The organization 'Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation' named around 116 nominees for exceptional coverage of gay issues. They nominated works from different categories like film, television, documentary, music, theater, comic books and journalism. The 21st 'GLAAD' awards will be presented at three ceremonies, which will begin on March 13 in New York.
Lady GaGa and Tom Ford’s debut film tells the story of a gay professor. The other nominated film by director Lee Daniel, “Precious" is based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” is about a struggling Harlem teen who befriends a lesbian teacher. These two films are among nominees in the outstanding film category of GLAAD Awards.
The nominees for outstanding singer category are New York singer Lady Gaga, U.S. indie band Gossip, U.S. singer Brandi Carlile as well as former American Idol runner up Adam Lambert, who last year told Rolling Stone magazine he was gay following months of speculation.
The television shows that bagged nominations are "True Blood,” “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Mad Men,” “Skins,” “Glee” and “The United States of Tara.”
GLAAD Award is honoring actress Cynthia Nixon of the TV series “Sex and the City” with a special award for openly advocating gay issues and gay marriage on media.
The President of the organization Jarrett Barrios said the awards were designed to reward news coverage and entertainment programming that did not present gay and lesbian's in stereotypes images. He also said "Words and images matter."
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