Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 21:18:42 -0500 From: glaad@glaad.org (GLAAD) Subject: GLAAD ANNOUNCES NOMINEES OF 1998 MEDIA AWARDS MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Bill Horn, ph: (213) 658-6775 pager: (800) 946-4646 pin#1423528 e-mail: horn@glaad.org Cathy Renna, ph: (212) 807-1700 pager: (301) 215-1354 e-mail: renna@glaad.org GLAAD ANNOUNCES NOMINEES OF 1998 MEDIA AWARDS "AS GOOD AS IT GETS," "IN & OUT," "OPRAH," JANET JACKSON, "TIME" AND "ER" AMONG NOMINEES NEW YORK, NY , THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1998-The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is proud to announce the nominees of its 9th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which will take place in three ceremonies to be held in New York City on March 30 at the New York Hilton Towers, in Washington, DC on April 4 at the George Washington Marriot and in Los Angeles on April 19 at the Century Plaza Hotel. The GLAAD Media Awards were created in 1989 to honor individuals and projects in the media and entertainment industries for their balanced and accurate representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards are sponsored in part by Absolut and American Airlines. Additional sponsors include ABC Entertainment, American Media, Entertainment Weekly, Hanson Jacobson and Teller, Harmony Gold, Lyn and Norman Lear, Leslie Accountancy, Sid Sheinberg, Sony and Wells Fargo. GLAAD is the largest lesbian and gay media advocacy organization in the nation. GLAAD promotes fair, accurate and inclusive representations in the media as a means of challenging discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity. Founded in 1985 by a group of writers, including the late Celluloid Closet author Vito Russo, who were outraged by the defamatory headlines about AIDS in the New York Post, GLAAD mobilized to change the way lesbians and gay men are represented in all forms of media. Today, GLAAD is a national organization that effectively mobilizes public response to media coverage and educates media professionals on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community's issues and concerns. GLAAD has offices in Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. For further information and to purchase tickets for the New York ceremony, please contact GLAAD's New York office at 212/807-1700. For information for Washington, DC contact the DC office at 202/986-1360. And for information and tickets for Los Angeles, contact Levy Pazanti and Associates at 888/655-6529. General event and ticket information for this year's GLAAD Media Awards can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.glaad.org. THE 1998 GLAAD MEDIA AWARD NOMINEES: OUTSTANDING FILM (Wide Release): As Good As It Gets In & Out Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil My Best Friend's Wedding OUTSTANDING FILM (Limited Release): All Over Me Bent Different For Girls Lilies My Life in Pink (Ma Vie En Rose) OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY: Behind the Music: Boy George (VH1) Hide and Seek (PBS) I Shall Not Be Removed (PBS) Licensed to Kill Paul Monette: Brink of Summer's End (Cinemax) OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE: Any Mother's Son Breaking the Code In the Gloaming Twilight of the Golds OUTSTANDING TV DRAMA SERIES: ER (NBC) 413 Hope Street (Fox) NYPD Blue (ABC) OUTSTANDING TV COMEDY SERIES: Ellen (ABC) Mad About You (NBC) Spin City (ABC) Suddenly Susan (NBC) OUTSTANDING TV INDIVIDUAL EPISODE: HBO Comedy Hour "Drop Dead Gorgeous (A Tragicomedy): The Power of HIV-Positive Thinking" (HBO) The Practice "Civil Rights" (ABC) The Simpsons "Homer's Phobia" (Fox) South Park "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" (Comedy Central) Xena: Warrior Princess "Here She Comes, Miss Amphipolis" (Syndicated) OUTSTANDING TV TALK: RuPaul Show "The Family Show" Geraldo "Ellen Coming Out: Celebration or Catastrophe?" Oprah Winfrey Show "Ellen's Coming Out" Episode OUTSTANDING DAYTIME DRAMA: All My Children (ABC) OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM: 20/20 (ABC) - "TOPS Cops" 20/20 (ABC) - "Married Lesbians Come Out" Legal Cafe (Court TV) - "Domestic Partnership" Entertainment Tonight (syndicated) - Body of Work AIDS: A Journal of Hope (Time Warner/NY1) OUTSTANDING MUSIC: Ani DiFranco Living in Clip Erasure Cowboy Indigo Girls Shaming of the Sun Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope White Town Women in Technology OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE: "Her Son/Daughter" New York Times Magazine "A Daughter's Story" Seventeen Magazine "I'm Just Like Any Other Mom" McCall's "1997 Entertainer of the Year" Entertainment Weekly "Yep, I'm Gay" Time Magazine OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE: Time Magazine The Progressive Advertising Age OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: "Death of a Sailor" by Cheryl Lavin (Chicago Tribune) "What A Difference A Modem Makes" by Matthew McAllester (Newsday) "A Self Made Man" by David Tuller (San Francisco Chronicle) "Nowhere to Hide: When Love Turns Mean" by Katherine Seligman (San Francisco Examiner) OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMN/ COLUMNIST: Clarence Page "What Kids and Their Parents Should Know About Gay Rights" (Tribune Media Service) "Outlooks" (Miami Herald) OUTSTANDING COMIC: The Invisibles The Flash Superboy and the Ravers For Better or For Worse OUTSTANDING INTERACTIVE MEDIA: Ann On-Line gay.com GLORadio Sol's Activist Page Oasis Magazine OUTSTANDING LA THEATER PRODUCTION: The Sum of Us Mountains Gay 90's Musical Rent The Normal Heart OUTSTANDING NY THEATER PRODUCTION: A Question of Mercy Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Hedwig & The Angry Inch In-Betweens Tell-Tale -30- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) glaad@glaad.org TO REPORT DEFAMATION IN THE MEDIA - Call GLAAD's Alertline at 1.800.GAY.MEDIA or go to the GLAAD Web Site at www.glaad.org and report through our Alertline Online. 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