28th GLAAD Media Awards

30th GLAAD Media Awards

Date| April 1, 2017 (2017-04-01)
May 6, 2017 (2017-05-06)
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The 28th GLAAD Media Awards was the 2017 annual presentation of the GLAAD Media Awards, presented by GLAAD honoring the 2016 season. The awards honor films, television shows, musicians and works of journalism that fairly and accurately represent the LGBT community and issues relevant to the community. GLAAD announced 115 nominees in 21 English-language categories and 41 Spanish-language nominees in 11 categories on January 31, 2017.[1] The awards were presented at ceremonies in Los Angeles on April 1, 2017[2] and New York on May 6, 2017.[3]

## Winners and nominees

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Winners are presented in bold.

### English-language categories

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Award  | Nominees

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Outstanding Film - Wide Release  |

* Moonlight
* Star Trek Beyond

Outstanding Film - Limited Release  |

* Other People
* The Handmaiden
* Naz & Maalik
* Spa Night
* Those People

Outstanding Comedy Series  |

* Transparent
* Brooklyn Nine-Nine
* Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
* Grace and Frankie
* Modern Family
* One Mississippi
* The Real O'Neals
* Steven Universe
* Survivor's Remorse
* Take My Wife

Outstanding Drama Series  |

* Shadowhunters
* The Fosters
* Grey's Anatomy
* Hap and Leonard
* How to Get Away with Murder
* The OA
* Orphan Black
* Shameless
* Supergirl
* Wynonna Earp

Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBT character)  |

* "San Junipero", Black Mirror
* "Attention Deficit", The Loud House
* "Bar Fights", Drunk History
* "Johnson & Johnson", Black-ish
* "Vegan Cinderella", Easy

Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series  |

* Eyewitness
* London Spy
* Looking: The Movie
* The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
* Vicious: The Finale

Outstanding Documentary  |

* Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
* Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
* Out of Iraq
* The Same Difference
* The Trans List

Outstanding Reality Program  |

* Strut
* Gaycation
* I Am Cait
* I Am Jazz
* The Prancing Elites Project

Outstanding Music Artist  |

* Tegan and Sara, Love You to Death
* Against Me!, Shape Shift with Me
* Blood Orange, Freetown Sound
* Brandy Clark, Big Day in a Small Town
* Tyler Glenn, Excommunication
* Ty Herndon, House on Fire
* Elton John, Wonderful Crazy Night
* Lady Gaga, Joanne
* Frank Ocean, Blonde
* Sia, This Is Acting

Outstanding Comic Book  |

* The Woods, written by James Tynion IV
* All-New X-Men, written by Dennis Hopeless
* Black Panther, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates
* DC Comics Bombshells, written by Marguerite Bennett
* Kim & Kim, written by Magdalene Visaggio
* Love is Love, anthology originated by Marc Andreyko
* Lumberjanes, written by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh
* Midnighter / Midnighter and Apollo, written by Steve Orlando
* Patsy Walker, A.K.A Hellcat!, written by Kate Leth
* Saga, written by Brian K. Vaughan

Outstanding Daily Drama  |

* The Bold and The Beautiful

Outstanding Talk Show Episode  |

* "Angelica Ross", The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
* "Cookie Johnson", Super Soul Sunday
* "North Carolina and Georgia Anti-LGBTQ Laws", Late Night with Seth Meyers
* "Tony Marrero, Orlando Shooting Survivor", The Ellen DeGeneres Show
* "Trey Pearson", The View

Outstanding Journalism Newsmagazine  |

* "Bingham", SC Featured
* "Church and States", VICE News Tonight
* "Gavin Grimm's Fight", VICE News Tonight
* "Life as Matt", E:60
* "Switching Teams", 60 Minutes

Outstanding Journalism Segment  |

* "Gay Community in U.S. 'Forged in Fire", The Rachel Maddow Show
* "Interview with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi", Anderson Cooper 360
* "Many in LGBT Community Fear Changes under Trump", NBC Nightly News
* "Terror in Orlando", PBS NewsHour
* "Troop Turnaround: U.S. Military Transgender Ban Ended by Pentagon", CBS This Morning

Outstanding Newspaper Article  |

* "Permission to Hate" by Elizabeth Leland, The Charlotte Observer
* "An LGBT Hunger Crisis" by Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times
* "Mid-South Couples Celebrate First Year of Marriage Equality, But Challenges Remain for LGBT Community" by Katie Fretland & Ron Maxey, The Commercial Appeal
* "Nowhere to Go: LGBT Youth on the Move" by Arielle Dreher, Jackson Free Press
* "Worthy of Survival" by Kathleen McGrory, Tampa Bay Times

Outstanding Magazine Article  |

* "HIV Mystery: Solved?" by Tim Murphy, The Nation
* "Battle of the Bathroom" by Michael Scherer, Time
* "The Official Coming-Out Party" by Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN The Magazine
* "On the Run" by Jacob Kushner, Vice Magazine
* "Rethinking Gender" by Robin Marantz Henig, National Geographic

Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage  |

* Teen Vogue
* The Advocate
* Cosmopolitan
* Seventeen
* Time

Outstanding Digital Journalism Article  |

* "After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos" by Daniel Wenger
* "105 Trans Women On American TV: A History and Analysis" by Riese Bernard
* "The Methodist Church May Split Over LGBT Issues. Meet the Lesbian Bishop Caught in the Middle" by Becca Andrews
* "These are the Queer Refugees Australia has Locked Up on a Remote Pacific Island" by J. Lester Feder
* "The Uncertain Olympic Future for Trans and Intersex Athletes" by Diana Tourjee

Outstanding Digital Journalism - Multimedia  |

* "Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives" by Meredith Talusan
* "Last Men Standing: AIDS Survivors Still Fighting for Their Lives" by Erin Allday
* "New Deep South: Kayla"
* "No Access: Young, Black & Positive"
* "Willing and Able: Employment as a Transgender New Yorker" by Jordi Oliveres & Santiago García Muñoz

Outstanding Blog  |

* Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
* I'm Still Josh
* Mombian
* My Fabulous Disease
* TransGriot

Special Recognition  |

* Her Story
* We've Been Around

## References

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1. ^ "GLAAD announces nominees for 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards". LGBT Weekly. Archived from the original on 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
2. ^ "GLAAD Awards 2017: The Complete List of Winners". etonline. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
3. ^ "GLAAD Awards 2017: The Complete List of Winners". Variety. 7 May 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-06.

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Competitive Awards|

* Outstanding Film – Wide Release
* Outstanding Film – Limited Release
* Outstanding Documentary
* Outstanding Comedy Series
* Outstanding Drama Series
* Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
* Outstanding Kids and Family Programming
* Outstanding Reality Program
* Outstanding Individual Episode
* Outstanding Comic Book
* Outstanding Music Artist
* Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist
* Outstanding Video Game

Special Awards|

* Davidson/Valentini Award
* Excellence in Media Award
* Golden Gate Award
* Stephen F. Kolzak Award
* Vanguard Award
* Vito Russo Award

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