The 33rd Annual 2022 GLAAD Media Awards Winners
Pose - FX
The 33rd Annual 2022 GLAAD Media Awards ceremony was conducted in New York City on Friday, May 5, 2022. The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by GLAAD (once known as Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives. The ceremony recognizes achievements in film and television in addition to other forms of media like theatre, music, journalism, and advertising. The winners listed below are entries created by, starred, or involved people of color.
FX
Outstanding Drama Series: Pose (FX)
Pose is an American drama television series centering around New York City's drag ball culture scene, an LGBTQ subculture in the African American and Latino communities, throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In the series, dancers and models compete for trophies and recognition in this culture and support one another in a network of chosen families. With the largest cast of trans actors in television history, Pose was a revolutionary series that explores the ups and downs of these communities in the wake of the AIDS crisis. The show’s outgoing and hard-handed approach gathered a significant number of fans.
Time
Outstanding Music Artist: Lil Nas X, “MONTERO” (Columbia Records)
“MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name)” is a song by American rapper and singer Lil Nas X released on March 26, 2021, through Columbia Records. The music frequently outlays queer themes, including sexually explicit homosexual lyrics. The title is taken from the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name which centers on a gay romance. Receiving praise from numerous outlets, the song and music video reached the top of the charts upon its release.
Nickelodeon/Netflix
Outstanding Kids & Family Programming: Power Rangers: Dino Fury (Nickelodeon/Netflix)
Power Rangers Dino Fury is the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth season of the American children's television program Power Rangers. The show made headlines when it introduced an actor and character who identified as lesbian. This is the first time in the Power Rangers franchise to openly include an individual of the LGBTQ+ community as a part of the main cast. Fans have expressed positive responses to the character which has led to talks about future projects in the franchise to include more individuals from the LGBTQ+ community.
JULIETA CERVANTES
Outstanding Broadway Production: Thoughts Of A Colored Man
Thoughts of a Colored Man is a play written by Keenan Scott II that opened on Broadway on October 13, 2021. It is Scott's Broadway debut, and it is also the first Broadway show written and directed by Black men with a Black man in the lead role. The play focuses on the lives, pressures, and passions of seven Black men who live in a Brooklyn neighborhood. It bluntly reveals to the audience what racism, inequality, aspiration, love, sexuality, tragedy, success, and happiness look like to a Black man. The unabashed nature of the play is one of the main factors that draw in the audience.
Outstanding Spanish-Language Online Journalism – Video or Multimedia: “Expulsados México: Cómo la Comunidad Transgénero se Unió para Ayudar a los Migrantes” por Patricia Clarembaux, Anna Clare Spelman, y Celemente Sánchez (Univision Noticias)
“Expulsados México: Cómo la Comunidad Transgénero se Unió para Ayudar a los Migrantes” is a documentary piece detailing the movement of thousands of migrants returning to Mexican cities under Title 42, a health policy implemented in March 2020 due to COVID-19. After the sudden arrival of thousands in Ciudad Juárez, a shelter for transmigrant women stepped up to aid all those who needed a place to take refuge. The efforts display a sense of humanity amongst those in need working alongside a discriminated gender group in society.
AP
Outstanding Spanish-Language Online Journalism Article: (Tie) “Claudia: La Enfermera Trans que Lucha Contra el Covid en Ciudad Juárez” por Louisa Reynolds (Nexos.com) & “Somos Invisibles”: La Discriminación y los Riesgos se Multiplican para los Indígenas LGBTQ+” por Albinson Linares (Telemundo.com)
“Claudia: La Enfermera Trans que Lucha Contra el Covid en Ciudad Juárez” is an article that follows Claudia García, a trans nurse who breaks stereotypes and performs her duties in the medical field. She lives and works in a border city that has always lived under siege, especially now because of the fight against COVID-19. The heart-wrenching things Gloria must go through reach a low point when an elderly man checks into the hospital.
“Somos Invisibles: La Discriminación y los Riesgos se Multiplican para los Indígenas LGBTQ+” is a written work cataloging numerous instances of discrimination and deaths amongst Mexico’s LGBTQ+ community. This threat is rapidly increasing, and the article sheds some light on the causes and experiences of such heinous actions.