler

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
"The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later - The Lasting Legacy of Matthew Shepard" (Sirius XM Radio)

EXCELLENCE IN MEDIA AWARD
Tyra Banks

VITO RUSSO AWARD
Suze Orman

Hillary's Replacement

After Caroline Kennedy mysteriously dropped out of the race to become Hillary Clinton's filler (since she is now MADAME SECRETARY) the state of New York has appointed her replacement today. U.S. senator Kirsten Gillibrand. I dont know much about her yet - but I do know she is very gay friendly. She told the states LGBT rights leaders that she "supports same-sex marriage, and full marriage rights for everyone American." - This is a change, a few years ago she only supported civil unions. The gay rights leaders have released this statement after meeting with the new Senator:

“After talking to Kirsten Gillibrand, I am very happy to say that New York is poised to have a U.S. Senator who supports marriage equality for same-sex couples. She also supports the full repeal of the federal DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) law, repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) and passage of legislation outlawing discrimination against transgender people. While we had a productive discussion about a whole range of LGBT concerns, I was particularly happy to hear where she stands on these issues.”

GOOD FOR HER
stick to it!

Kanye west is BI .. so he says

Kanye West just dropped some bombshells in W magazine interview. I will just let his quotes speak for themselves:

"I would definately love to do porn. I would pose naked in a heartbeat. And take it to the next level and do full on porn. I know people will find that as another thing to hate me on, but fuck it. I'm open to doing porn. Hell, I'll even do bisexual scenes - myself, another man and a woman. Hell yeah I would get down with that in a big way. I know people will find that as some weird shit, but I am who I am. I would get down with that guy and that girl. Call me up. Im not gonna sit in one place for all my life. I am expanding. I am an icon."

Jim's gay movie causing a stir

Sundance has begun and the film getting the most buzz is "I love You Phillip Morris" starring Jim Carrey and Ean McGregor as the gay romantic leads. It was written oddly enough by the writer of Bad Santa (a funny movie for sure, but a shocking next project). It played in the largest theatre for the festival, and it was packed. The responce afterwards was quite a mix. Some theatre-goers were downright pissed saying that the movie was nothing but stereotypes and seemed the 2 actors did the role just to get awards attention. However other groups praised the film and called it brave and daring. In a post-screening Question and Answer session an audience member stood up and asked : "What are the people involved in this movie going to do to support the LGBT community?" Jim Carrey answered: "What am I going to do to for the gay community? I am going to love and tolerate them."

Interesting answer.

The FIERCE family

No thats not our president and his wife, its RUPAUL!
WONDERFUL! You go girl!

New Gay Daddies

This is the cutest story of the day! The cute gay penguins in the China zoo have been stealing eggs from "straight" penguin mothers for months now. Zoo keepers locked up the 2 homo penguins so that the eggs would be able to hatch with their mothers. However angry zoo visitors to the Polar Land zoo complained it wasn't fair and that the happy penguins should be allowed to become surrogate fathers. So the zoo agreed, and provided the penguins two eggs laid by an inexperienced first time mother penguin. The zoo keeper said the following:

"They've turned out to be the best parents in the whole zoo. We will try to arrange for them to become real parents themselves with artificial insemination."

Isn't that wonderful. Leads me to think .. if penguins can do it .....

God bless Connecticut

Today the first gay marriage in the state of Connecticut was performed. The state becomes the 3rd state to allow gay marriage, and voters once again backed it up at the polling places this election season, saying they did not want to ammend the constitution to block it - so equality is here to stay in Connecticut. Good job!

PLEASE READ

Mellisa Etheridge just blogged this on her official website.
I couldn't have put it any better. I love this woman.

"Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.

Okay, cool I don't mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We're gay! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that's not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS workers and gym teachers and such, they won't have to pay their taxes either.

Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.

…Really?

When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation "eliminates the right" and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, "Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today" and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say "I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me"? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California?

I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

I know when I grew up gay was a bad word. Homo, lezzie, faggot, dyke. Ignorance and fear ruled the day. There were so many "thems" back then. The blacks, the poor ... you know, "them". Then there was the immigrants. "Them.” Now the them is me.

I tell myself to take a breath, okay take another one, one of the thems made it to the top. Obama has been elected president. This crazy fearful insanity will end soon. This great state and this great country of ours will finally come to the understanding that there is no "them". We are one. We are united. What you do to someone else you do to yourself. That "judge not, lest ye yourself be judged" are truthful words and not Christian rhetoric.

Today the gay citizenry of this state will pick themselves up and dust themselves off and do what we have been doing for years. We will get back into it. We love this state, we love this country and we are not going to leave it. Even though we could be married in Mass. or Conn, Canada, Holland, Spain and a handful of other countries, this is our home. This is where we work and play and raise our families. We will not rest until we have the full rights of any other citizen. It is that simple, no fearful vote will ever stop us, that is not the American way.

Come to think of it, I should get a federal tax break too..."

~ Melissa Etheridge

NO on 8!!

ALL CALIFORNIANS - you MUST vote NO on prop 8.

learn more.
There is so much hatred in this world - it needs to end.

