18th GLAAD Media Awards
# 18th GLAAD Media Awards

18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (2007) were presented at four separate ceremonies: March 26 in New York City; April 14 in Los Angeles; April 28 in San Francisco; and May 10 in Miami. The awards were presented to honor "fair, accurate and inclusive" representations of gay individuals in the media.

## Special recognition

* Excellence in Media Award: Patti LaBelle
* Vito Russo Award: Tom Ford
* Vanguard Award: Jennifer Aniston
* Stephen F. Kolzak Award: Martina Navratilova
* Visibilidad Award: Jaime Bayly
* Davidson/Valentini Award: Robert Gant
* Pioneer Award: Kate Clinton
* Pioneer Award: Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin
* Special Recognition: The Colbert Report

## Award Nominees

(winners are bolded)

### Film

* OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
   * Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
   * The Night Listener (Miramax Films)
   * Running with Scissors (TriStar Pictures)
   * Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Columbia Pictures)
   * V for Vendetta (Warner Bros. Pictures)
* OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
   * The History Boys (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
   * Imagine Me & You (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
   * Quinceañera (Sony Pictures Classics)
   * Shortbus (THINKFilm)
   * Summer Storm (Regent Releasing)

### Television

* OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
   * Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
   * The L Word (Showtime)
   * Hex (BBC America)
   * The Sopranos (HBO)
   * South of Nowhere (The N)
* OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
   * Desperate Housewives (ABC)
   * The Office (NBC)
   * So NoTORIous (VH1)
   * Ugly Betty (ABC)
* OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular gay character)
   * "Blind Date" - 30 Rock (NBC)
   * "Forever Blue" - Cold Case (CBS)
   * "Lincoln Lover" - American Dad! (Fox)
   * "Single Stamina" - How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
   * "Where the Boys Are" - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
* OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
   * A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (Lifetime)
   * Wedding Wars (A&E)
* OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
   * All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (HBO)
   * Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer (HBO)
   * My Mums Used to be Men (BBC America)
   * One Punk Under God (Sundance Channel)
   * This Film is Not Yet Rated (IFC Films)
* OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
   * The Amazing Race 10 (CBS)
   * Big Brother: All-Stars (CBS)
   * Project Runway (Bravo)
   * Queer Eye (Bravo)
   * Work Out (Bravo)
* OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
   * All My Children (ABC)
   * As the World Turns (CBS)
   * General Hospital (ABC)
   * Passions (NBC)
* OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE
   * "Hate Crimes" - The Tyra Banks Show
   * "The Murder of a Boy Named Gwen" - The Montel Williams Show
   * "Transgender: A Struggle for Acceptance" - The Montel Williams Show
   * "Transsexuals" - The Tyra Banks Show
   * "Wives Confess They are Gay" - The Oprah Winfrey Show
* OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE
   * "Forbidden Love" - Nightline (ABC)
   * "Lesbians in the Ministry" - To the Contrary (PBS)
   * "Transgender People" - The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch (CNBC)
   * "Under the Rainbow" - NOW (PBS)
   * "Will Gay Debate Tear Church Apart?" - Larry King Live (CNN)
* OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWS SEGMENT
   * "The Equality Ride" - MTV News: The Amazing Break (MTV)
   * "Military Expulsion" - Good Morning America Weekend (ABC)
   * "Same-Sex Marriage" - Live From… (CNN)
   * "Secret Love: Gay Life in the Middle East" - Inside the Middle East (CNN)
   * "Transgender Teen" - Paula Zahn Now (CNN)

### Print

* OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
   * "Even Deep in Dixie, Gays Sense Inexorable Shift Toward Acceptance" by David Crary (Associated Press)
   * "Fathers in the Making" by Kevin Sack (Los Angeles Times)
   * "Gay Teens Are Using the System" by Seema Mehta (Los Angeles Times)
   * "Hill Republicans Air Out the Closet" by Jose Antonio Vargas (The Washington Post)
   * "Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn't Clear" by Patricia Leigh Brown (The New York Times)
* OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
   * Alfred Doblin (Herald News, Bergen, NJ)
   * Dana Milbank (The Washington Post)
   * Deb Price (The Detroit News)
   * Frank Rich (The New York Times)
   * Dan Savage (The New York Times)
* OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
   * The Boston Globe
   * The Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia)
   * The Honolulu Advertiser
   * Los Angeles Times
   * USA Today
* OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
   * "I am Woman" by D. Cookie Fields as told to Michelle Burford (Essence)
   * "The Out Crowd" by Jason Newman (Urb)
   * "The Pressure to Cover" by Kenji Yoshino (The New York Times Magazine)
   * "Queer Inc." by Marc Gunther (Fortune)
   * "What if it's (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?" by Elizabeth Weil (The New York Times Magazine)
* OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
   * AsianWeek
   * The Chronicle of Higher Education
   * CosmoGIRL!
   * Details
   * People
* OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
   * "BV Q&A with Julian Bond: Why this Civil Rights Icon Embraces Gay Rights" by Angela Bronner (BlackVoices.aol.com)
   * "The Glass Closet" by Alex Koppelman (Salon.com)
   * "Homosexual and 'Passionate About Islam'" by Jennifer Carlile (MSNBC.com)
   * "How Many Strikes?" by Erin Marie Daly (IntheFray.com)
   * "Is Fear the Best Way to Fight AIDS?" by Kai Wright (TheNation.com)
* OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA
   * "AIDS at 25: A Multimedia Perspective" (Newsweek.com)
   * "Being a Gay Black Man" by Ben de la Cruz, Pierre Kattar, and Sholnn Z. Freeman (WashingtonPost.com)
   * "Mookey's Story" by Carolyn Goossen, Daffodil Altan, and Min Lee (NewAmericaMedia.org)
* OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
   * 52 by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid (DC Comics)
   * American Virgin by Steven T. Seagle (Vertigo/DC Comics)
   * Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
   * Manhunter by Marc Andreyko (DC Comics)
   * Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn (Vertigo/DC Comics)
* OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING – ELECTRONIC
   * "Bad Weather" - Orbitz
   * "Ejection" - United Church of Christ
   * "Gangster of Love" - Axe Clix
   * "Living Room" - IKEA
* OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING – PRINT
   * "Bear" - Marc Jacobs
   * "Gay by God" - Rehoboth Temple Christ Conscious Church
   * "Jack/Jack" - Paris Las Vegas
   * "Madame President" - Svedka Vodka
   * "Suits" - Paris Las Vegas

### Music & Theater

* OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
   * The Ditty Bops, Moon Over the Freeway
   * Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds
   * Peaches, Impeach My Bush
   * Pet Shop Boys, Fundamental
   * Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah
* OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER
   * Bluebonnet Court, by Zsa Zsa Gershick
   * Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley
   * A Man of No Importance, book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
   * Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, by Matthew Bourne, music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
   * Play it Cool, book by Larry Dean Harris, music by Phillip Swann, lyrics by Mark Winkler
* OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF–BROADWAY
   * 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Kate Moira Ryan with Judy Gold
   * The History Boys by Alan Bennett
   * The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane
   * Measure for Pleasure by David Grimm
   * by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell
* OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF–OFF BROADWAY
   * 33 to Nothing by Grant James Varjas
   * Candy and Dorothy by David Johnston
   * Dina Martina: Sedentary Lady by Grady West
   * Kiss and Cry by Tom Rowan
   * Sinner by Ben Payne
