#glaadawards MARCH 16, 2013 NEW YORK NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS APRIL 20, 2013 LOS AnGELES JW MARRIOTT LOS AnGELES MAY 11, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO HILTON SAN FRANCISCO - UnION SQUARE CONNECT WITH US CORPORATE PARTNERS PRESIDENT’S LETTer NOMINEE SELECTION PROCESS speCIAL HONOrees NOMINees SUPPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT Welcome to the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Thank you for joining us to celebrate fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the media. Tonight, as we recognize outstanding achievements and bold visions, we also take pause to remember the impact of our most powerful tool: our voice. The past year in news, entertainment and online media reminds us that our stories are what continue to drive equality forward. When four states brought marriage equality to the election FROM THE PRESIDENT ballot last year, GLAAD stepped forward to help couples across the nation to share messages of love and commitment that lit the way for landmark victories in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on whether same- sex couples should receive the same federal protections as straight married couples, and GLAAD is leading the media narrative and reshaping the way Americans view marriage equality. Because of GLAAD’s work, the Boy Scouts of America is closer than ever before to ending its discriminatory ban on gay scouts and leaders. GLAAD is empowering people like Jennifer Tyrrell – an Ohio mom who was ousted as leader of her son’s Cub Scouts pack – to share their stories with top-tier national news outlets, helping Americans understand the harm this ban inflicts on gay youth and families. GLAAD’s Commentator Accountability Project (CAP) is putting critical information about anti- gay activists into the hands of newsrooms, editors, and hosts around the country. Now, more than ever, journalists are challenging the lies and misinformation spread by anti-gay commentators. FROM THE PRESIDENT These are just a few examples of the ways that GLAAD is working to bring LGBT people and issues to the forefront. But there’s still a great deal of work to be done, particularly for the much- underserved transgender community. Now we’re redoubling our efforts, calling for equal treatment of trans youth like Coy Mathis, and holding media like The New York Post accountable for anti-trans bias. With your help, I know that GLAAD can continue growing our impact to benefit GL BT people everywhere. Please join me in congratulating tonight’s nominees, award recipients and honorees, and in helping to ensure GLAAD can continue its work to lead the conversation for LGBT equality. Herndon Graddick President NOMINEE SELECTION PROCESS The GLAAD Media Awards have been held annually since 1990; they recognize and honor news and entertainment media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect our lives. SELECTION PROCESS NOMINEE SELECTION Nominees are selected by juries comprised of volunteers with interest and expertise in the particular media category they are judging. In 2012, over 70 volunteers served on 5 separate Nomination Juries, selecting 120 nominees in 25 English-language categories, and 33 nominees in 8 Spanish-language categories. In addition to year-round media monitoring by the juries, GLAAD issues a Call for Entries, encouraging media outlets to submit outstanding work for consideration. GLAAD may nominate a mainstream media project even if it is not submitted as part of the Call for Entries. However, media outlets created by and for an LGBT audience must submit in order to be considered for nomination. GLAAD does not monitor media created by and for the LGBT community for defamation – therefore we do not generate a pool of potential nominees for juries to review. NOMINEE SELECTION Nominating Juries may select up to five nominees in each category. If no projects are deemed worthy of nomination, the juries may choose to nominate nothing. At the end of the year, the Nominating Juries submit their list of recommended nominees to GLAAD’s staff and Board of Directors for final approval. All media projects with LGBT images are evaluated using four criteria: 1. FAIR, ACCURATE AND INCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIONS Rather than portraying the LGBT community in broad stereotypes, the project deals with the characters or themes in a fair, accurate, and multi-dimensional manner. (This is different than a “positive role model.”) Inclusive means that the diversity of the LGBT community is represented. This includes economic, geographic, and political diversity, as well as people of color, seniors, differently abled people, etc. 2. BOLDNESS AND ORIGINALITY The project breaks new ground by exploring LGBT subject matter in non-traditional ways and handles the LGBT content in a fresh and original manner. Is this project cutting-edge? NOMINEE SELECTION 3. IMPACT The project impacts society in a significant way. Does this project dramatically increase the cultural dialogue about LGBT issues? Or, does this project reach an audience that is not regularly exposed to LGBT images and issues? 