GLAAD Media Awards (television categories)
In the GLAAD Media Awards television categories, announced Sunday evening from the Sundance film Festival, broadcast networks unexpectedly outpaced cable networks 18 nominations to 12. Such "Out In Hollywood" favorites as "Brothers & Sisters" and "Ugly Betty" getting nods as well as an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,� currently embroiled in controversy over an anti-gay slur said by cast member Isaiah Washington about openly-gay castmate T.R. Knight. So caught up are we in the off-screen drama in recent weeks, it's easy to forget that "Grey's" is really a terrific show!
Here are the nominees in the major categories:
Competing for best drama series overall were shows that all had prominent continuing gay storylines: “Brothers & Sisters,� “The L Word,� “Hex,� “The Sopranos,� and “South of Nowhere.�
“Grey’s� was nominated in the category of individual episode of a show without a regular gay character. It competes with episodes of “30 Rock,� “Cold Case,� “American Dad!� and “How I Met Your Mother.� The "Grey's" episode was the one that had all of the doctors going fishing together and on the trip were the gay bartender from the hospital watering hole and his boyfriend. The "Mother" episode guest-starred Wayne Brady as the gay brother of Neil Patrick Harris' straight character, Barney.
The shows up for outstanding comedy series are “Desperate Housewives,� “The Office,� “So NoTORIous,� and “Ugly Betty.� I dunno about "Housewives" which has relegated gay teen Andrew Van De Camp to glorified extra which seems so inexplicable and has lessened my enthusiasm for the show a full notch.
Outstanding reality program nominees all had gay participants or regulars so that would mean "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" gets a nod as well as "Project Runway" and "Work Out." Rounding out the category are CBS stalwarts "Big Brother: All Stars" *For Marcellas' particpation or Howie's?) and "The Amazing Race 10."
“These bold projects, images and voices have once again raised the bar for excellence in media representations of our lives,� says GLAAD President Neil Giuliano. “As we continue to fight against forces that threaten our progress toward equality, it’s gratifying to be able to celebrate the creative accomplishments of those who are committed to sharing the truth of our lives and our stories.�
The GLAAD awards honor mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. They will be broadcast on Logo, MTV Networks’ cable channel dedicated to gay programming, on April 21.
To see a YouTube video of the announcement with clips from nominees, click HERE.
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Comments
So I get to your site through my friend and blogmate, Clay's. I look @ your pic and realize we met at an event. I start reading through things you've written. Good. Funny. And then I get to things you said about me. It's not often you meet your detractors face to face. I was nice to you when we met. It's a bit unsettling to see that you weren't very nice about me in your coverage of Big Brother.
I find it interesting that this is the year that GLAAD chooses to nominate Big Brother. When I look @ the season I see cast mates who were homophobic. I see the only gay cast member to make the show willfully edited poorly. I see a lack of inclusion of gay cast members on a production scale. I also see a show I was not proud to be a part of.
I'll say this, I wasn't happy to be there. For me Big Brother All-Stars was a bad experience all around. Do I think I deserve a bit of latitude for that? I don't know. I do think that in the future you should try and be nicer about the House Guests. We are human. And on a show like Big Brother, that is so heavily edited for a desired outcome, viewers don't get the truest measure of who we are. And who knows? You may one day meet us.
M. Reynolds
Posted by: Marcellas | January 28, 2007 11:02 AM