You go Governor

In a speech given today California governor and terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger urged voters to vote NO of proposition 8 (the horrific proposition which will ban gay marriage in California along with gay rights). If you go against him you know what he does:


VOTE NO ON PROP 8!!!
VOTE NO ON PROP 8!!!
VOTE NO ON PROP 8!!!

Ms. Gay gives

The better Oprah, Ellen Degeneras, has donated 100,000$ to the No on Proposition 8 fund. She has purchased $100,000 of television air time for the No on 8 campaign to run a message she taped urging California voters to defeat Proposition 8, which would eliminate same-sex marriage in California. And I say - good for her!

Give money to Gay

Steve Bing, a film producer, has donated $500,000 to No on proposition 8. The straight rich dude has just saved this propositions ass. His donation will be matched today as well. And all news is good news - last I heard No on 8 on was behind in polls. VOTE NO! (I wanna get married one day dammit)

There is also a fund raiser next week with performances by Mellisa Etheridge, Elton John, Mary J. Blidge, Kathy Griffin, and charity work from Sharon Stone.

NO on 8

To all those voting in California elections -- PLEASE VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 8.
This proposition, among other things, will legal ban gay marriage allowing none to take place in California (which just passed a law allowing them). It will also strip gay couples from their marital rights including wealth sharing, and even hospital visitation. It is of the utmost importance to VOTE NO on 8.

How to Burn in Hell

It appears not everyone is in on Katy Perry's summer smash "I Kissed a Girl". The song sat at #1 for 6 weeks in a row! But a church in Ohio posted a huge billboard on their front lawn. It read: I KISSED A GIRL .. AND THEN I WENT TO HELL.
oh those sweet sweet Christians.

Married!

The cutest lesbians in town Ellen Degeneras and Portia De Rossi were married this weekend. How beautiful do they both look? Wow! Best of luck to them both.

Haters!

If youre gay, bi, trans, or curio (or you are supportive of any of those groups) then you have no choice for a presidential candidate who will stand up 100% for gay rights. This is sad, and discouraging. Both candidates stood in a public forum with Pastor Rick Warren on the 16th of August, in front of a crowd of christian-evangelicals (aka crazies). Obama agreed to join McCain saying he had nothing to hide, nor anything that he feels "undermines" their beliefs. So the event turned into a gay-hate seminar.

When the candidates were asked to define marriage, this is what followed:
McCain: "Union. A union between one man and one woman only. Plain and simple, that is my definition of marriage. I strongly support preserving the unique status of marriage between a man and a woman."
Obama: "I believe marriage is a union between a man and a woman. For me, as a Christian - God is also involved in the equation. It's a sacred union."

- can you say: trying to win votes Obama? Of course at the Christian crowd he puts God into it. And hides the hints that he "says" he supports gay rights -- guess not enough to admit it in front of this crowd.

When will these candidates - and the damn voters - realize there is much more important issues to govern than love between 2 people. What about economy? War? The deficit? Global warming? NAH - lets just spend all our time on the gays.

Gays love having Babies!

Just like Clay Aiken before him, Ricky Martin proved one thing yesterday: gays love having babies!! The babies were had by a surrogate mother to which Martin was a sperm donor. Now Ricky Martin has never said he was gay - but America and the rest of the world has, including myself. And I love gay men with kids! So hooray to him!

Finally

Finally, Kanye West has come out with a rant on his blog that I can get behind. He denounces homophobia and anti-gay slurs. Good for you Kanye. And thanks.

"Open your fucking minds. Open your minds. Be accepting of different people and let people be who they are. You know how many people came to me calling me gay cause I wear my jeans the fresh way? Or because I said hey, dude, how you gonna say 'fag' right in front of a gay dude's face and act like that's ok. That shit is disrespectful. Coming from Chicago, where if you saw somebody that was gay you were supppoed to stay ten feet away. It should be time to break out of the intuitions that I was sayin', the steretypes, or the fear, the backlash that I would get if you don't believe in what I believe in, acceptin' people for who they are…they're very talented and if they do something special in the world and they're discriminated. I've flown across the world y'all, and I've come back here to tell you — open your minds and live a happier life…"

Good for Him

Looks like he either has changed his tune or is holding up good graces, either way Isiah Washington did a good thing today! Once getting in trouble and fired from Greys Anatomy for calling a co-star a faggot, Isiah Washington just made a huge donation to the Equality California fund (which is working to stop the anti-gay marriage amendment on the November ballot. Good for him!

gay gay gay -- youre gay

Notoriously anti-gay Republican Alabama attorney General Troy King was just outed in a BIG way. The homophobe who has made comments including: "I will oppose any bill involving gay marriage, gay laws, or gay rights" along with being one of the first people to condone such speech and "if we allow gays to get married, whats next - people marrying their goats?" Well ... too bad for him that his wife found him having sex with his 19 year old male campaign assistant. Oops. I love republican hypocrite's. If any politician from the south is extremely anti gay - its about a 99% chance they have having sex with men or boys. Loves it. Now get him out of office.