4. OVERALL QUALITY A project of extremely high quality adds impact and significance to the images and issues portrayed. Fair, accurate and inclusive images can sometimes be weakened when they are part of a poor-quality project. SELECTION OF AWARD RECIPIENTS Nearly 700 GLAAD Media Awards voters contribute to the selection of award recipients in each category via online balloting. Voters are comprised of three groups: GLAAD staff and board, GLAAD Media Circle members, and GLAAD volunteers & allies (which includes previous Special Honorees, key media industry allies, volunteers from the Nominating Juries, and Event Production teams). NOMINEE SELECTION The votes of these three groups result in a final slate of award recipients, which is then given to GLAAD’s Review Panel for certification. The Review Panel is comprised of the GLAAD Board co-chairs, senior GLAAD program and communications staff, and media industry experts. The members of the Review Panel are expected to view all of the nominees in each category. The final slate of award recipients is certified by the Review Panel, based on the results of the online balloting and their own expert opinions. Award recipients are announced at events held annually in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. VITO RUSSO AWARD ANDERSON COOPER ALLY AWARD BRETT RATNER ABOUT THE NOMINEES FULL LIST FILM TeLEVISION JOurNALISM & DIGITAL MusIC THEATer SPANISH-LANGUAGE NOMINEES OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTures Cloud Atlas WARNER BROS. PICTures ParaNorman FOCus FEATures The Perks of Being a Wallflower SUMMIT ENTerTAINMENT Your Sister’s Sister IFC FILMS NOMINEES OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE Any Day Now MusIC BOX FILMS Keep the Lights On MusIC BOX FILMS Mosquita y Mari WOLfe RELEASING Musical Chairs PALADIN North Sea Texas STRAND RELEASING OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES Degrassi TeeNNICK Grey’s Anatomy ABC The L.A. Complex THE CW Smash NBC True Blood HBO OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES Glee FOX Go On NBC Happy Endings ABC Modern Family ABC The New Normal NBC NOMINEES OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (IN A SERIES WITHOUT A REGULAR LGBT CHARACTER) “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Me What to Do” RAISING HOPE FOX “Family Matters” DROP DEAD DIVA LIfeTIME “L’Affaire Du Coeur” FRANKLIN & BASH TNT “Lost and Found” TOUCH FOX “Ruby Slippers” THE MENTALIST CBS OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES American Horror Story: Asylum FX Hit and Miss DIreCTV Political Animals USA OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY Chely Wright: Wish Me Away FIrsT RUN FEATures Codebreaker TODpIX Hit So Hard VARIANCE FILMS How to Survive a Plague SUNDANCE SELECTS Vito HBO NOMINEES OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM The Amazing Race CBS “It Is What It Is” HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO TLC The Real L Word SHOWTIME Small Town Security AMC Welcome to Hollywood PREGNANT IN HEELS BRAVO OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE “At Home with Neil Patrick Harris, His Fiancé David Burtka, & Their Twins” OPRAH’S NEXT CHAPTER OWN “Autoshop Restores Bullied Gay Student’s Car for Free” THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW SYNDICATED “Bishop Gene Robinson” THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART COMEDY CeNTRAL “The Husband Who is Now a Woman and the Daughter Who is Now a Son” THE JEFF PROBST SHOW SYNDICATED “Marriage Equality” THE SUZE ORMAN SHOW CNBC NOMINEES OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA The Bold and the Beautiful CBS Days of Our Lives NBC OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM-NEWSMAGAZINE “Almost Equal” CHRONICLE WCVB TV-5 [BOSTON, MAss.] “Being Transgender in America” MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY MSNBC “End of an Error” THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW MSNBC “Golden Star” ROCK CENTER WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS NBC “The Last Closet” REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUmbEL HBO OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT Civil Rights Icon Supports Gay Marriage CNN NEWSROOM CNN Controversial Pastor Preaches Against Gays ANDERSON COOPER 360 CNN Matthew Mitcham Olympics Profile NBC OLYMPICS NBC Obama Endorses Marriage Equality GOOD MORNING AmERICA ABC Scout Mom Dismissed MSNBC LIVE MSNBC NOMINEES OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE “Black Church Reaches Out to Gay, Transgender Teens” BY MEGHAN E. IRONS THE BOSTON GLObe “Game Changer” BY ANDY MANNIX CITY PAGes [MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.] “Generation Halsted” Series WINDY CITY TIMes [CHICAGO, ILL.] “Most Local School Districts Ignore State’s Anti-Gay Bullying Law” BY PHILLIP ZONKEL Press-TeLEGRAM [LONG BEACH, CALIF.] “Turned Away, He Turned to the Bible” BY DOUGLAS QUENQUA THE New YORK TIMes OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST Frank Bruni THE New YORK TIMes Bill Nemitz PORTLAND Press HerALD [PORTLAND, MAINE] Leonard Pitts, Jr. THE MIAMI HerALD Eugene Robinson THE WASHINGTON POST Dan Rodricks THE BALTIMOre SUN NOMINEES OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE The Baltimore Sun The Boston Globe Portland Press Herald [Portland, Maine] Sioux City Journal USA Today OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE “The First Gay President” BY ANDREW SULLIVAN NewsweeK “The Marriage Plot: Inside This Year’s Epic Campaign for Gay Equality” BY MOLLY BALL THE ATLANTIC “Netherland” BY RACHEL AVIV THE New YORKer “School of Hate” BY SABRINA RUBIN ERDELY ROLLING STONE “The Transgender Athlete” BY PABLO S.