15th Annual
GLAAD Media Awards (2004) were presented at three separate ceremonies: March 27 in
Los Angeles
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; April 12 in
New York City
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and June 5 in
San Francisco
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. The awards were presented to honor "fair, accurate and inclusive" representations of gay individuals in the media.
Awards and nominees
Winners are presented in bold.
Film Awards
*Outstanding Film - Wide Release
**
Bend It Like Beckham
**''
Under the Tuscan Sun''
*Outstanding Film - Limited Release
**''
Die, Mommie, Die!'' (Sundance Film Series)
**''
Gasoline
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'' (Strand Releasing)
**''
Madame Satã'' (Wellspring Media, Inc.)
**''
Mambo Italiano'' (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
**
Yossi & Jagger (Strand Releasing)
Television Awards
* Outstanding Drama Series
** ''
Degrassi: The Next Generation'' (The N)
** ''
Nip/Tuck'' (
FX)
**
Playmakers (
ESPN
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)
** ''
Queer as Folk'' (
Showtime)
** ''
Six Feet Under'' (
HBO
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)
* Outstanding Comedy Series
** ''
It's All Relative'' (
ABC)
** ''
Oliver Beene'' (
Fox)
** ''
Reno 911!'' (
Comedy Central)
**
Sex and the City
''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO, based on Sex and the City (newspaper column), the newspaper column and 1996 book by Candace Bushnell. It premiered in th ...
(
HBO
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)
** ''
Will & Grace'' (
NBC)
* Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular gay character)
** "A Time to Hate", ''
Cold Case'' (
CBS)
** "And Baby Makes Four", ''
Girlfriends'' (
UPN)
** "Chapter Fifty-Eight", ''
Boston Public
''Boston Public'' is an American drama (film and television), drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. Set in Boston, the series centers on Winslow High School, a fictional public high sc ...
'' (
Fox)
** "Fallacy", ''
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (
NBC)
** "Sleeping Lions", ''
The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire'' (
CBS)
* Outstanding Television Movie or Mini-Series
**
Angels in America (
HBO
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)
** ''
Cambridge Spies'' (
BBC America)
** ''
Normal'' (
HBO
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)
** ''
Soldier's Girl'' (
Showtime)
** ''
Tipping the Velvet'' (
BBC America)
* Outstanding Reality Program
** ''
The Amazing Race 4'' (
CBS)
** ''
America's Next Top Model
''America's Next Top Model'' (abbreviated ''ANTM'' and ''Top Model'') is an American reality television series and interactive competition in which a number of aspiring models compete for the title of "America's Next Top Model" and a chance to b ...
'' (
UPN)
** ''
Boy Meets Boy'' (
Bravo)
**
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (
Bravo)
** ''
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet'' (
MTV)
* Outstanding Documentary
** ''A Boy Named Sue'' (
Showtime)
** Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (
PBS)
** ''
Daddy & Papa'' (
PBS)
** ''Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay'' (
PBS)
** ''School's Out: The Life of a Gay High School in Texas'' (
MTV)
* Outstanding Daily Drama
**
All My Children
''All My Children'' (often shortened to ''AMC'') is an American television soap opera that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2 ...
(
ABC)
* Outstanding Talk Show
** "Alyn Libman", ''
The Sharon Osbourne Show'' (syndicated)
** "The Husband Who Became a Woman", ''
The Oprah Winfrey Show'' (syndicated)
* Outstanding TV Journalism
** "The Death of Sakia Gunn", ''Live from the Headlines'' (
CNN)
** "Father Raymond: A Question of Faith and Identity", ''
Nightline
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'' (
ABC)
** "It's in to Be 'Out'", ''
20/20'' (
ABC)
** "Not Fit to Fight", ''Primetime Thursday'' (
ABC) (tie)
** "Up Close: The Killing of Gwen Araujo", ''KCAL 9 News'' (KCAL -
Los Angeles
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) (tie)
Print
* Outstanding Magazine Article
** "Motherhood My Way" by Jacqueline Woodson, ''
Essence''
** "The New Face of Gay Power" by John Cloud, ''
Time
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''
** "One of These Men Used to Be a She" by Nanette Varian, ''
Glamour''
** "Their True Selves" by Kade Collins and Samantha Lease as told to Stephanie Booth, ''Teen People''
** "To Be Young, Gifted and Gay" by Farah Stockman, ''Honey''
* Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage
** ''
The Nation
''The Nation'' is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper ...
