GLAAD Media Awards: Schitt’s Creek and Black Lightning Earn First Nods, Sense8 Gets Its Last, Soaps Dropped
Schitt’s Creek, Black Lightning, Pose and Vida are among the first-time contenders at the 30th GLAAD Media Awards, whose nominations were announced on Friday by Mj Rodriguez (Pose) and Nico Santos (Crazy Rich Asians), live from the Sundance Film Festival.
Also of note: Last year’s best drama winner, This Is Us, didn’t make the cut this time around, while Netflix’s Sense8 picked up one final nod for its series-ending movie. Meanwhile, TVLine has confirmed that the Daily Drama category, which recognized achievements on soap operas (The Bold and the Beautiful won the past three years), was dropped this time around.
Acknowledging the fairness, accuracy, inclusiveness, boldness, originality, impact and overall quality of LGBTQ representations in the media, this year’s GLAAD Media Awards will be held Thursday, March 28 (in Los Angeles) and Saturday, May 4 (in New York).
Outstanding Drama Series
Billions (Showtime)
Black Lightning (The CW)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Instinct (CBS)
Pose (FX)
Shadowhunters (Freeform)
Star (Fox)
Supergirl (The CW)
Wynonna Earp (Syfy)
Outstanding Comedy Series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Season 5 on Fox) — LAST YEAR’S WINNER
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW)
Dear White People (Netflix)
Modern Family (ABC)
One Day at a Time (Netflix)
Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Superstore (NBC)
This Close (Sundance Now)
Vida (Starz)
Will & Grace (NBC)
Individual Episode (in a series w/o a regular LGBTQ character)
“King in the North,” Fresh Off the Boat
“Prom,” Fuller House
“Service,” Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
“She,” The Good Doctor
“Someplace Other Than Here,” The Guest Book
Outstanding TV-Movie or Limited Series
American Horror Story: Apocalypse (FX)
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)
Life-Size 2 (Freeform)
Sense8 (Netflix)
A Very English Scandal (Amazon)
Outstanding Documentary
Believer (HBO)
Call Her Ganda (Breaking Glass Pictures)
My House (Viceland)
Quiet Heroes (Logo)
When the Beat Drops (Logo)
Outstanding Kids & Family Programming
Adventure Time (Cartoon Network)
Andi Mack (The Disney Channel) — LAST YEAR’S WINNER
Anne With an E (Netflix)
She-Ra (Netflix)
Steven Universe (Cartoon Network)
Outstanding Reality Program
American Idol (ABC)
I Am Jazz (TLC)
Love & Hip Hop (VH1)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
Outstanding Variety or Talk Show Episode
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: “Mike Pence and ‘A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo'” — LAST YEAR’S WINNING PROGRAM
Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas: “NRA Problems, Chicken Bone Problems, Birmingham Problems”
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee: “Trans Rights Under Attack”
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “Troye Sivan Hopes ‘Boy Erased’ Reaches All Parents”
The Ellen DeGeneres Show: “Valedictorian Seth Owen”
Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine
CBS Sunday Morning: “Conversion Therapy: God Only Knows”
CBS News: “Gender: The Space Between”
Nightline: “Legacy of Hope”
SC Featured (ESPN): “Respect”
KSAT News (San Antonio, Texas): “South Texas Pride”
Outstanding TV Journalism Segment
NBC Nightly News: “Historic Number of LGBTQ Candidates on Ballots This Year” — LAST YEAR’S WINNING PROGRAM
Vice News Tonight: “Mississippi Town Denies Pride Parade”
New Day (CNN): “Olympian Adam Rippon”
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon: “Same-sex Couple Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling”
Velshi & Ruhle (MSNBC): “Trump: ‘Looking Very Seriously’ at Changing Transgender Definition”
Patrick singing to David in the Apothecary on Open Mic Night should win this for Schitt’s Creek. Hands down.
Agreed! David’s dance to the same song as a callback pushes it into a landslide victory.
Where’s legends of tomorrow? Maybe if they hadn’t had Sara and Ava turn back during that kiss, they would have made it.
Nah, the problem with LoT is that their portrayal of LBQT is “too normal”. It just is. No one makes a fuss about it. There is no grandstanding, no cis-het-white hater of the lez. Sara is just gay and that’s the end of it. And while that’s how it should be (on TV and IRL) it’s just not award-worthy because it lacks the headline-worthy drama.
Shouldn’t a show explore what it is like to be gay and how people react to them. Or transgender, like Supergirl did with Nia Nals. Otherwise what is the point of having gay and transgender character. Might as well make them straight if they aren’t going to do anything with the characters.
What’s there to explore? They live on a small ship, they are a tight little and instead of Sara kissing and sleeping with a man, she sleeps with a woman. The point (which you were asking about) of showing being gay being just as everage and mundane as a hetero relationship is showing that it’s not supposed to different. Nobody makes a fuss about an interracial relationship anymore when 50 years ago the kiss between Kirk and Uhura was a pretty big deal.
Just look at the other people on the ship. Sara is pretty much the only one who’s in a relationship at all. All the straight people are single ATM.
You can’t have it both ways. If you want society to accept homosexuality be as normal as heterosexuality you can’t constantly paint it as something special.
*are a tight little group
She-ra? That’s an interesting choice
“Soaps dropped…” heh