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They're gonna want Taron Egerton, so look for Rocketman to win ... here are all the GLAAD Media Awards nominees ...

Seems like just yesterday I was at the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in NYC, asking Madonna if I could shoot her at her table (“nope-nope-nope”).

Now, the honorees for the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in L.A. have been announced, and they're going for an artist who's the Cats meow, as well as a total Pose-r ...

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Happy Spirit Day!

GLAAD's Spirit Day turns 10 with GLAAD & Little Bee Books devoted to LGBTQ acceptance as well as a slew of videos from 2020 contenders providing comfort and strength to kids enduring bullying. Watch ...

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Taylor Swift's lyric video for her new single “You Need to Calm Down” makes it clear the song is a boost to bullied LGBTQ people — particularly the part where she sings, “Why are you mad/when you can be GLAAD?”

Cue GLAAD employees creaming.

Also, “Shade never made/Anybody less gay.”

Then, Friday night, she showed up at the Stonewall for an unannounced performance — videos after the jump ...

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GLAAD chats up Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City cast members— check out the video ...

GLAAD's 2019 Studio Responsibility Index is an informative read, pointing out that 18.2% of movies from the seven major studios had LGBTQ characters, which was up from 2017's abysmal all-time low.

Via press release:

The GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) maps the quantity, quality and diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) characters in films released by the seven major motion picture studios during the 2018 calendar year. GLAAD researched films released by 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros., as well as films released by four subsidiaries of these major studios. The report is intended to serve as a road map toward increasing fair, accurate and inclusive LGBTQ representation in film.

Read the full report here.

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