''
** ''
National Catholic Reporter''
**
Newsweek
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** ''People''
** ''Time''
* Outstanding Newspaper Article
** "Angels, Reagan and AIDS in America" by Frank Rich (''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...
'')
** "For Gays, Secrecy in Love, War" by Patricia Ward Biederman (''
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of new ...
'')
** "Gays Feel Left Out of Morehouse Brotherhood" by Craig Seymour (''
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'')
** "Same-Sex Unions Move Center Stage" by David Von Drehle (''
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington m ...
'')
** "Straddling Sexes" by Louise Rafkin (''
San Francisco Chronicle'')
* Outstanding Newspaper Columnist
** Dave Ford (''
San Francisco Chronicle'')
** Ellen Goodman (''
The Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily new ...
'')
** Ed Gray (''
Boston Herald
The ''Boston Herald'' is an American conservative daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts, and its surrounding area. It was founded in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States. It has been awarde ...
'')
** Leonard Pitts, Jr. (''
The Miami Herald'')
** Deb Price (''
The Detroit News'')
* Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage
** ''
The Boston Globe
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''
** ''
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and ...
''
**
The New York Times
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** ''
San Francisco Chronicle''
** ''
USA Today
''USA Today'' (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headq ...
''
* Outstanding Advertising - Print
** "Absolut Out." -
Absolut
** "R You Ready to Adopt a New Lifestyle?" - Chereskin
* Outstanding Comic Book
** ''The Authority'' (Wildstorm/
DC Comics
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)
** Catwoman (
DC Comics
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)
** ''Gotham Central'' (
DC Comics
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)
** ''How Loathsome'' (NBM Publishing)
** ''Strangers in Paradise'' (Abstract Studio)
Digital
* Outstanding Digital Journalism Article
** "Abuse and Neglect" by
David Tuller,
Salon.com
** "Lives Less Ordinary" by Bryan Robinson,
ABC News ABC News most commonly refers to:
* ABC News (Australia), a national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
* ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company
ABC News may a ...
.com
** "Out at the Prom" by Julie Scelfo,
Newsweek
''Newsweek'' is an American weekly news magazine based in New York City. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century and has had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned by Dev P ...
/
MSNBC
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.com
** "Out of Step" by Martha Brant,
Newsweek
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/
MSNBC
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.com
** "Same-Sex Family Values" by Laura McClure,
Salon.com
* Outstanding Advertising - Electronic
** Hotel Matrix -
Orbitz
** "Marco: Independence" - The N
** "Wedding" -
Snapple
*Outstanding Digital Journalism Article (Spanish-language)
**"Homosexuales: realidades y prejuicios" by Grace Fuller, CNNenespañol.com
**"Una decisión que puede sentar un precedente para el resto de EE.UU." by Grace Fuller, CNNenespañol.com
**"Victoria para matrimonios del mismo sexo" by Emilio Guerra, Univision.com
Music & Theater
* Outstanding Music Artist
**
Bitch and Animal, ''Sour Juice and Rhyme''
**
Junior Senior, ''
D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat''
**
Meshell Ndegeocello, ''
Comfort Woman''
**
Peaches, ''
Fatherfucker''
**
Rufus Wainwright, ''
Want One''
