Tip Sheet: Diversity, Facts, and Figures for the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards | GLAAD

Please find a press release with the complete list of nominees for the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at www.glaad.org/releases.

Additional facts, figures, and details about the diversity of this year’s nominees follows.

TOTAL NUMBER OF NOMINEES: 310

(280 English, 30 Spanish-language)

TOTAL NUMBER OF GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS CATEGORIES: 33

(29 English, 4 Spanish-language)

CRITERIA FOR NOMINATION:

GLAAD Media Awards nominees are selected using the following four criteria:

• Fair, Accurate, and Inclusive Representations – Rather than portraying the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community using broad stereotypes, the project deals with the characters or themes in a fair, accurate, and multi-dimensional manner. Inclusive speaks to the importance of having the diversity of the LGBTQ community represented in our nominees.
• Boldness and Originality – The project breaks new ground by exploring LGBTQ subject matter in non-traditional ways, and handles the LGBTQ content in a fresh and original manner.
• Impact – The media project dramatically increases the cultural dialogue about LGBTQ issues, or reaches an audience that is not regularly exposed to LGBTQ images and issues. The project has significant cultural impact.
• Overall Quality – A project of extremely high quality adds significance to the images and issues portrayed and draws more viewers or readers to the material. Fair, accurate, and inclusive images may be less impactful if they are part of a poor-quality project.

FACTS ABOUT THE NOMINEES:

In the entertainment categories, streaming services saw a total of 63 nominees, with cable receiving 27 nominations and broadcast receiving 10 nominations. In the journalism categories, streaming services saw a total of 9 nominees, with cable receiving 11 nominees, and broadcast receiving 28 nominees.

Across all categories, Netflix scored the most nominations of any network, outlet or platform, with a total of 27 nominees, followed by ABC with a total of 10 nominations. Amazon Prime Video received 9 nominations, Hulu and CBS received 8 nominations each, while NBC and MSNBC received 6 each.

See below for a detailed breakdown of all networks, outlets or platforms with multiple nominations.

During a year when lawmakers across the U.S. introduced a record-breaking number of bills targeting transgender youth and access to transgender healthcare, many of the nominees at the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards centered transgender people and issues in timely, nuanced, and empowering ways.

