GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced today the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards honoring media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.
I’ve been covering these awards for about 20 years now and trust me, there was a time not all that long ago when it was stretch to fill these categories with deserving nominees. Not anymore! So much LGBTQ content these days – even Hallmark movies!
It’s a miracle. Actually, it’s progress. The culture is always way ahead of whatever the heck is going on in DC.
Here are some of the major categories – you can see full list by clicking on the link at the bottom.
Outstanding Film – Wide Release
The Craft: Legacy (Sony Pictures)
Happiest Season (Hulu)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
The Old Guard (Netflix)
The Prom (Netflix)
Outstanding Film – Limited Release
Ammonite (NEON)
And Then We Danced (Music Box Films)
The Boys in the Band (Netflix)
The Half of It (Netflix)
I Carry You With Me (Sony Pictures Classics)
Kajillionaire (Focus Features)
The Life Ahead (Netflix)
Lingua Franca (ARRAY/Netflix)
Monsoon (Strand Releasing)
The True Adventures of Wolfboy (Vertical Entertainment)
Outstanding Documentary
Circus of Books (Netflix)
Disclosure (Netflix)
Equal (HBO Max)
For They Know Not What They Do (First Run Features)
Howard (Disney+)
Mucho Mucho Amor (Netflix)
Scream, Queen: My Nightmare on Elm Street (Virgil FIlms/Shudder)
Visible: Out on Television (Apple TV+)
We Are The Radical Monarchs (PBS POV)
Welcome to Chechnya (HBO)
Outstanding Comedy Series
Big Mouth (Netflix)
Dead to Me (Netflix)
Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (Freeform)
Harley Quinn (HBO Max)
Love, Victor (Hulu)
Saved by the Bell (Peacock)
Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Sex Education (Netflix)
Superstore (NBC)
Twenties (BET)
Outstanding Drama Series
9-1-1: Lone Star (FOX)
Killing Eve (BBC America)
P-Valley (Starz)
Ratched (Netflix)
Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
Supergirl (The CW)
The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
Vida (Starz)
The Wilds (Amazon)
Wynonna Earp (Syfy)
Outstanding TV Movie
Alice Júnior (Netflix)
Bad Education (HBO)
The Christmas House (Hallmark Channel)
The Christmas Setup (Lifetime)
Dashing in December (Paramount Network)
La Leyenda Negra (HBO Latino/HBO Max)
The Thing About Harry (Freeform)
Uncle Frank (Amazon Studios)
Unpregnant (HBO Max)
Your Name Engraved Herein (Netflix)
Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
Dispatches from Elsewhere (AMC)
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix)
Hollywood (Netflix)
I May Destroy You (HBO)
Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)
Outstanding Reality Program
Deaf U (Netflix)
Legendary (HBO Max)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
We’re Here (HBO)
Outstanding Music Artist
Adam Lambert, Velvet (More Is More/Empire)
Brandy Clark, Your Life Is a Record (Warner Records)
Halsey, Manic (Capitol)
Kehlani, It Was Good Until It Wasn’t (Atlantic)
Lady Gaga, Chromatica (Streamline/Interscope)
Miley Cyrus, Plastic Hearts (RCA)
Pabllo Vittar, 111 (BMT/Sony Music Brasil)
Peppermint, A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers (Producer Entertainment Group)
Ricky Martin, Pausa (Sony Latin)
Sam Smith, Love Goes (Capitol)
Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist
Arca, KiCk i (XL)
Chika, Industry Games (Warner Records)
FLETCHER, The (S)ex Tapes (Capitol)
Keiynan Lonsdale, Rainbow Boy (Keiynan Lonsdale)
Kidd Kenn, Child’s Play (Island Records)
Orville Peck, Show Pony (Columbia/Sub Pop)
Phoebe Bridgers, Punisher (Dead Oceans)
Rina Sawayama, Sawayama (Dirty Hit/Avex Trax)
Trixie Mattel, Barbara (Producer Entertainment Group/ATO Records)
Victoria Monét, Jaguar (Tribe Records)
Outstanding Variety or Talk Show Episode
“Andy Cohen Calls for Change So He Can Donate His Plasma” Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo)
“Black Trans Lives Matter” Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)
“Emily’s Coming Out Story” Red Table Talk: The Estefans (Facebook Watch)
“Laverne Cox – Exploring Trans Representation with ‘Disclosure’” The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
“Lilly Responds to Comments About Her Sexuality” A Little Late With Lilly Singh (NBC)
Outstanding TV Journalism Segment
“Black Trans Activists on Being the ‘Blueprint for the Struggle for Black Freedom’” MSNBC Live with Hallie Jackson (MSNBC)
“Dwyane Wade One-On-One: Basketball Legend Opens Up About Supporting Transgender Daughter” Good Morning America (ABC)
“Faith, Foster Care and LGBTQ Rights Collide in Supreme Court” ABC News Prime (ABC News Live)
“One-on-One with Transportation Secretary Nominee Pete Buttigieg” State of the Union (CNN)
“Trans and Non-Binary People Face Voting Barriers Ahead of 2020 Election” (CBSN)
Outstanding TV Journalism – Long-Form
“ABC News Joe Biden Town Hall” (ABC)
“The Deciders” (CBS)
“Pride and Protest: Being Black and Queer in America in 2020” (NBC News NOW)
“Pride on ABC News Live: The Landmark Decision” (ABC News Live)
“Prideland” (PBS)
A full list of nominees can be seen here: glaad.org/mediaawards/nominees. Award recipients will be announced during a virtual ceremony scheduled for April 2021.
He has appeared in several television programs and films including Game of Thrones, The Umbrella Society, Merlin, Doctor Who, Casualty, Tormented and Black Sails.
