Submission Instructions

Submissions for the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards are now CLOSED.  Please check back in May 2009 for information about submitting material for the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards to be held in 2010.

Call for Submissions: 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented by IBM
 

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.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Eligibility period:  January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2008

Call for Submissions:  Entries are accepted at any time during the calendar year, before the submission deadline.

Submission deadline:  Materials must be received by December 1, 2008, 6:00 p.m. PT

Why is the submission deadline before the end of the eligibility period?:  GLAAD will consider media images which appear during the month of December.  However, we require that all media projects which appeared before December 1 be submitted by the December 1 deadline.  If you have a project that you know will appear during the month of December, please contact GLAAD at submissions@glaad.org to make special arrangements for submission.

Must a media project be submitted in order to be nominated?
Mainstream Media – GLAAD monitors mainstream media on a year-round basis as part of our work to fight defamation and promote fair, accurate, and inclusive LGBT images in the media.  This monitoring provides a pool of potential nominees for the volunteer juries to review.  The volunteer juries may choose to nominate LGBT images from these media outlets – even if the image is not submitted.

Media Outlets Created By and For an LGBT Audience – GLAAD does not monitor media created by and for the LGBT community for defamation – therefore we do not generate a pool of potential nominees.  Furthermore, the limited availability and distribution of this media means GLAAD is not physically able to monitor it.  Therefore ALL media outlets which are created by and for the LGBT community MUST submit their programming and journalism in order for it to be eligible for nomination.

Nominees announced: Nominees will be announced on January 27, 2009.

Award Recipients announced:  Award recipients are announced at each of the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented by IBM events:  New York on March 28, 2009; Los Angeles on April 18; and San Francisco on May 9.

Award Categories in Each City:  The award categories will be divided among the three cities.  In mid-February GLAAD will announce which awards will be given out onstage in each city.  (Due to the number of categories and limited amount of show time, not all awards will be announced onstage.)

HOW TO SUBMIT

Download an entry form and mail it with supporting materials to GLAAD.  You may not submit online, via e-mail or fax.  Further details about submitting an entry are provided on the entry form itself.

If you have additional questions after you have reviewed the entry form, please refer to the FAQ, or e-mail submissions@glaad.org.