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GLAAD Announces Nominees
for 13th Annual Media Awards


6,000 Will Attend in New York, Los Angeles & San Francisco

Absolut Vodka Honors Fair, Accurate LGBT Coverage/Images

Compiled by GayToday
Courtesy of GLAAD

Los Angeles, California--The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the nominees for its 13th Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented by Absolut Vodka.

The awards will take place in three ceremonies to be held in New York City on April 1, 2002 at the New York Marriott Marquis; in Los Angeles on April 13 at the Kodak Theater at Hollywood & Highland; and in San Francisco on June 1 at the Westin St. Francis.

John Cameron Mitchell stars in the GLAAD nominated film Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The GLAAD Media Awards were created to honor individuals and projects in the media and entertainment industries for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. Nominees were published, released or broadcast between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, 2001. Nearly 1,000 projects were considered in 26 categories.

This year, GLAAD expects more than 6,000 to attend the three ceremonies, raising more than $2.5 million for the organization's work. Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a national organization with a staff of 32, an annual budget of $5.3 million, and offices in Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Presenting Sponsor Absolut Vodka is celebrating its 13th year with the GLAAD Media Awards and its 21st year in the LGBT community. More than 100 other corporate sponsors are showing their support, including the David Bohnett Foundation and the Michael Palm Foundation as Platinum Underwriters. American Airlines (GLAAD's official airline), Terry K. Watanabe Charitable Trust and Wells Fargo Bank join the Media Awards as the event's Underwriters. AT&T is also a major sponsor of the event. Additional sponsors include Jehan Agrama and Dwora Fried; American Movie Classics; Bloomberg News; Carsey Werner Mandabach; Eddie Bauer; Hansen, Jacobsen, Teller, Hoberman, Newman & Warren/Hertz & Goldring, LLP; Harmony Gold; Michael Huffington; Miramax; Polo Ralph Lauren; Prime Access; Sundance Channel; and Andrew Tobias & Charles Nolan.

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For further information and to purchase tickets please contact Levy, Pazanti & Associates at (888) 655-6529 or (310) 201-5033. General event and ticket information can also be found at GLAAD Online, www.glaad.org.
13TH ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS NOMINATIONS LIST OUTSTANDING FILM - LIMITED RELEASE
Big Eden (Jour de Fete Films)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Fine Line Features)
Nico and Dani (Avatar Films)
Punks (Urbanworld Films)
Songcatcher (Lions Gate Films)

OUTSTANDING FILM - WIDE RELEASE
The Mexican (DreamWorks Pictures)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
The Ellen Show (CBS)
Sex and the City (HBO)
Some of My Best Friends (CBS)
Will & Grace (NBC)

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (UPN)
The Education of Max Bickford (CBS)
ER (NBC)
Queer As Folk (Showtime)
Six Feet Under (HBO)

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (IN A SERIES WITHOUT A REGULAR GAY CHARACTER)
"Between the Wanting and the Getting" Judging Amy (CBS)
"Gay Divorcee" Family Law (CBS)
"The Men from the Boys" The Guardian (CBS)
"Phobia" Law & Order (NBC)
"Saliendo" Resurrection Blvd. (Showtime)

OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE
Anatomy of a Hate Crime (MTV)
Armistead Maupin's Further Tales of the City (Showtime)
A Glimpse of Hell (FX)
Stranger Inside (HBO)
What Makes a Family (Lifetime)

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
5 Girls (PBS)
American High (PBS)
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (IFC Films)
Paragraph 175 (HBO)
Scout's Honor (PBS)

OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
All My Children (ABC)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM
"The Children Speak" 20/20 (ABC)
"The Face of AIDS" The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS)
"Hate in the Hallways" Criminal (MTV)
"Mark Bingham" Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
"The Matthew Shepard Story" American Justice (A&E)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"Gay Indians Had a Place in Tribe" by Gwen Florio (The Denver Post)
"In and Out in Roanoke" by Liza Mundy (Washington Post)
"The Outsiders" by Sara Steffens (Contra Costa Times)
"Positive Love" by Jennifer Mathieu (The Houston Press)
"Two Men and a Baby" by Louis Bayard (Washington Post)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Richard Goldstein (The Village Voice)
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Deb Price (The Detroit News)
Neil Steinberg (Chicago Sun-Times)
Debbie Woodell (Philadelphia Daily News)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
Cortez Journal
Newsday
The Roanoke Times
USA Today
The Village Voice

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
"Backlash" by Michael Riley (American Journalism Review)
"Does a Sex Change Mean the End of the Relationship?"
by Sara Corbett (The New York Times Magazine)
"The FiremenÕs Friar" by Jennifer Senior (New York Magazine)
"Growing Up Gay" by Matthew T. Everett (Metro Pulse)
"A Question of Identity" by Malcolm Venable (Vibe)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
AsianWeek
The Chronicle of Higher Education Newsweek The New York Times Magazine

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
"20 Years of Tears and Evolution" by Bryan Robinson, ABCNEWS.com
"The Crying Game" by Nina Siegal, Salon.com
"Gay and Gray" by Sarah Pihl, WNYC.org
"Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays" by Bill Konigsberg, ESPN.com
"Straight Talk" by Patrice Wingert, Newsweek.MSNBC.com

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM OVERALL COVERAGE
ABCNEWS.com
Newsweek.MSNBC.com
Salon.com

OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING ELECTRONIC
"Class of '76" John Hancock Financial Services (TV)
"Switcheroo" Miller Lite (TV)

OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING PRINT
"Absolut GLAAD" Absolut Vodka
"Not Really His Girlfriend" Mercedes-Benz
"Proposal" Skyy Vodka
"Puppy" Chandon

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ALBUM
Play It Cool, Lea DeLaria (Warner Bros. Records)
Poses, Rufus Wainwright (DreamWorks Records)
Secret Music: A Songbook, David Del Tredici (Composers Recordings, Inc.)
Skin, Melissa Etheridge (Island)
That's Not What I Heard, The Gossip (Kill Rock Stars)

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse Comics)
Green Lantern (DC Comics)
Strangers in Paradise (Abstract Studio)
Top 10 (America's Best Comics/WildStorm)
User (Vertigo/DC Comics)

OUTSTANDING COMIC STRIP
Doonesbury
For Better or For Worse

OUTSTANDING L.A. THEATER PRODUCTION
The Breakup Notebook
| Glorious Wounds...She's Damaged
The Lady Who Loved
The Laramie Project
Looking for Normal

OUTSTANDING N.Y. THEATER PRODUCTION BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY:
Dogeaters
Dragapella! Starring the Kinsey Sicks
Four
The Invention of Love
Resident Alien

OUTSTANDING N.Y. THEATER PRODUCTION OFF-OFF-BROADWAY:
Dirty Stuff
Go-Go Re‡l
In On It
Shequida's Opera for Dummies
Up Your Ass


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