# GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Individual Episode

The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Individual Episode was one of the annual GLAAD Media Awards which, from 1998 to 2020, was offered to the best LGBT-related episode of a television series without a regular LGBT character. It was awarded jointly to multiple recipients twice, in 2006 and 2012.

## Winners and nominations
### 1990s

| Year | Program | Episode | Network |
| 1998 |
| 1998 | The Simpsons | "Homer's Phobia" | Fox |
| 1998 | HBO Comedy Half-Hour | "Drop Dead Gorgeous (A Tragicomedy): The Power of HIV-Positive Thinking" | HBO |
| 1998 | The Practice | "Civil Rights" | ABC |
| 1998 | South Park | "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" | Comedy Central |
| 1998 | Xena: Warrior Princess | "Here She Comes, Miss Amphipolis" | Syndicated |
| 1999 |
| 1999 | Tracey Takes On... | "Religion" | HBO |
| 1999 | ER | "Stuck on You" | NBC |
| 1999 | That '70s Show | "Eric's Buddy" | Fox |
| 1999 | Welcome to Paradox | "Options" | Sci-Fi |

### 2000s

| Year | Program | Episode | Network |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Popular | "Wild Wild Mess" | The WB |
| 2000 | Any Day Now | "Family Is Family" | Lifetime |
| 2000 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | "The Sissy Duckling" | HBO |
| 2000 | L.A. Doctors | "Been There, Done That" | CBS |
| 2000 | Party of Five | "I'll Show You Mine" | Fox |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | Ed | "The Whole Truth" | NBC |
| 2001 | Chicago Hope | "Boys Will Be Girls" | CBS |
| 2001 | Family Law | "Are You My Father?" | CBS |
| 2001 | Freaks and Geeks | "The Little Things" | NBC |
| 2001 | Gideon's Crossing | "Freak Show" | ABC |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Resurrection Blvd. | "Saliendo" | Showtime |
| 2002 | Family Law | "Gay Divorcee" | CBS |
| 2002 | The Guardian | "The Men from the Boys" | CBS |
| 2002 | Judging Amy | "Between the Wanting and the Getting" | CBS |
| 2002 | Law & Order | "Phobia" | NBC |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Resurrection Blvd. | "Pararse" | Showtime |
| 2003 | Crossing Jordan | "Scared Straight" | NBC |
| 2003 | George Lopez | "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Honey?" | ABC |
| 2003 | Grounded for Life | "Relax!" | Fox |
| 2003 | King of the Hill | "My Own Private Rodeo" | Fox |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Boston Public | "Chapter Fifty-Eight" | Fox |
| 2004 | The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire | "Sleeping Lions" | CBS |
| 2004 | Cold Case | "A Time to Hate" | CBS |
| 2004 | Girlfriends | "And Baby Makes Four" | UPN |
| 2004 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | "Fallacy" | NBC |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Jack & Bobby | "The Lost Boys" | The WB |
| 2005 | Cold Case | "Daniela" | CBS |
| 2005 | Cold Case | "It's Raining Men" | CBS |
| 2005 | Strong Medicine | "The Real World Rittenhouse" | Lifetime |
| 2005 | Two and a Half Men | "Old Flame with a New Wick" | CBS |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | Cold Case | "Best Friends" | CBS |
| 2006 | My Name Is Earl | "Pilot" | NBC |
| 2006 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | "Alien" | NBC |
| 2006 | What I Like About You | "Someone's in the Kitchen with Daddy" | The WB |
| 2006 | Without a Trace | "Transitions" | CBS |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Grey's Anatomy | "Where the Boys Are" | ABC |
| 2007 | American Dad! | "Lincoln Lover" | Fox |
| 2007 | Cold Case | "Forever Blue" | CBS |
| 2007 | How I Met Your Mother | "Single Stamina" | CBS |
| 2007 | 30 Rock | "Blind Date" | NBC |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Boston Legal | "Do Tell" | ABC |
| 2008 | Cold Case | "Boy Crazy" | CBS |
| 2008 | Kyle XY | "Free to Be You and Me" | ABC Family |
| 2008 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | "Sin" | NBC |
| 2008 | My Name Is Earl | "The Gangs of Camden County" | NBC |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | The New Adventures of Old Christine | "Unidentified Funk" | CBS |
| 2009 | ER | "Tandem Repeats" | NBC |
| 2009 | Ghost Whisperer | "Slam" | CBS |
| 2009 | Life on Mars | "My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi" | ABC |
| 2009 | Supernatural | "Ghostfacers" | The CW |