* Outstanding Los Angeles Theater
** ''Autumn Canticle''
** ''Blues for an Alabama Sky''
** ''Body of Faith''
**
Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted
** ''Naked Will: The Portrait of W.H.''
* Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway and Off-Broadway
** ''
Avenue Q''
** ''Flesh and Blood''
**
I Am My Own Wife
** ''The Last Sunday in June''
** ''
Taboo
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''
* Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off-Broadway
** ''Auntie Mayhem''
** ''Bernadette and the Butcher of Broadway''
** Marga Gomez's Intimate Details
** ''Say You Love Satan''
** ''To My Chagrin''
Special Recognition Awards
*
Vanguard Award -
Antonio Banderas
*
Davidson/Valentini Award -
Clive Barker
*
Vito Russo Award -
Cherry Jones
*
Excellence in Media Award -
Julianne Moore
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*
Golden Gate Award -
Megan Mullally
*
Stephen F. Kolzak Award -
John Waters
*
Barbara Gittings Award -
In the Life
*Favorite OUT Image of the Year -
All My Children
''All My Children'' (often shortened to ''AMC'') is an American television soap opera that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2 ...
*Special Recognition: Off the Roof (Mun2)
*Special Recognition:
Gavin Newsom
Sponsors
*''Presenting Sponsor'':
Absolut Vodka
*''Platinum Underwriters'':
Wells Fargo
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,
IBM
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*''Underwriters'':
Anheuser-Busch,
Banana Republic,
Coors,
Jaguar Cars
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,
Land Rover,
Lehman Brothers,
Motorola
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, The Michael Palm Foundation, Terry K. Watanbe
*''Gold Patrons'': Autonomy,
Blockbuster,
HBO
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,
MTV Networks,
Perrier,
PlanetOut,
Prudential Financial,
Rancho Zabaco,
Showtime,
Starbucks
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, Time Warner,
Tylenol PM
*''Patrons'': The Advocate/Out,
AT&T
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, Bravo, William Q. Derrough and Alvaro G. Salas - Jefferies & Co., Inc.,
Eastman Kodak, Fox Entertainment Group, The Honorable
Michael Huffington, Le Montrose Suite Hotel, Barbara & Garry Marshall, The McGraw-Hill Companies, McKinsey & Company - Media & Entertainment Practice, New Line Cinema / Fine Line Features,
Paramount Pictures
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,
Polo Ralph Lauren, Prime Access, Daniel H. Renberg, Andrew Tobias & Charles Nolan,
Verizon, Steven Victorin & Neil Parker,
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
*''Sponsors'':
ABC News ABC News most commonly refers to:
* ABC News (Australia), a national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
* ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company
ABC News may a ...
,
American Express Company, AON / Albert G. Ruben Insurance Services Inc.,
Bloomberg
Bloomberg may refer to:
People
* Daniel J. Bloomberg (1905–1984), audio engineer
* Georgina Bloomberg (born 1983), professional equestrian
* Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), American businessman and founder of Bloomberg L.P.; politician a ...
, BrownCo. a brokerage service of J.P. Morgan, LLC, Burson-Marsteller,
Carsey Werner Mandabach,
CBS/
UPN, Creative Artists Agency, Daily Variety, Deloitte, Entertainment Partners, Fuse, Gay Channel by MTV Networks, Rufus Gifford & Russell Bennett,
Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione,
Heineken USA,
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade pap ...
,
HSBC Bank HSBC Bank may refer to any one of the following principal local banks or divisions of the HSBC Group:
Asia-Pacific
* HSBC (Hong Kong)
** PayMe, its local payment service
* HSBC Bank (China)
* HSBC Bank Australia
* HSBC Bank India
* HSBC Bank Malays ...
USA, InStyle, Leslie, Engell & Associates, LLP,
Levi Strauss & Company,
Lifetime,
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...
,
Miramax Films,
Paramount Pictures
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, People en Español, ''
People
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'', Tony Phelps & Luxe Limousine World Wide Transportation Service, Rhino/Warner Strategic Marketing, Ted Snowdon,
Sundance Channel,
Time Inc., ''
Time
Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...
'',
UBS,
Univision Communications,
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16 ...
,
Warner Bros. Records, Marc Wolinsky & Barry Skovgaard,
Yahoo!
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, The York Hotel
*''Special Thanks'':
American Airlines
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