2020 GLAAD Media Awards: Winners And Highlights
The 2020 GLAAD Media Awards took place virtually this year due to COVID-19, but it was still a success. The event, which streamed on the GLAAD Facebook and YouTube page, was hosted by Fortune Feimster and Gina Yashere.
Many celebrities took part in the event, including Demi Lovato, Gabrielle Union, Dwayne Wade, Chloe x Halle, Cara Delevingne, Olivia Wilde, Sonya Deville, Lil Nas X, Dolly Parton, and Lena Waithe.
For anyone who missed it, winners and show highlights are below. The GLAAD Media Awards will also re-air on Logo on August 3.
Outstanding Film – Wide Release
Bombshell
Booksmart
Downton Abbey
Judy
Rocketman
Outstanding Film – Limited Release
Adam
Brittany Runs a Marathon
End of the Century
The Heiresses
Kanarie
Pain & Glory
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Rafiki
Socrates
This Is Not Berlin
Outstanding Documentary
5B
Gay Chorus Deep South
Leitis in Waiting
State of Pride
Wig
Outstanding Drama Series
Batwoman
Billions
Euphoria
Killing Eve
The L Word: Generation Q
The Politician
Pose
Shadowhunters
Star Trek: Discovery
Supergirl
Outstanding Comedy Series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Dear White People
Dickinson
One Day at a Time
The Other Two
Schitt’s Creek
Sex Education
Superstore
Vida
Work in Progress
Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series w/o a regular LGBTQ character)
“Love” Drunk History
“Murdered at a Bad Address” Law & Order: SVU
“Spontaneous Combustion” Easy
“This Extraordinary Being” Watchmen
“Two Doors Down” Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings
Outstanding TV Movie
Deadwood: The Movie
Let It Snow
Rent: Live
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story
Outstanding Limited Series
Mrs. Fletcher
The Red Line
Tales of the City
When They See Us
Years & Years
Outstanding Kids & Family Programming
Andi Mack
The Bravest Knight (Tie)
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Tie)
The Loud House
Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone Arthur
Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Steven Universe: The Movie
“A Tale of Two Nellas” Nella the Princess Knight
Twelve Forever
Outstanding Reality Program
Are You the One?
Bachelor in Paradise
I Am Jazz
Queer Eye
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Outstanding Music Artist
Adam Lambert, Velvet: Side A
Brittany Howard, Jaime
Kevin Abstract, ARIZONA BABY
Kim Petras, Clarity
King Princess, Cheap Queen
Lil Nas X, 7
Melissa Etheridge, The Medicine Show
Mika, My Name Is Michael Holbrook
Tegan and Sara, Hey, I’m Just Like You
Young M.A, Herstory in the Making
Outstanding Comic Book
The Avant-Guards, written by Carly Usdin
Bloom, written by Kevin Panetta
Crowded, written by Christopher Sebela
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass, written by Mariko Tamaki
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, written by Mariko Tamaki
Liebestrasse, written by Greg Lockard
Lumberjanes, written by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh
Runaways, written by Rainbow Rowell
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, written by Simon Spurrier
The Wicked + Divine, written by Kieron Gillen
Outstanding Video Game
Apex Legends
Borderlands 3
The Outer Worlds
Overwatch
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Outstanding Broadway Production
Choir Boy, by Tarell Alvin McCraney
The Inheritance, by Matthew Lopez
Jagged Little Pill, book by Diablo Cody, lyrics by Alanis Morissette, music by Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard
Slave Play, by Jeremy O. Harris
What the Constitution Means to Me, by Heidi Schreck
Outstanding Variety or Talk Show Episode
“Billy Porter Serves Cataract Realness, Fashion, and Tonys” The View
“Ellen Meets Inspiring Mormon Valedictorian” The Ellen Show
“Jacob Tobia – Promoting a ‘Gender-Chill’ Exploration of Identity with ‘Sissy'” The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
“Jonathan Van Ness: Honey, She’s An Onion With All Sorts of Layers” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
“Lilly Is Struggling to Date Women” A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Outstanding TV Journalism – News Magazine
“ABC News Pride Day”
“All Her Sons” CBS Sunday Morning
“Am I Next? Gay and Targeted in Chechnya” Nightline
“Am I Next? Trans and Targeted” Nightline
“Rainbow Railroad” 60 Minutes
Outstanding TV Journalism Segment
“Black and Trans in Texas” Vice News Tonight
“Don Lemon to Kevin Hart: Walking away right now is your choice” CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
“L.G.B.T.Q. Community Finds ‘Sense of Home’ in the Bronx” by Rick Rojas
“Military Reports No Discharges Under Trans Ban — But Advocates Have Doubts” by Chris Johnson
“Nearly 4 Million LGBTQ People Live in Rural America, and ‘Everything is not bias and awful'” by Susan Miller
“Texas Leads the Nation in Transgender Murders. After the Latest Attack, the Dallas Trans Community Asks Why” by Lauren McGaughy
“Trump Pledged to End the HIV Epidemic. San Francisco Could Get There First” by Maria L. La Ganga
“Laverne Cox: We exist, we deserve human rights” Up with David Gura
“One-on-One with Mayor Pete Buttigieg” The Rachel Maddow Show
“Ryan Russell Reveals His Truth” ESPN
Outstanding Magazine Article
“2019 Sportsperson of the Year: Megan Rapinoe” by Jenny Vrentas (Sports Illustrated)
“In Her Element: Geena Rocero” by Geena Rocero (Playboy)
“Indya Moore Just Wants to Be Free” by Jada Yuan (ELLE)
“Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Unlikely, Untested, Unprecedented Presidential Campaign” by Charlotte Alter (TIME)
“The Trans Obituaries Project” by Raquel Willis (OUT)
Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage
Advocate
Billboard
Entertainment Weekly
OUT
Variety
Outstanding Digital Journalism Article
“Finding the Truth About Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports” [series] by Cyd Zeigler, Dawn Ennis (Outsports.com)
“How a New Class of Trans Male Actors Are Changing the Face of Television” by Trish Bendix (TIME.com)
“‘This time is real’: Taiwan Counts Down to Asia’s First Same-Sex Weddings” by Beh Lih Yi (Openlynews.com)
“Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your ‘Out of Wedlock’ Kids Aren’t Citizens” by Scott Bixby (TheDailyBeast.com)
“When Transgender Travelers Walk Into Scanners, Invasive Searches Sometimes Wait on the Other Side” by Lucas Waldron, Brenda Medina (ProPublica.org)
Outstanding Digital Journalism – Video or Multimedia
“Between Two Homes: The LGBTQ+ Refugees America Left Behind” by Judah Robinson (NowThis)
“LGBTQ+ Community Debates the Meaning of ‘Queer,’ Military Bans, & More” by Arielle Duhaime-Ross (VICE)
“The Life Threatening Dangers Of Gay Conversion Therapy” by Grace Baldridge (Refinery29)
“Sound On: Community, Representation and Identity” by Terron Moore and Rakhee Jethwa (MTV News)
“Stonewall 50: The Revolution” produced by Sekiya Dorsett, Brooke Sopelsa, Elizabeth Kuhr, Shahrzad Elghanayan, Wesley Oliver, Tim Fitzsimmons (NBC OUT and Nightly Films)
Outstanding Blog
Gays with Kids
JoeMyGod
My Fabulous Disease
Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
TransGriot
Special Recognition
Special (Netflix)
Karen Ocamb, news editor, Los Angeles Blade
Mark Segal, founder and publisher, Philadelphia Gay News
