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)

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