• Of the 30 television shows nominated across Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Drama Series, and Outstanding New TV Series, 10 feature trans and/or nonbinary characters, including:, 9-1-1 Lone Star, The Chi, Doctor Who, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Good Trouble, Our Flag Means Death, Quantum Leap, Sex Education, Somebody Somewhere and With Love.
• Other nominated shows and films featuring trans and/or nonbinary people or characters include: I Am Jazz, Joyland, L’immensità, Love Trip: Paris, Monica, Next in Fashion, Queer Eye, Runs in the Family, RuPaul’s Drag Race and TRANSWorld Atlanta.
• Seven of the 10 documentaries nominated for Outstanding Documentary features trans and/or nonbinary people, including: Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate, Kokomo City, Orlando, My Political Biography, Rainbow Rishta, The Stroll, and UYRA – The Rising Forest.
• Three nominees in the Children’s and Kids & Family Programming categories featured trans and/or nonbinary characters: The Dragon Prince, Moon Girl and the Devil Dinosaur, and Heartstopper.
• Five of the 10 games nominated for Outstanding Video Game also feature trans and/or nonbinary characters, including: Baldur’s Gate, Goodbye Volcano, Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, Thirsty Suitors and Too Hot to Handle 2
• Thirty talk show and journalism nominees feature trans people and/or highlighted issues affecting the trans community. Of the categories, Online Journalism – Video or Multimedia had the strongest majority, with 8 of the 10 nominees featuring trans people or issues. Included among the nominees: “Cynthia Nixon and Kim Petras” Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo), “Elliot Page Opens Up In New Memoir: ‘It Felt Like The Right Time’” The View (ABC), “Trace Lysette & Patricia Clarkson, Laverne Cox” The Kelly Clarkson Show (syndicated), “Unapologetically Me” Tamron Hall (syndicated), “11th Hour: Transgender Athletes and What People Don’t Understand” The 11th Hour (MSNBC), “Geena Rocero Talks About Her New Memoir ‘Horse Barbie’ and the Power of Living Unapologetically” CBS Mornings (CBS), “CBS Reports: A Nation in Transition” CBS News (CBS), “Freedom to Exist” Soul of a Nation (ABC), “Our America: Who I’m Meant to Be – Episode 3” (ABC Owned Television Stations), “Proud Voices: A NY1 Special” (Spectrum News NY1), “VICE Special Report – Out Loud // Big Freedia Presents: Young Queer Artists To Look Out For” (Vice News), “José Díaz-Balart Reports: A Texas Mother’s Fight: the Case for Gender-Affirming Care” (MSNBC), “One-on-One with Eureka O’Hara” The Reid Out (MSNBC), “As Drag Bans Proliferate, Maren Morris Goes Deep With Drag’s Biggest Stars on Why the Show Must Go On” by Stephen Daw (Billboard), “Black Queer History is American History” by Myeshia Price (TIME), “‘But Most of All I’m Human’: These 3 Transgender Teens Prove Identity Stretches Beyond One Label” by Susan Miller (USA TODAY), “Kim Petras Is Breaking the Mold” by Jeff Nelson (People), “Pop Icons Are ‘Mothers’ Now. The LGBTQ Ballroom Scene Wants Credit.” by Samantha Cherry (The Washington Post), “Stop Bad Hair and Uglier Legislation (The New Classics)” by Karen Giberson (AC Magazine), “Transgender Youth: ‘Forced Outing’ Bills Make Schools Unsafe” by Hannah Schoenbaum and Sean Murphy (AP), “Book Banners Came for This Colorado Town. They Didn’t Anticipate Resistance.” By Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn (LGBTQNation.com), “Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims” by Timmy Broderick (ScientificAmerican.com), “Some Trans Kids Are Being Forced to Flee America for Their Safety” by Nico Lang (HuffPost.com), “7 Remarkable Trans Elders Share Lessons for the Next Generation” (them.us), “CANS Can’t Stand” (NewYorker.com), “Club Q: Stronger Together” (NFL.com), “‘I’ve Always Known I Was Different’: Four Trans People Share Their Stories” (WashingtonPost.com), “Michaela Jaé Rodriguez Calls Out the New York Times’ Anti-Trans Coverage & Advice for Trans Youth” (Variety.com), “Moving Isa” (Insider.com), “Protecting Pride: Resilience after Tragedy – Club Q Survivors Fight to Project Their Community” (GoodMorningAmerica.com), and “Transnational” (Vice.com)
• In both of the Spanish-language journalism categories, nominees featuring transgender and/or nonbinary people held a majority – eight out of ten for Online Journalism Article, and three out of five for Online Journalism – Video or Multimedia. For Online Journalism Article those nominees are: “Abogan por una política pública contra la violencia hacia la comunidad trans en Puerto Rico” por Carolina Gracia (ElVocero.com), “La activista trans que sepulta a sus amigas olvidadas: ‘Los primeros cuerpos los velaba yo sola, solita’” por Daniel Alonso Viña (ElPais.com), “El eterno desafío de ser un hombre o mujer trans en El Salvador” por María Teresa Hernández (APnews.com), “Familias latinas con menores trans temen a nuevas leyes que limitan el acceso a tratamientos médicos: ‘Es lo que ha mantenido a mi hija viva’” por Anagilmara Vílchez y Lourdes Hurtado (Telemundo.com), “‘Hemos huido de algo muy cruel’: las familias que buscan una vida mejor para sus hijos transgénero en otros estados de EE.UU.” por Leire Ventas (BBC.com), “Personas mayores LGBTQIA+ ‘tienen que regresar a un clóset para poder buscar vivienda’” por David Cordero Mercado y Joaquín A. Rosado Lebrón (PeriodismoInvestigativo.com & ElNuevoDia.com), “Reconocimiento a medias también es estigmatizante: RAE agrega ‘no binario/a’ a su diccionario” por Alex Orue (Homosensual.com), “Wendy Guevara, la ‘perdida’ que lo ganó todo” por Jonathan Saldaña y Mari Tere Lelo de Larrea (Quien.com)
• For Online Journalism – Video or Multimedia, those nominees are: “Conoce a la primera diputada negra y trans de Brasil” por Natalia Barrera Francis, Joyce García, David von Blohn, Paula Daibert y Claudia Escobar (Descoloniza – AJ+ Español), “La increíble historia de cómo ‘Mami Ruddys’ refugió a decenas de jóvenes LGBTIQ en Puerto Rico” por Marcos Billy Guzmán y Pablo Martínez Rodríguez (El Nuevo Día), “Villano Antillano cuenta todo de la realidad Queer de su música” por Yollotl Alvarado, René Barreto, Alfredo Castellanos, Sofía Reyes, Rai Irizarry, Arjun Demeyere, Luis Ramírez, Florencia Botinelli, Iván Juárez y Sebastian Fernández (GQ México y Latinoamérica)
• Only one Broadway show featured nonbinary characters in this year’s nominees, How to Dance in Ohio by Jacob Yandura and Rebekah Greer Melocik

