2016 GLAAD Media Awards Nominees Include Harley Quinn, Midnighter, & More

GLAAD has announced the nominees for their 27th Annual Media Awards, recognizing “fair, accurate, and inclusive representations” of the LGBT community over the past year.

The nominees for this year’s Outstanding Comic Book category come from a variety of publishers. DC Comics’ Harley Quinn, by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin, John Timms, and Jed Dougherty. In 2015, Conner and Palmiotti confirmed on Twitter that Harley is romantically involved with fellow villain Poison Ivy, something fans have read as subtext since Quinn and Harley’s first pairing in Batman: The Animated Series. DC Comics declined to comment on the matter.

Also from DC Comics is Midnighter, by Steve Orlando, Aco, Hugh Petrus, Alec Morgan, and Stephen Mooney. The series follows the brutal brawler’s espionage adventures after his breakup with Apollo.

Marvel Comics’ Angela: Queen of Hel by Marguerite Bennett, Kim Jacinto, Israel Silva, and Stephanie Hans was also nominated, as was BOOM! Studios’ fan favorite Lumberjanes, by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carolyn Nowak, Brooke Allen, and Image Comics’ The Wicked + Divine, by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Kate Brown, and Tula Lotay.

Check out the full list of nominees across categories below.

OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE

• Carol (The Weinstein Company)
• The Danish Girl (Focus Features)
• Dope (Open Road Films)
• Freeheld (Lionsgate)
• Grandma (Sony Pictures Classics)

OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE

• 52 Tuesdays (Kino Lorber)
• Appropriate Behavior (Gravitas Ventures)
• Boy Meets Girl (Wolfe Video)
• Drunktown’s Finest (Nehst Studios)
• Tangerine (Magnolia Pictures)

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

• Arrow (The CW)
• Black Sails (Starz)
• Empire (FOX)
• The Fosters (ABC Family)
• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
• How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)
• Nashville (ABC)
• Orphan Black (BBC America)
• Sense8 (Netflix)
• Shameless (Showtime)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX)
• Faking It (MTV)
• Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
• Looking (HBO)
• Master of None (Netflix)
• Modern Family (ABC)
• Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
• Please Like Me (Pivot)
• Transparent (Amazon Instant Video)
• Vicious (PBS)

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE

(in a series without a regular LGBT character)

• “Gender” The Carmichael Show (NBC)
• “Please Don’t Ask, Please Don’t Tell” Black-ish (ABC)
• “The Prince of Nucleotides” Royal Pains (USA Network)
• “Rock-a-Bye-Baby” NCIS New Orleans (CBS)
• “We Build, We Fight” NCIS (CBS)

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

• Banana (Logo)
• Bessie (HBO)
• Cucumber (Logo)

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY

• Kumu Hina (PBS)
• Limited Partnership (PBS)
• Mala Mala (Strand Releasing)
• Tab Hunter Confidential (The Film Collaborative)
• Tig (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM

• I Am Cait (E!)
• I Am Jazz (TLC)
• New Girls on the Block (Discovery Life)
• The Prancing Elites Project (Oxygen)
• Transcendent (Fuse)

OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA

• The Bold and The Beautiful (CBS)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

• Brandi Carlile, The Firewatcher’s Daughter (ATO Records)
• Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (Smiley Miley, Inc.)
• Adam Lambert, The Original High (Warner Bros. Records)
• Le1f, Riot Boi (XL Recordings/Terrible Records)
• Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood (Capitol Records)

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK

• Angela: Queen of Hel, written by Marguerite Bennett (Marvel Comics)
• Harley Quinn, written by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti (DC Comics)
• Lumberjanes, written by Noelle Stevenson,
• Shanonn Watters, Kat Leyh (BOOM! Studios)
• Midnighter, written by Steve Orlando (DC Comics)
• The Wicked + Divine, written by Kieron Gillen (Image Comics)

