# 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