A significant number of nominees at the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards also include impactful stories about LGBTQ people of color.

• In the film and documentary categories, those nominees include: American Fiction, Anyone But You, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, The Blackening, The Blue Caftan, Bottoms, Cassandro, Christmas on CHerry Lane, The Color Purple, Every Body, Friends & Family Christmas, Frybread Face and Me, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Joyland, Kokomo City, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Our Son, Rainbow Rishta, Red, White and Royal Blue, Runs in the Family, Rustin, Shortcomings, The Stroll, UYRA-Rising Forest and You’re Not Supposed to Be Here
• In the adult non-reality television categories, those nominees include: 9-1-1 Lone Star, And Just Like That…, Black Cake, The Chi, Chucky, Class, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Culprits, Deadlock, Doctor Who, Everything Now, Fall of the House of Usher, Fellow Travelers, Found, Good Omens, Good Trouble, Grey’s Anatomy, Harlem, The Last of Us, Riverdale, Our Flag Means Death, The Other Black Girl, Sex Education, Tore, What We Do in the Shadows, With Love, and
• Many LGBTQ artists of color and/or acts featuring LGBTQ artists of color were nominated for Outstanding Music Artist, and Outstanding Breakthrough Artist including: Billy Porter, David Archuleta, Ice Spice, Iniko, Jade LeMac, Janelle Monae, UMI, and Victoria Monet.
• In the Outstanding Broadway Production category, three of the five nominees prominently feature LGBTQ characters of colors, including Fat Ham, How to Dance in Ohio, and Once Upon a One More Time
• Of the 10 podcast nominees, 8 nominees prominently feature LGBTQ people of color as hosts or guests, including: Finding Fire Island, Gay and Afraid with Eric Sedeño, Las Culturistas, Queen of Hearts, Sibling Rivalry, That Conversation with Tarek Ali, and TransLash.
• The Reckoning, a blog focused on covering stories about Atlanta’s Black LGBTQ community, is nominated for Outstanding Blog.

Many of this year’s nominees feature powerful stories of lesbian, bisexual+, and queer women.

• Of the 10 nominees for Film: Wide Release, more than half (6) featured prominent lesbian, bisexual+, or queer female characters. Those nominees include: Anyone But You, Bottoms, The Color Purple, It’s A Wonderful Knife, Moving On and Shortcomings
• More than half (4) of the nominees for Kids & Family Programming – Live Action, featured prominent lesbian, bisexual+, or queer female characters. Those nominees include: Heartstopper, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, and XO, Kitty. Other Children’s and Kids & Family programming nominees that feature prominent lesbian, bisexual+, or queer female characters include: Craig of the Creek, The Dragon Prince, The Ghost and Molly McGee, Hailey’s On It! Summer Camp Island and Work It Out Wombats.
• Of the 30 television shows nominated across Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Drama Series, and Outstanding New TV Series, 15 feature lesbian, bisexual+, and queer women, including: And Just Like That…, The Buccaneers, The Chi, Deadlock, Good Omens, Good Trouble, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Harlem, Grey’s Anatomy, The Last of Us, The Other Black Girl Sex Education, Ted Lasso, and Yellowjackets
• In both the Outstanding Music Artist category and the Outstanding Breakthrough Musica Artist category, lesbian, bisexual+, and queer artists make up more than half of the nominees, including boygenius, Brandy Clark, Chappell Roan, G FLIP, Ice Spice, Iniko, Jade LeMac, Janelle Monae, Kim Petras, Miley Cyrus, Renee Rapp, Slayyyter, UMI, and Victoria Monet
• A majority of the nominees in the Spanish-language Scripted Television category also feature stories of lesbian, bisexual+, and queer women, including: 4 Estrellas, Las Pelotaris, and Sin Huellas

