GLAAD Media Award 2024 nominees include ‘The Color Purple,’ ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Heartstopper’

GLAAD’s next round of media awards foreground stories on transgender and nonbinary youth amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ bills being proposed across the nation.

This year’s nominees for the 35th annual GLAAD Media Awards reflect a particular emphasis on works that center and empower trans and nonbinary people as the community faces a record number of bills aimed at restricting their rights.

GLAAD released its list of nominees Wednesday, days after the group received the Governors Award at the 2023 Emmy Awards ceremony. The advocacy nonprofit group has honored and highlighted films, television shows, journalism and other media for decades that represent and uplift the experiences of LGBTQ people. 

It wrote in a news release that many of the awards categories include a significant number of featured trans and nonbinary characters.

As many as 10 television shows nominated across several GLAAD categories featured trans representation, including “9-1-1 Lone Star,” “The Chi” and “Doctor Who.” Five of the 10 video games nominated for outstanding video game included trans and nonbinary characters, such as “Baldur’s Gate 3” — a critically acclaimed role-playing fantasy game which swept the 2023 Game Awards — and “Thirsty Suitors.”

GLAAD added that a significant number of nominees this year are queer people of color, as well as queer, lesbian and bisexual women. Many LGBTQ music artists of color were nominated for awards, including Billy Porter, Ice Spice and Janelle Monáe. Additionally, over half of the film nominees included prominent queer, female characters, such as “Anyone But You,” “The Color Purple” and “Shortcomings.”

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