The handsome and very well-built actor is well-aware of his big gay fan base and welcomes it.
“I think gay fans are better than any kind of fan, than any demographic,” he said in 2010. “A gay fan base is probably one of the most loyal, you don’t shut it away and I embrace it. I have so many gay mates, so many, if they wanna look at me in this and read about me and do whatever they wanna do then perfect, great.”
When asked how he feels being hit on by guys, he said: “When it comes to guys, I don’t really think about it, if it happens it happens. I am a bit of a flirt though. I do flirt with guys just for a laugh and its fun, it’s just like chatting”
Cloris Leachman, who died today at 94, left behind an astounding body of work in television and film.
There is so much to choose from in highlighting her work but for today, I’m just going for some of the obvious stuff: Phyllis Lindstrom, Frau Blücher, and Ruth Popper.
Very sad to hear that Cloris Leachman has died at the age of 94.
What a great life and astounding career she had from her Oscar-winning role on The Last Picture Show to her great run as Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the spinoff Phyllis. She won eight Prime-Time Emmys and one Daytime Emmy during her long career.
I know her Emmy count quite well because about 15 years ago, my niece and I were seated next to Miss Leachman and her granddaughter at the Disneyland premiere of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean films. In introducing my niece, I said Miss Leachman had won eight Emmys and an Oscar. She corrected me by saying: “Actually, it’s nine.” I had not counted the Daytime Emmy. During the screening, which was held outdoors, Miss Leachman covered my niece with a blanket as the evening grew colder. It struck me how normal this big star, a mother of five, really was off-screen.
A few years earlier, I had interviewed Miss Leachman by phone when she was nominated for a SAG Award for her performance ing Spanglish. She told me she would have gotten to the phone sooner but she was picking up a “steaming pile of dogs*t in the yard.”
What a character!
Among her other most famous TV roles: She replaced Charlotte Rae for the final two seasons of The Facts of Life, played Ellen DeGeneres’ mom for the single season of The Ellen Show, recurred on Malcolm in the Middle from 2001-06 as Grandma Ida and earned two Emmy Awards, and was a she was a series regular on Fox’s Raising Hope from 2011-14. One of her earliest TV roles was playing the mom in Lassie. She left the show after the first season and was replaced by June Lockhart. Her final regular TV roles was that of Mrs. Mandelbaum in 10 episodes of the 2019 reboot of Mad About You.
Her memorable films included the Mel Brooks flicks Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, and The History of the World Part I, an acclaimed performance in Spanglish starring Adam Sandler, and the role of Granny in a big-screen adaptation of The Beverly Hillbillies.
Before her success in television and films, Miss Leachman spent more than a decade on the Broadway stage appearing in 12 productions (plays and musicals) in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s including the lead role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific after Mary Martin left the show. She was also in a national tour of Showboat in the mid-90s.
Jane Fonda will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the virtual Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Feb. 28, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced on Tuesday.
The 83-year-old is the winner of two Oscars and three Golden Globe Awards. She will become the 67th — and 16th female — recipient of the HFPA’s highest honor for a film professional, which has been presented since 1952.
Chosen by the HFPA’s board for a prize intended to celebrate “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment,” she will follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney, Judy Garland, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and yes, her father, who was the recipient in 1980.
“The Hollywood Foreign Press Association takes great pride in bestowing the 2021 Cecil B. DeMille Award to Jane Fonda,” HFPA president Ali Sar said in a statement. “For more than five decades, Jane’s breadth of work has been anchored in her unrelenting activism, using her platform to address some of the most important social issues of our time. Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition, and while her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained. We are honored to celebrate her achievements at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards.”
Fonda will soon be seen in the seventh and final season of Netflix’s Grace & Frankie and has been highly active in the fight to combat climate change, raising awareness through her Fire Drill Fridays and a book released last fall, What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action.
Her films include Barefoot in the Park, Sunday in New York, Cat Ballou, Hurry Sundown, The Chase, Barbarella, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Klute, Julia, Coming Home, The China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond, The Dollmaker, Agnes of God, The Morning After, Monster-In-Law, Youth, Our Souls at Night, and Book Club, among many more.
Paul Newman was, quite simply, one of the best looking men to have ever walked the Earth. Born in 1925, he would have been 96 today.
In addition to his Oscar-winning role in The Color of Money, his other classic films included Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Sweet Bird of Youth and Cool Hand Luke among many others.
Newman’s last movie appearance was as a conflicted mob boss in the 2002 film Road to Perdition opposite Tom Hanks, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
His last appearance overall was in 2005 in the HBO mini-series Empire Falls for which he won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy.
At the time of his death in 2008, he had been married to Joanne Woodward for 50 years.
In a new episode of her podcast, Mayim Bialik explores the neurobiology and neuroanatomical differences between gay and straight men while the beloved comedian Leslie Jordan shares his personal struggles with crystal meth and alcoholism. He discusses growing up gay in the south at a time when no one talked about gay rights and he reflects on starting his first serious relationship in his 50s and how sobriety has allowed him access to aspects of his mental health and love life he had never experienced.
Today is the 64th birthday of Black-ish star Jenifer Lewis who sings one helluva number.
She’s been turning in powerful performances on stage, on screen and on television for decades and she’s been a staunch supporter of the LGBTQ community forever. Some of my favorite memories of events including AIDS Walk LA have been when Jenifer belts out You’ll Never Walk Alone. No one – no one – sings that song the way she does. I can’t find it on YouTube!
But I did find some other songs including I Know Where I’ve Been from the hit musical Hairspray and the Donna Summer classic Last Dance.
Happy birthday to the self-proclaimed “Mother of Black Hollywood.”