More than 1,500 New Yorkers gathered today in Manhattan to mourn the death of a 32 year-old gay man, who was shot down on Friday just blocks away from the historic Stonewall Inn in an apparent act of anti-gay bias.
COAD Related GLAAD Media Awards Nominees Announced!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 7:04pm by Kellee Terrell, COAD Media Strategist @ GLAAD
On Wednesday, January 13, GLAAD announced its nominees for our 21st annual GLAAD Media Awards. Here is a list of all of the COAD-related noms:
Outstanding Film (Wide Release):
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (Lionsgate Films)
Outstanding Drama Series:
True Blood (HBO)
Outstanding Reality Program:
The Amazing Race (CBS)
Making His Band (MTV)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (LOGO)
Outstanding Talk Show Episode:
“"Hell to Pay – Gay Teen Exorcism" The Tyra Banks Show (The CW)
"Sirdeaner Walker Interview" The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)
Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine
"Bullied to Death?" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
"Uganda Be Kidding Me" (series) The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Rev. Byron Williams (The Oakland Tribune)
Outstanding Magazine Article: 
"Either/Or: Sports, Sex and the Case of Caster Semenya" by Ariel Levy (The New Yorker)
"Trouble in Paradise" by Jeannine Amber (Essence)
Outstanding Digital Journalism Article
"On the Road to Refuge" by Pete Muller (ColorLines.com)
Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway
The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Watch GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios talk about the important work that GLAAD does and see all of the nominees.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ZQfPhJZA0&feature=player_embedded]
The Media Awards will take place on March 13 in New York, April 17 in Los Angeles and June 5 in San Francisco.