NEW YORK — GLAAD Media Award recipients were announced in 24 media categories at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards held Saturday night in New York.
ABC’s Brothers & Sisters won Outstanding Drama Series, while Sigourney Weaver’s Lifetime movie Prayers for Bobby took home honors for Outstanding TV Movie or Mini-Series.
Other notable honorees included television personality Joy Behar, who accepted the Excellence in Media Award, and Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, who accepted the Vito Russo Award at the event, hosted by Alan Cumming.
Additional awards will be presented in Los Angeles on April 17 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, and in San Francisco on June 5 at the Westin St. Francis.
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
View gallery: GLAAD Media Awards 2010 Red Carpet Photos
English-Language Awards Announced in New York
• Outstanding Film-Limited Release: Little Ashes (Regent Releasing)
• Outstanding Individual Episode: “Pawnee Zoo” Parks and Recreation (NBC)
• Outstanding Daily Drama: One Life to Live (ABC)
• Outstanding Talk Show Episode: “Ellen DeGeneres and Her Wife, Portia de Rossi” The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)
• Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: “Uganda Be Kidding Me” (series) The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
• Outstanding Newspaper Article: “Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside” by Tara Parker-Pope (The New York Times)
• Outstanding Newspaper Columnist: Frank Rich (The New York Times)
• Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage: The New York Times
• Outstanding Magazine Article: “Coming Out in Middle School” by Benoit Denizet-Lewis (The New York Times Magazine)
• Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage: The Advocate
• Outstanding Comic Book: Detective Comics by Greg Rucka (DC Comics)
• Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off–Broadway: A Boy and His Soul by Colman Domingo
• Outstanding New York Theater: Off–Off Broadway: She Like Girls by Chisa Hutchinson