Each year, GLAAD presents non-competitive Special Recognition Awards to media projects that do not fit into one of the existing GLAAD Media Awards categories. For the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, GLAAD is presenting Special Recognition honors to eleven media projects that spotlighted diverse segments of the LGBTQ community in innovative ways. The projects include:

• The Dads (Netflix)
• Drag Latina (Revry / LATV)
• El Sabor de Navidad (Vix)
• Enamorándonos (Univision)
• Love in Gravity podcast
• Relighting Candles (Hulu)
• Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce (AMC Theatres)
• The Tennessee Holler
• Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story
• Wendy, perdida pero famosa (Vix)

GLAAD’s Barbara Gittings Award for Excellence in LGBTQ Media honors a pioneering individual, group, or community media outlet that has made a significant contribution to the development of LGBTQ media. The award is named after Barbara Gittings in recognition of her groundbreaking work as editor of The Ladder, and for her appearances as an out lesbian on national news media throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

This year, The Barbara Gittings Award for Excellence in LGBTQ Media will be presented to +Life Media. Founded in 2019 by AOMedia and journalist Karl Schmid, +Life is a multi-platform brand that produces content laser focused on ending HIV stigma, bringing the conversation about HIV into the mainstream and “turning positive into a plus.” The multi-platform brand is inspired by journalist and KABC-TV ‘On The Red Carpet’ host Karl Schmid’s own story of living with fear of having HIV due to the amount of ignorance and stigma surrounding the virus. Content that tells the stories of HIV advocates and people living with HIV, reports the latest research in HIV prevention and treatment, and encourages viewers to live their best lives runs across +Life social media channels and runs each week on ABC’s Localish.

DISTRIBUTORS, NETWORKS, SITES, ETC. WITH MULTIPLE NOMINEES:

Film Distributors
Magnolia Pictures: 3 [all entertainment]

Broadcast Networks [30 total]
ABC: 10  [2 entertainment, 8 journalism]
CBS: 8  [1 entertainment, 7 journalism]
NBC: 6  [3 entertainment, 3 journalism]

Telemundo: 5  [all journalism]
Univision: 4  [all journalism]
Fox: 1  [all entertainment]

Cable Networks [54 total]
MSNBC: 6  [all journalism]
Bravo: 4  [3 entertainment, 1 journalism]
Disney Channel: 3  [all entertainment]
HBO: 4  [all entertainment]
Showtime: 3  [all entertainment]
Cartoon Network: 2  [all entertainment]
CNN: 2  [all journalism]
Freeform: 2  [all entertainment]

Nickelodeon: 2  [all entertainment]
Disney Junior: 1  [all entertainment]

Streaming Networks [71 total]
Netflix: 27  [all entertainment]
Amazon Prime Video: 9  [all entertainment]
Hulu: 7  [6 entertainment, 1 journalism]
MAX: 5  [all entertainment]
Disney+: 4  [3 entertainment, 1 journalism]
Apple TV+: 2  [all entertainment]
NBC News NOW: 2 [all journalism]
Paramount+: 2 [all entertainment]

Record Labels
Atlantic Records: 2
Capitol Records: 2
Columbia Records: 2

Comic Book Publishers
DC Comics: 4
Dark Horse Comics: 3
Marvel Comics: 3