GLAAD announced the nominees for its 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. And bit of a surprise: Rod 2.0 is nominated in a new category.
Among the nominees: Lisa Cholodenko's Golden Globe®-nominated film The Kids Are All Right, I Love You Phillip Morris, starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, Howl, starring James Franco, the summer hit film Easy A, HBO's acclaimed drama True Blood, Fox's hit show Glee, ABC's hit comedy Modern Family, NBC's hit sitcom 30 Rock, Prodigal Sons, a documentary about a transgender woman and her family, season eight of Project Runway, The Oprah Winfrey Show for Ricky Martin's first televised interview, MSNBC's interview with Fort Worth City Council member Joel Burns, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Essence.com's "Bridal Bliss: Aisha and Danielle," the Scissor Sisters, Chely Wright, and Spanish-language nominees Levántate, Aquí y Ahora, Caso Cerrado, Casos de Familia, and openly gay music artists Christian Chávez and Fedro.
This year GLAAD introduced a new category to recognize independent blogs, in recognition of the growing role of online media in shaping today's culture. The first nominees in this category are The Bilerico Project, Blabbeando, Joe. My. God., Pam's House Blend, and Rod 2.0.
That's excellent news for R20 to be included among the first nominees. Many thanks to GLAAD for the recognition and congrats to the other nominees.
The nominations for Outstanding Documentary include TvOne's much-acclaimed "Sylvester Unsung." The full list of the #GLAADAWARDS nominees AFTER THE JUMP ...
OUTSTANDING FILM - WIDE RELEASE
Burlesque (Screen Gems)
Easy A (Screen Gems)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Music Box Films)
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Universal Pictures)
OUTSTANDING FILM - LIMITED RELEASE
Howl (Oscilloscope Pictures)
I Love You Phillip Morris (Roadside Attractions)
La Mission (Screen Media Ventures)
Patrik, Age 1.5 (Regent Releasing)
Undertow (Wolfe Releasing)
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family)
True Blood (HBO)
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Glee (Fox)
GREEK (ABC Family)
Modern Family (ABC)
Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
United States of Tara (Showtime)
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular LGBT character)
"Escape the Castle" Bored to Death (HBO)
"Innocence" Law & Order (NBC)
"Klaus & Greta" 30 Rock (NBC)
"Queen of Mean" Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
"Samaritan" Law & Order: UK (BBC America)
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
8: The Mormon Proposition (Red Flag Releasing)
Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (Sundance Channel)
Prodigal Sons (First Run Features)
"Sylvester" UnSung (TV One)
Out. The Glenn Burke Story (Comcast SportsNet Bay Area)
OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
The Fabulous Beekman Boys (Planet Green)
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (Sundance Channel)
Project Runway (Lifetime)
Top Chef: Just Desserts (Bravo)
TRANSform Me (VH1)
OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE
"Constance McMillen" The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)
"Neil Patrick Harris" The Talk (CBS)
"Rebuilding Home After Tragedy: The Seth Walsh Story" The Nate Berkus Show (syndicated)
"Ricky Martin Coming Out as a Gay Man and a New Dad" The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)
"Transgender Kids: Too Young to Decide?" The Dr. Oz Show (syndicated)
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM - NEWSMAGAZINE
""Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (series) The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
"Gay Teen Suicides" (series) Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
"Katie Miller: Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Outside the Lines (ESPN)
"Olson and Boies on Same-Sex Marriage" Bill Moyers Journal (PBS)
"Transitions" Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT
"Don't Ask..." CBS Sunday Morning (CBS)
"Fort Worth Speech" The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (MSNBC)
"Gay Teens Talk Their Truth" CNN Newsroom (CNN)
"Images of Protest" ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (ABC)
"Mom, Dad... I'm Coming Out" Today (NBC)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"Coming Out, Fitting In" by Rosemary Winters (The Salt Lake Tribune)
"D.C. Gay Couple Caps a Momentous First by Tying the Knot" by Monica Hesse (The Washington Post)
"Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi's Suicide Spurs Action Across U.S." by Judy Peet (The Star-Ledger [Newark, N.J.)
