GLAAD Award nominees include <i>Angels, Queer Eye</i> (10698)

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation on Monday announced the nominees for its 15th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which will be given out at ceremonies in three cities in 2004. The competition includes head-to-head battles between HBO's acclaimed adaptation of Angels in America and Showtime's acclaimed Soldier's Girl; Bravo's hit reality series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and CBS's The Amazing Race (in a new category created for reality television); ESPN's drama series Playmakers, HBO's Six Feet Under, and Showtime's Queer as Folk; and ABC's new hit sitcom It's All Relative and four-time GLAAD winner Will & Grace, among other matchups. The group also announced nominees in its first-ever Spanish-language categories.

Reflecting a dearth of mainstream films with gay or lesbian content in 2003, only two films were nominated for the high-profile Outstanding Film-Wide Release category: Bend It Like Beckham, which features a supporting gay male character, and Under the Tuscan Sun, which features a supporting lesbian character. Five films from five different countries will compete for Outstanding Film-Limited Release: Die Mommie Die! (USA), Gasoline (Italy), Madame Sata (Brazil), Mambo Italiano (Canada), and Yossi & Jagger (Israel).

"Special honorees" announced by GLAAD are Julianne Moore (Excellence in Media Award), Megan Mullally (Golden Gate Award), Cherry Jones (Vito Russo Award), John Waters (Stephen F. Kolzak Award), and Clive Barker (Davidson-Valentini Award). Receiving the Barbara Gittings Award--the only category to honor gay and lesbian media outlets, which are not permitted to compete in GLAAD's other journalism categories--will be the PBS newsmagazine show In the Life.

Ellen DeGeneres, whose syndicated daytime chat show The Ellen DeGeneres Show was eligible for Outstanding Talk Show, did not receive a nomination.

The GLAAD Media Awards--which the organization says "recognize and honor the media for their presentation of fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and the issues that affect our lives"--will be given out at ceremonies in Los Angeles on March 27; in New York on April 12; and in San Francisco on June 5.

"Fair, accurate, and inclusive media images of our lives and our families have incredible cultural power--and right now those images are more important than ever," said Joan M. Garry, GLAAD's executive director, in a press release. "This year, audiences saw stories of gay and lesbian families and children in Under the Tuscan Sun, [the UPN series] Girlfriends, and Essence magazine. They saw complex, authentic stories about transgender lives in [the cable TV movies] Normal and Soldier's Girl. Time and again, story after story, this year's GLAAD Media Awards nominees made a powerful case for fairness and equality, and it's our privilege to honor them."

The complete list of nominees follows:

OUTSTANDING FILM - WIDE RELEASE
Bend It Like Beckham (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Under the Tuscan Sun (Touchstone Pictures)

OUTSTANDING FILM - LIMITED RELEASE
Die Mommie Die! (Sundance Film Series)
Gasoline (Strand Releasing)
Madame Sata (Wellspring Media Inc.)
Mambo Italiano (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Yossi & Jagger (Strand Releasing)

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Degrassi: The Next Generation (The N)
Nip/Tuck (FX)
Playmakers (ESPN)
Queer as Folk (Showtime)
Six Feet Under (HBO)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
It's All Relative (ABC)
Oliver Beene (Fox)
Reno 911! (Comedy Central)
Sex and the City (HBO)
Will & Grace (NBC)

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE
(in a series without a regular gay character)
"A Time to Hate," Cold Case (CBS)
"And Baby Makes Four," Girlfriends (UPN)
"Chapter Fifty-eight," Boston Public (Fox)
"Fallacy," Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
"Sleeping Lions," The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. (CBS)

OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Angels in America (HBO)
Cambridge Spies (BBC America)
Normal (HBO)
Soldier's Girl (Showtime)
Tipping the Velvet (BBC America)

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
The Amazing Race 4 (CBS)
America's Next Top Model (UPN)
Boy Meets Boy (Bravo)
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo)
The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet (MTV)

OUTSTANDING TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
A Boy Named Sue (Showtime)
Brother Outsider (PBS)
Daddy & Papa (PBS)
Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay (PBS)
School's Out: The Life of a Gay High School in Texas (MTV)

OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
All My Children (ABC)

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW (SINGLE EPISODE)
"Alyn Libman," The Sharon Osbourne Show (syndicated)
"The Husband Who Became a Woman," The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM (SINGLE SEGMENT)
"The Death of Sakia Gunn," Live From the Headlines (CNN)
"Father Raymond: A Question of Faith and Identity," Nightline (ABC)
"It's In to Be 'Out,' " 20/20 (ABC)
"Not Fit to Fight," Primetime Thursday (ABC)
"Up Close: The Killing of Gwen Araujo," KCAL 9 News (KCAL, Los Angeles)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
"Motherhood My Way" by Jacqueline Woodson, Essence
"The New Face of Gay Power" by John Cloud, Time
"One of These Men Used to Be a She" by Nanette Varian, Glamour
"Their True Selves" by Kade Collins and Samantha Lease, as told to Stephanie Booth, Teen People
"To be Young, Gifted, and Gay" by Farah Stockman, Honey

