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The 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees have been announced, designed to recognise and honour media "who have shown exemplary achievements for fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of the LGBTQ community and the issues that affect our lives" And that includes comic books Since its inception in 1990, the GLAAD Media Awards have grown to[...]

Last night saw the GLAAD Media Awards announced, which saw Outstanding Comic Book won by Poison Ivy published by DC Comics, and Young Men in Love: A Queer Romance Anthology edited by Joe Glass and Matt Miner from A Wave Blue World win Outstanding Graphic Novel Or Anthology. This is a dramatic turn of events for[...]

The 32nd GLAAD Outstanding Award nominations were announced in Los Angeles last night, designed to recognise and honour media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community and the issues that affect their lives And this year GLAAD is giving two awards for the first time,[...]

The 32nd GLAAD Outstanding Award nominations are out, designed to recognise and honour media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community and the issues that affect their lives And this year they are giving two awards for the first time, one for single comic books[...]

In the post below, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) shines a spotlight on McElhenney's two mothers, Helena McElhenney and Mary Taylor, as they share their love story with others. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Image: FX Networks) Here's a look at the post from GLAAD giving McElhenney and Taylor the opportunity to share their story[...]

The 32nd GLAAD Award nominations are out, designed to recognise and honour media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community and the issues that affect their lives. GLAAD Outstanding Comic Nominees For Marvel, DC, Boom, Random House In the comic book categories, DC Comics grabbed four nominees,[...]

When his life takes an unexpected turn, he will have to learn to adapt quickly. Blu del Barrio (left) and Ian Alexander (right) join Star Trek: Discovery (Images: CBS All Access) During an interview with GLAAD that was released along with the news, del Barrio was asked what they could share with fans about their character[...]

The 2020 GLAAD Media Awards held its first virtual ceremony on Thursday night (airing on Logo on August 3), and let's just say that FX's Pose, Pop's Schitt's Creek, CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and many more across the television/cable/streaming landscape had a pretty good night (check out the list of winners below)[...]

The GLAAD Media Awards are intended to recognize and honour media for 'fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community and the issues that affect their lives.' They also include comic books Earlier versions of the awards usually focused on the most mainstream portrayals, and often only credited[...]

This June brings National Pride Month, so to celebrate SYFY (along with USA Network) is partnering with the leading non-profit LGBTQ+ advocacy organization GLAAD, for a month-long celebration of representation Starting next week, viewers will be treated to Pride-themed marathons of series Wynonna Earp, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Vagrant Queen; SYFY FANGRRLS podcasts, specials, and[...]

Prior to Tuesday night's charity performance of The Prom for the Hetrick-Martin Institute, GLAAD, and the Trevor Project at NYC's Longacre Theatre, Murphy made the announcement – though it is still not clear if he will write, produce, or both. Nathan Johnson View this post on Instagram. From director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw and loosely based on a real-life incident,[...]

And it is no surprise that, with Bohemian Rhapsody being an award-winning hit, this homophobic smear piece has been conveniently timed to take advantage of its success." Today, the GLAAD Awards released a statement revealing the organization's decision to remove Bohemian Rhapsody's Outstanding Film nomination GLAAD cites Singer's response to the new allegations as the reason: "In light of the[...]

BOOM! Studios announced its schedule for San Diego Comic-Con, and the publisher will be teaming up with advocacy group GLAAD for a panel called Entertainment is LGBTQ Featuring guests such as Emily Andras, Lilah Sturges, Marguerite Bennet, Noah Hayes, and "more," the panel takes place on Thursday, July 19th and will "present an in-depth roundtable[...]

In releasing its sixth annual Studio Responsibility Index, media monitoring organization GLAAD has called on major movie studios to ensure that at least 20% of movies include characters that are LGBTQ by 2021, a blog post on the organization's website reports. That target would see an increase from 12.8%, or 14 of the 109 releases from major studios[...]

Hosted by Bryan Pittard of Flame On! Podcast with a panel including Sina Grace, Kris Anka, Mariko Tamaki, Megan Townsend of GLAAD and Marc Andreyko. Yehl introduced Pittard to host the panel, and after introductions starts the conversation with Yehl about coming out in the media Yehl discussed living in a conservative family and working in[...]

Syfy and IDW's television series Wynonna Earp has a strong following among the LGBTQ community (thanks in part to the pairing of Waverly Earp and Officer Nicole Haught) and are participating in GLAAD's annual anti-bullying campaign to support LGBTQ youth by "going purple" on social media and spreading awareness Cast members Melanie Scrofano, Tim Rozon, Katherine[...]

The BOOM! Studios fantasy/adventure series won for Outstanding Comic at the 2016 GLAAD Media Awards  The awards honor outstanding portrayals of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities through all forms of media This is the second time the series had been nominated, but their first win. Others nominees in the category were: Angela: Queen of Hel; Harley[...]

The GLAAD Media Awards "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives." They have often awarded and rewarded comic books for this However, they have been accused of leaning towards the most mainstream popular rather than what critics may see[...]

Instead he talked to the media organisation and pressure group GLAAD to work through the issues being addressed, and released this statement. I thought long and hard before writing this response, with the time it's taken me to do so I fear having been misinterpreted as indifference on my part to the ire this sequence has caused[...]

These are the comic book nominations for the 2015 GLAAD Media Awards, recognising the portrayal "fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives". The awards recognise the writers rather than the artists, and also focus on the prominence of the books. Hawkeye, written by Matt Fraction[...]

GLAAD has announced its nominees for its 2014 awards for the treatment of gay characters and themes, including for comic books The awards usually favour the mainstream familiar comic books over the more personal works But it makes for an entertaining list. They also credit the writers over the artist, with the following nominee list. Batwoman, written[...]

Kevin Keller, published by Archie Comics and created by Dan Parent has won the GLAAD prize for Outstanding Comic Book. The GLAAD awards celebrate LGBT portrayals in the mass media, and were presented at the weekend in San Francisco at the Hilton Union Square Other nominations included Astonishing X-Men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batwoman and Earth[...]

This year's nominees for the GLAAD Awards, which " recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives" go to the usual array of mainstream direct market titles. Astonishing X-Men by Marjorie Liu Marvel Batwoman by W Haden Blackman, J.H[...]

Batwoman won another GLAAD award for DC Comics this year, under the title Outstanding Comic Book in New York Other nominated comic books were Avengers: The Children's Crusade, Secret Six, Veronica Presents: Kevin Keller and X-Factor. This is a second win for writer/artist JH Williams III, who won two years ago with Greg Rucka for Detective[...]