The nominees are out for the 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards, with Moonlight, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Steven Universe and Supergirl all up for awards.
While the Outstanding Film (wide release) category only has two nominees – Moonlight and Star Trek Beyond, other categories have been expanded.
Both Outstanding Music Artist and Outstanding Comic Book were expanded to 10 nominees.
‘At a time when progress is at a critical juncture, it is imperative that Hollywood tell more LGBTQ stories that reflect the community’s rich diversity—and build understanding that brings all communities closer together,’ said GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis.
‘This year’s nominees have created images and storylines that challenge misconceptions and broaden understanding, accelerating acceptance and equality for LGBTQ people across the globe.’
The GLAAD Media Awards will be held in Los Angeles on 1 April at The Beverly Hilton, and in New York on 6 May at the New York Hilton Midtown.
But who will win? We give our take on the nominees of some of the bigger categories below:
Outstanding Film – Wide Release
Moonlight
A24
Star Trek Beyond
Paramount Pictures
Who will win? It’s undeniably Moonlight’s year. The groundbreaking LGBTI hit of the year. While some might like how Sulu was gay in the new Star Trek film, not a lot of people did – including original actor George Takei.
Outstanding Film – Limited Release
The Handmaiden
Amazon Studios/Magnolia Pictures
Naz & Maalik
Wolfe Releasing
Other People
Vertical Entertainment
Spa Night
Strand Releasing
Those People
Wolfe Releasing
Who will win? A strong category, but we’re hoping Naz & Maalik – a tender tale about the story of two gay Muslim teens – wins as far more people should see it.
Outstanding Comedy Series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
FOX
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
The CW
Grace and Frankie
Netflix
Modern Family
ABC
One Mississippi
Amazon
The Real O’Neals
ABC
Steven Universe
Cartoon Network
Survivor’s Remorse
Starz
Take My Wife
Seeso
Transparent
Amazon
Who will win? A packed category. For us it’s either a toss-up between Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, for finally showing a bisexual male who is also a good person on TV, or the beloved children’s cartoon Steven Universe.
Outstanding Drama Series
The Fosters
Freeform
Grey’s Anatomy
ABC
Hap and Leonard
SundanceTV
How to Get Away with Murder
ABC
The OA
Netflix
Orphan Black
BBC America
Shadowhunters
Freeform
Shameless
Showtime
Supergirl
The CW
Wynonna Earp
Syfy
Who will win? Again, a packed list. Both The Fosters and Orphan Black are showing incredible depicts of lesbian characters on TV, but you have to give it to Supergirl. The CW showed it was a risk worth taking when they put a lesbian relationship at the center of a superhero TV show.
Outstanding Individual Episode
(in a series without a regular LGBTQ character)
‘Attention Deficit’ The Loud House
Nickelodeon
‘Bar Fights’ Drunk History
Comedy Central
‘Johnson & Johnson’ Black-ish
ABC
‘San Junipero’ Black Mirror
Netflix
‘Vegan Cinderella’ Easy
Netflix
Who will win? We loved the Black-ish episode, and Black Mirror’s San Junipero is an incredible piece of work. But it is Drunk History we’d most like to see win, perhaps surprisingly. In their episode of the Stonewall riots, they had trans actresses playing trans roles at the very center of the story. It was beautiful to see a pivotal moment in the LGBTI rights movement finally portrayed properly.
Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series
Eyewitness
USA Network
London Spy
BBC America
Looking: The Movie
HBO
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again
FOX
Vicious: The Finale
PBS
Who will win? Looking, London Spy and Vicious went off the deep end. The Rocky Horror Picture Show remake was well meant, but was only worth watching for Laverne Cox as Frank n Furter. Looking might have it in the bag, but we’d probably give it to Eyewitness.
Outstanding Documentary
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
HBO
Out of Iraq
Logo
The Same Difference
Centric
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Investigation Discovery
The Trans List
HBO
Who will win? Southwest of Salem tapped into anyone needing another hit of that true crime craze fueled by Serial and Making A Murderer, and is definitely worth watching among the very good documentaries in this category.
Outstanding Reality Program
Gaycation
Viceland
I Am Cait
E!
I Am Jazz
TLC
The Prancing Elites Project
Oxygen
Strut
Oxygen
Who will win? We’d give this one to Gaycation, the Ellen Page travel documentary, or Strut, the trans model reality show.
Outstanding Music Artist
Against Me!, Shape Shift With Me
Total Treble Music/Xtra Mile
Blood Orange, Freetown Sound
Domino
Brandy Clark, Big Day in a Small Town
Warner Bros. Records
Tyler Glenn, Excommunication
Island Records
Ty Herndon, House on Fire
BFD
Elton John, Wonderful Crazy Night
Island Records
Lady Gaga, Joanne
Interscope Records
Frank Ocean, Blonde
Boys Don’t Cry
Sia, This is Acting
RCA Records
Tegan and Sara, Love You to Death
Warner Bros. Records
Who will win? Again, a massively packed category. Our guts say to go with Frank Ocean, our hearts love Sia, but Against Me!’s album – written as Laura Jane Grace dealt with coming out as a trans punk star – is one people will hold onto for a very long time.