### 2010s

| Year | Program | Episode | Network |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Parks and Recreation | "Pawnee Zoo" | NBC |
| 2010 | The Listener | "Lisa Says" | NBC |
| 2010 | Private Practice | "Homeward Bound" | ABC |
| 2010 | Private Practice | "Wait and See" | ABC |
| 2010 | Supernatural | "The Real Ghostbusters" | The CW |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | 30 Rock | "Klaus and Greta" | NBC |
| 2011 | Bored to Death | "Escape from the Castle!" | HBO |
| 2011 | Drop Dead Diva | "Queen of Mean" | Lifetime |
| 2011 | Law & Order | "Innocence" | NBC |
| 2011 | Law & Order: UK | "Samaritan" | BBC America |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Drop Dead Diva | "Prom" | Lifetime |
| 2012 | Hot in Cleveland | "Beards" | TV Land |
| 2012 | Are We There Yet? | "The Boy Has Style" | TBS |
| 2012 | Man Up! | "Acceptance" | ABC |
| 2012 | NCIS | "Recruited" | CBS |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Raising Hope | "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do" | Fox |
| 2013 | Drop Dead Diva | "Family Matters" | Lifetime |
| 2013 | Franklin & Bash | "L'affaire Du Coeur" | TNT |
| 2013 | The Mentalist | "Ruby Slippers" | CBS |
| 2013 | Touch | "Lost and Found" | Fox |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Elementary | "Snow Angels" | CBS |
| 2014 | Drop Dead Diva | "Secret Lives" | Lifetime |
| 2014 | Necessary Roughness | "There's the Door" | USA |
| 2014 | The Soul Man | "Bride and Prejudice" | TV Land |
| 2014 | Supernatural | "LARP and the Real Girl" | The CW |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Drop Dead Diva | "Identity Crisis" | Lifetime |
| 2015 | Doctor Who | "Deep Breath" | BBC America |
| 2015 | Elementary | "No Lack of Void" | CBS |
| 2015 | Good Luck Charlie | "Down a Tree" | Disney Channel |
| 2015 | Playing House | "Let's Have a Baby" | USA |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Royal Pains | "The Prince of Nucleotides" | USA |
| 2016 | Black-ish | "Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell" | ABC |
| 2016 | The Carmichael Show | "Gender" | NBC |
| 2016 | NCIS | "We Build, We Fight" | CBS |
| 2016 | NCIS: New Orleans | "Rock-A-Bye-Baby" | CBS |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Black Mirror | "San Junipero" | Netflix |
| 2017 | Black-ish | "Johnson & Johnson" | ABC |
| 2017 | Drunk History | "Bar Fights" | Comedy Central |
| 2017 | Easy | "Vegan Cinderella" | Netflix |
| 2017 | The Loud House | "Attention Deficit" | Nickelodeon |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Master of None | "Thanksgiving" | Netflix |
| 2018 | Legion | "Chapter 8" | FX |
| 2018 | Pure Genius | "Grace" | CBS |
| 2018 | Easy | "Lady Cha Cha" | Netflix |
| 2018 | Room 104 | "The Missionaries" | HBO |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | The Guest Book | "Someplace Other Than Here" | TBS |
| 2019 | Fresh Off the Boat | "King in the North" | ABC |
| 2019 | Fuller House | "Prom" | Netflix |
| 2019 | The Good Doctor | "She" | ABC |
| 2019 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | "Service" | NBC |

### 2020s

| Year | Program | Episode | Network |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Dolly Parton's Heartstrings | "Two Doors Down" | Netflix |
| 2020 | Drunk History | "Love" | Comedy Central |
| 2020 | Law & Order: SVU | "Murdered at a Bad Address" | NBC |
| 2020 | Easy | "Spontaneous Combusion" | Netflix |
| 2020 | Watchmen | "This Extraordinary Being" | HBO |