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE

• “Alison Bechdel” Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
• “Aydian Dowling” The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)
• “Janet Mock” Super Soul Sunday (OWN)
• “Jazz Jennings” The Meredith Vieira Show (syndicated)
• “Transgender Rights” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE

• “Bruce Jenner: The Interview” 20/20 (ABC)
• “The Courage Game” SportsCenter (ESPN)
• “Dividing The United Methodist Church” To The Contrary” (PBS)
• “Showdown in Indiana: The Battle Over Religious Rights”
• CNN Special Report (CNN)
• True Life: I’m Genderqueer (MTV)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT

• “Interview with Jim Obergefell” Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
• “Mary Bonauto on Her SCOTUS Victory” The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
• “Nicholas Coppola: Gay & Catholic” America Tonight (Al Jazeera America)
• “Pushing for Equality for Transgender People” Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC)
• “Toddler Plays Role in Marriage Equality Case” MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts (MSNBC)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

• “Cold Case: The Murders of Cosby and Jackson” by Dianna Wray (Houston Press)
• “Gay and Transgender Catholics Urge Pope Francis to Take a Stand” by Laurie Goodstein (The New York Times)
• “Meet Dr. Levine, The State’s Top Doc” by Michael A. Fuoco (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• “Navy’s First Openly Gay SEAL Builds His Life Anew” by David Zucchino (Los Angeles Times)
• “Transgender Today” [series] (The New York Times)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE

• “Behind Brazil’s Gay Pride Parades, a Struggle with Homophobic Violence” by Oscar Lopez (Newsweek)
• “The First Black Trans Model Had Her Face on a Box of Clairol” by Jada Yuan and Aaron Wong (New York)
• “Gus Kenworthy’s Next Bold Move” by Alyssa Roenigk (ESPN The Magazine)
• “Just Your Average (Transgender) Teen” by Andrea Stanley (Seventeen)
• “Pride & Prejudice” by Linda Villarosa (Essence Magazine)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE

• The Advocate
• Cosmopolitan
• Seventeen
• Time
• Variety

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

• “The Faces of Transgender Teen America” by David Yi (Mashable.com)
• “How the Killing of a Trans Filipina Woman Ignited an International Incident” by Meredith Talusan (Vice.com)
• “The Ky Peterson Saga” [series] by Mitch Kellaway and Sunnivie Brydum (Advocate.com)
• “This Is What It’s Like To Be An LGBT Syrian Fleeing For Your Life” by J. Lester Feder (Buzzfeed.com)
• “This Tiny Clinic is Fighting for Trans Patients Illegally Denied Medical Care” by Jennifer Swann (TakePart.com)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA

• “Freed Trans Woman Ashley Diamond On Life Behind Bars In Men’s Prison” HuffPost Live (HuffingtonPost.com)
• “Holler if You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church” by Clay Cane (BET.com)
• “Queerness On The Front Lines Of #BlackLivesMatter” MSNBC Originals (MSNBC.com)
• “Stopping HIV? The Truvada Revolution” Vice Reports (Vice.com)
• “Transgender, at War and in Love” by Fiona Dawson (NewYorkTimes.com)

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

• Beautiful As I Want To Be (Logotv.com)
• This is Me (Amazon Instant Video)

SPANISH-LANGUAGE NOMINEES

OUTSTANDING NOVELA

• Antes muerta que Lichita (Univision)
• Celia (Telemundo)
• Los miserables (Telemundo)
• Rastros de mentiras (MundoMax)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

• Ricky Martin, A quien quiera escuchar
• (Sony Music Latin)

OUTSTANDING DAYTIME PROGRAM EPISODE

• “La armonía de su casa se rompió” Casos de Familia (Univision)
• “¿El marido de mi padre o yo?” Caso Cerrado (Telemundo)