Outstanding Comic Book
All-New X-Men
by Dennis Hopeless, Mark Bagley (Marvel Comics)
Black Panther
by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze, (Marvel Comics)
DC Comics Bombshells
by Marguerite Bennett, Laura Braga, Sandy Jarrell (DC Comics)
Kim & Kim, by Magdalene Visaggio, Eva Cabrera (Black Mask Studios)
IDW/DC Comics
Love is Love
Produced by Marc Andreyko (IDW, DC Comics)
Lumberjanes
by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh (BOOM! Studios)
Midnighter/Midnighter and Apollo,
by Steve Orlando, David Messina,(DC Comics)
Patsy Walker, A.K.A Hellcat!,
by Kate Leth, Brittney L. Williams, (Marvel Comics)
Saga
by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
The Woods
by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas (BOOM! Studios)
Who will win? It says a lot about the comic book industry that even this category has been widened to 10 nominees. Saga is a must-read, while Iceman coming out in All-New X-Men has been incredible to see. And who can forget Midnighter/Midnighter and Apollo, DC’s first series headed up by a gay couple? But Love Is Love, the comic book industry’s love letter to the victims killed in Orlando, is truly one of the most incredible pieces of art from 2016.
The other nominees are:
Outstanding Daily Drama
The Bold and The Beautiful
CBS
Outstanding Talk Show Episode
‘Angelica Ross’ The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Comedy Central
‘Cookie Johnson’ Super Soul Sunday
OWN
‘North Carolina and Georgia Anti-LGBTQ Laws’ Late Night with Seth Meyers
NBC
‘Tony Marrero, Orlando Shooting Survivor’ The Ellen DeGeneres Show
syndicated
‘Trey Pearson’ The View
ABC
Outstanding TV Journalism – News magazine
‘Bingham’ SC Featured
ESPN
‘Church and States’ VICE News Tonight
HBO
‘Gavin Grimm’s Fight’ VICE News Tonight
HBO
‘Life as Matt’ E:60
ESPN
‘Switching Teams’ 60 Minutes
CBS
Outstanding TV Journalism Segment
‘Gay Community in U.S. ’Forged in Fire’
The Rachel Maddow Show
MSNBC
‘Interview with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
‘Many in LGBT Community Fear Changes under Trump’
NBC Nightly News
NBC
‘Terror in Orlando’
PBS NewsHour
PBS
‘Troop Turnaround: U.S. Military Transgender Ban Ended by Pentagon’
CBS This Morning
CBS
Outstanding Newspaper Article
‘An LGBT Hunger Crisis’ by Roni Caryn Rabin
The New York Times
‘Mid-South Couples Celebrate First Year of Marriage Equality, But Challenges Remain for LGBT Community’
by Katie Fretland, Ron Maxey
The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, Tenn.]
‘Nowhere to Go: LGBT Youth on the Move’ by Arielle Dreher
Jackson Free Press [Jackson, Miss.]
‘Permission to Hate’ by Elizabeth Leland
The Charlotte Observer
‘Worthy of Survival’ by Kathleen McGrory
Tampa Bay Times
Outstanding Magazine Article
‘Battle of the Bathroom’ by Michael Scherer
Time
‘HIV Mystery: Solved?’ by Tim Murphy
The Nation
‘The Official Coming-Out Party’ by Kevin Arnovitz
ESPN The Magazine
‘On the Run’ by Jacob Kushner
Vice Magazine
‘Rethinking Gender’ by Robin Marantz Henig
National Geographic
Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage
The Advocate
Cosmopolitan
Seventeen
Teen Vogue
Time
Outstanding Digital Journalism Article
‘105 Trans Women On American TV: A History and Analysis’ by Riese Bernard
Autostraddle.com
‘After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos’ by Daniel Wenger
NewYorker.com
‘The Methodist Church May Split Over LGBT Issues. Meet the Lesbian Bishop Caught in the Middle.’ by Becca Andrews
MotherJones.com
‘These are the Queer Refugees Australia has Locked Up on a Remote Pacific Island’ by J. Lester Feder
BuzzFeed.com
‘The Uncertain Olympic Future for Trans and Intersex Athletes’ by Diana Tourjee
Broadly.Vice.com
Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia
‘Last Men Standing: AIDS Survivors Still Fighting for Their Lives’ by Erin Allday
SFChronicle.com
‘New Deep South: Kayla’
TheFront.com
‘No Access: Young, Black & Positive’
Tonic.Vice.com
‘Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives’ by Meredith Talusan
Mic.com
‘Willing and Able: Employment as a Transgender New Yorker’ by Jordi Oliveres, Santiago García Muñoz
Fusion.net
Outstanding Blog
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com
I’m Still Josh
imstilljosh.com
Mombian
mombian.com
My Fabulous Disease
marksking.com
TransGriot
transgriot.blogspot.com
Special Recognition
Her Story
HerStoryShow.com
We’ve Been Around
WeveBeenAround.com