"A Tragic Love Story" by Steve Friess (LA Weekly)
"Worlds Apart" by Lauren Smiley (SF Weekly)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Peg Mcentee (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Frank Rich (The New York Times)
Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)
Rev. Byron Williams (The Oakland Tribune)
OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Denver Post
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
The Salt Lake Tribune
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
"All That's Left is God" by Michelle Theall (5280 Magazine)
"'I Was Scared to Sleep': LGBT Youth Face Violence Behind Bars" by Daniel Redman (The Nation)
"It's a Shocking Trend: Gay Teens Being Bullied to the Point of Suicide" by Kenneth Miller (Ladies' Home Journal)
"Just Another Girl (Who Used to be a Boy)" by Genevieve Field (Glamour)
"What Happens When You Find the One...And He's Nothing - Nothing - Like You Expected?" by Allison Cooper (O, The Oprah Magazine)
OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Advocate/Out
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Entertainment Weekly
People
US Weekly
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
"The Camera in the Closet: Gay Service Members Speak Out to ABC News About Don't Ask, Don't Tell" by Mary Kathryn Burke (ABCNews.com)
"'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Hurts African-American Women the Most" by Lynette Holloway (TheRoot.com)
"Ice Cracks Beneath Weir's Critics" by LZ Granderson (ESPN.com)
"View From Washington" (series) by Kerry Eleveld (Advocate.com)
"Wrestler Hudson Taylor a Champion for Gay Rights" by Jim Buzinski (Outsports.com)
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM - MULTIMEDIA
"Bridal Bliss: Aisha and Danielle" by Bobbi Misick (Essence.com)
"Censoring Wojnarowicz" (IntheLifetv.org)
"A Gay Family Album" (Newsweek.com)
"Kicked Out But Ready to Go Back" by Jon Groat (Newsweek.com)
OUTSTANDING BLOG
The Bilerico Project (http://www.bilerico.com/)
Blabbeando (http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/)
Joe. My. God. (http://joemygod.blogspot.com/)
Pam's House Blend (http://www.pamshouseblend.com)
Rod 2.0 (http://rodonline.typepad.com/)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights (Secretly Canadian)
Big Freedia, Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1 (Big Freedia Records)
Chely Wright, Lifted Off the Ground (Vanguard Records)
Kele Okereke, The Boxer (Glassnote Records)
Scissor Sisters, Night Work (Downtown Records)
OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Scott Allie, Brad Meltzer,
Joss Whedon (Dark Horse Comics)
Fogtown by Andersen Gabrych (Vertigo/DC Comics)
Veronica by Dan Parent (Archie Comics)
X-Factor by Peter David (Marvel Comics)
Young Avengers: Children's Crusade by Allan Heinberg(Marvel)
OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER
Dr. Cerberus by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa
Haram Iran by Jay Paul Deratany
Revolver by Chris Phillips
Something Happened by L. Trey Wilson
The Twentieth-Century Way by Tom Jacobson
OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY
In the Wake by Lisa Kron
The Kid, book by Michael Zam, lyrics by Jack Lechner, music by Andy Monroe
Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl
The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell
Secrets of the Trade by Jonathan Tolins
OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF-OFF BROADWAY
Lay of the Land by Tim Miller
Let Them Eat Cake by Holly Hughes, Megan Carney and Moe Angelos
This One Girl's Story, book by Bil Wright, music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking from the Diaphragm by Vaginal Davis
When Last We Flew by Harrison David Rivers
CONGRATS ROD, YOU DESERVE MAN!!
Posted by: BLACK | 20 January 2011 at 17:39
I was happy for you that I forgot to type "IT" after deserve...lol.
Posted by: BLACK | 20 January 2011 at 17:41
Congratulations Rod. Keep up the excellent reporting.
Posted by: kirk | 20 January 2011 at 18:02
Great news Rod for you man!
Posted by: Cedric | 20 January 2011 at 18:06
Holy shit. Congrats, Rod! I hope you win.
As an aside, though, I hope Veronica wins for Outstanding Comic Book. I loved me some Archie when I was a teen, ha. But congrats again.
Posted by: Justin | 20 January 2011 at 18:15
I am very proud of you and your exceptional blog.
Posted by: Nathan James | 20 January 2011 at 18:46
Congratulations! Well deserved and long overdue!!!
Posted by: Distant Lover | 20 January 2011 at 19:41
Congratulations
Posted by: Bama | 20 January 2011 at 19:56
Congrats Rod. Your blog is awesome.
Posted by: bartonhughes | 20 January 2011 at 20:15
Well deserved! Congratulations!
Posted by: Jim J | 20 January 2011 at 21:38
Rod, you deserve it. Congratulations!
Posted by: Honut Sinti | 20 January 2011 at 21:54
CONGRATULATIONS!
Posted by: Paul561 | 21 January 2011 at 00:46
Go Rod, it's your birthday!
Go Rod, it's your birthday!
Go Rod, it's your birthday!
Posted by: kevjack | 21 January 2011 at 00:47
Congratulations from London Rod
Posted by: Rog | 21 January 2011 at 00:58
Congratulations Rod.
Posted by: JinCA | 21 January 2011 at 01:05
Wonderful news Rod. It's much deserved. Love the blog and congrats.
Posted by: Former COGIC | 21 January 2011 at 01:08
Btw how do we vote?
Posted by: Rog | 21 January 2011 at 01:21
Kudos to you Rod.
A truly deserved acknowledgement.
Posted by: JBK! | 21 January 2011 at 01:24
Very well-deserved.
Posted by: Andy Niable | 21 January 2011 at 04:16
Congratulations, Rod. I am so happy for you and proud of you because of the important work you do. I get more interesting news that is important to me from you than from any other source. I will be rooting for you.
Posted by: Jerry | 21 January 2011 at 06:41
Congratulations and it's well deserved. A daily visit to your infotaining atmosphere always helps it go by a little smoother.
Posted by: elektrick.red | 21 January 2011 at 06:46
I'm really happy about this, Rod. I've learned so much here on Rod 2.0 And most importantly, thanks for letting me use your blog for self-psychoanalyis (kinda' self indulgent of me, aint it?...oh, well).
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 21 January 2011 at 08:23
Congratulations Rod - you deserve a big, sexi win!! :)
Posted by: Liberator Émigré Éire | 21 January 2011 at 10:24
Congrats to Rod for the nomination!
Posted by: Black Pegasus | 21 January 2011 at 10:52
Congratulations Rod. You deserve the honor and Rod 2.0 is 'teh awesome.'
Posted by: Dallas Cowboy | 21 January 2011 at 11:50