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Nation
National Catholic Reporter
Newsweek
People
Time

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"Angels, Reagan and AIDS in America" by Frank Rich (The New York Times)
"For Gays, Secrecy in Love, War" by Patricia Ward Biederman (Los Angeles Times)
"Gays Feel Left Out of Morehouse Brotherhood" by Craig Seymour (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
"Same-Sex Unions Move Center Stage" by David Von Drehle (The Washington Post)
"Straddling Sexes" by Louise Rafkin (San Francisco Chronicle)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Dave Ford (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ellen Goodman (The Boston Globe)
Ed Gray (Boston Herald)
Leonard Pitts Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Deb Price (The Detroit News)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
The Boston Globe
Chicago Tribune
The New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle
USA Today

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
"Abuse and Neglect" by David Tuller, Salon.com
"Lives Less Ordinary" by Bryan Robinson, ABCNews.com
"Out at the Prom" by Julie Scelfo, Newsweek.MSNBC.com
"Out of Step" by Martha Brant, Newsweek.MSNBC.com
"Same-Sex Family Values" by Laura McClure, Salon.com

OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING--ELECTRONIC
"Hotel Matrix," for Orbitz
"Marco: Independence," for The N
"Wedding," for Snapple

OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING--PRINT
"Absolut Out," for Absolut
"R You Ready to Adopt a New Lifestyle?" for Chereskin

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
Bitch and Animal, Sour Juice and Rhyme
Junior Senior, d-d-don't stop the beat
Meshell Ndegeocello, Comfort Woman
Peaches, Fatherf**ker
Rufus Wainwright, Want One

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
The Authority (Wildstorm/DC Comics)
Catwoman (DC Comics)
Gotham Central (DC Comics)
How Loathsome (NBM Publishing)
Strangers in Paradise (Abstract Studio)

OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER
Autumn Canticle
Blues for an Alabama Sky
Body of Faith
Miss Coco Peru Is Undaunted
Naked Will: The Portrait of W.H.

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY
Avenue Q
Flesh and Blood
I Am My Own Wife
The Last Sunday in June
Taboo

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF-OFF-BROADWAY
Auntie Mayhem
Bernadette and the Butcher of Broadway
Marga Gomez's Intimate Details
Say You Love Satan
To My Chagrin

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Off the Roof (Mun2)

SPANISH LANGUAGE CATEGORIES:

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE
(in a television series without a regular gay character)
Lo Que Callamos las Mujeres (Azteca America)

DAILY DRAMA
Adrian Esta de Visita (Telemundo)
Clase 406 (Univision)
Los Teens (Telemundo)

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAMMING
La Cenicienta (Telemundo)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM
"Disenadora Transgenero," Primer Impacto (Univision)
"Junio: Mes del Orgullo Gay," Despierta America (Univision)
"Matrimonio y Terminologia LGBT," Primera Edicion (Univision Channel 34, Los Angeles)
"Padres Gay," Ultima Hora (Univision)
"VIH/SIDA," Sin Fronteras (Telemundo)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
"Un Beso por la Igualdad de Derechos" by Teresa Aranguez (People en Espanol)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"Asistencia Social: Burocracia Afecta a Enfermos de SIDA" by Jose L. Llanes (Hoy, New York)
"Celebran los 'Gays' el Fallo" by Maria Vera (El Vocero, Puerto Rico)
"El Final Feliz de una Larga Pesadilla" by Isabel Inclan (La Opinion, Los Angeles)
"Recuerdan a Gwen Araujo" by Araceli Martinez Ortega (La Opinion, Los Angeles)
"Sepultan Leyes de Sodomia en Estados Unidos" by Christian del Moral (Hoy, New York)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Adria Cruz (Primera Hora, Puerto Rico)
Maria Mahia (Hoy, New York)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
Hoy (New York)
El Nuevo Herald (Miami)
La Opinion (Los Angeles)
Primera Hora (Puerto Rico)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
"Homosexuales: Realidades y Prejuicios" by Grace Fuller, CNNenEspanol.com
"Una Decision Que Puede Sentar un Precedente para el Resto de EE.UU." by Grace Fuller, CNNenespanol.com
"Victoria para Matrimonios del Mismo Sexo" by Emilio Guerra, Univision.com

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Cabas, "Tu Boca"