OUTSTANDING TELEVISION INTERVIEW

• “La confesión de Bruce Jenner” Showbiz (CNN en Español)
• “Entrevista con Claudia Valenzuela y Karolina” Enfoque (Telemundo)
• “Lucha por su identidad” Al Punto (Univision)
• “Matrimonio igualitario” Cala (CNN en Español)
• “Orientación sexual y acoso escolar” Realidades en Contexto (CNN en Español)

OUTSTANDING LOCAL TELEVISION INTERVIEW

• “Entrevista con Kael Escobar” Vida Mujer (WGBO-Univision 66 [Chicago])
• “Entrevista con Tony Lima, SAVE Dade” Ahora en Nuestra Comunidad (WLTV-Univision 23 [Miami])
• “La nueva transgeneración” Enfoque Los Ángeles (KVEA-Telemundo 52 [Los Ángeles])
• “Reacciones al caso Jenner” A Primera Hora (KMEX-Univision 34 [Los Ángeles])

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE

• “Abre su corazón: entrevista con Patricia Velásquez” Al Rojo Vivo (Telemundo)
• “Amor que rompe barreras” Un Nuevo Día (Telemundo)
• “En cuerpo ajeno” Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
• “Reveladora historia: entrevista con Patricia Velásquez” Un Nuevo Día (Telemundo)
• “Viviendo con dos mamás” Primer Impacto (Univision)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT

• “Decisión histórica en Estados Unidos” Noticiero NTN 24 (NTN)
• “Entrevista con Tamara Adrián” Encuentro (CNN en Español)
• “Parejas del mismo sexo celebran la legalización del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo en todo el país” Café CNN (CNN en Español)
• “Permiten matrimonios” Noticiero Telemundo (Telemundo)
• “Víctimas de abusos” Noticiero Univision (Univision)

OUTSTANDING LOCAL TV JOURNALISM

• “Aprendió a vivir en plenitud con el virus del VIH” Noticias Arizona (KTVW-Univision 33 [Phoenix])
• “Cada 29 horas” Noticias 19 (KUVS-Univision 19 [Sacramento])
• “Decidí ser feliz” Noticias 34 (KMEX-Univision 34 [Los Ángeles])
• “Descubriéndose” Noticiero Telemundo (KVEA-Telemundo 52 [Los Ángeles])
• “Reporte especial” Noticias 14 (KDTV-Univision 14 [San Francisco])

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

• “La constitucionalidad del matrimonio gay en EE.UU. queda en suspenso” by Selene Rivera (Hoy Los Ángeles)
• “Iguales bajo la lluvia” by Marcos B Guzmán Rivera (El Nuevo Día)
• “Indocumentados y gays: Un romance con desafíos” by Laura Wides-Muñoz (Prensa Asociada)
• “Mujeres transgénero piden respeto a sus derechos” by Jorge Morales Almada (La Opinión)
• “Padres transgénero – El único requisito para ser papá es el amor por los hijos” by Virginia Gaglianone (La Opinión)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

• “Bruce Jenner o el nuevo rostro de las personas transgénero en los medios” by José Ángel Gonzalo (Univision.com)
• “Inquietud en la comunidad transgénero ante el incremento de asesinatos” by Juan Carlos Gomi (Efe.com)
• “Mujeres transgénero latinas exigen fin de violencia física contra colectivo” by Aitana Vargas (Efe.com)
• “Perú: violaciones correctivas: El terrible método para ‘curar’ a las lesbianas” by Leire Ventas (BBCMundo.com)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA

• “Así reciben la legalización del matrimonio gay en Florida” by Hirania Luzardo (HuffingtonPostVoces.com)
• “Caitlyn Jenner quiere ser legalmente reconocida como mujer” by Isis Sauceda (peopleenespañol.com)
• “Campeones de la igualdad” (Univision.com)
• “Undocuqueer, dos palabras, un tema” by Joanna Rentería (HoyLosAngeles.com)
• “Voy a ser mamá, mi novio está embarazado” by Andrés López (CNNespanol.CNN.com)