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Did you miss the GLAAD Media Awards on Friday? Here are two more chances to watch on Bravo. Set your DVR!

Monday, June 30, 8am, Bravo

Tuesday, July 1, 11am, Bravo

And here's a little something to hold you over: Sex & the City's Jason Lewis backstage at the GLAAD Media Awards."We all want the same thing: love."

The show has begun on Bravo! Here's a look at Janet Jackson on the red carpet so you don't have to wait two hours until the end of the awards.

by David A. Lee & Daniel Vaillancourt
Originally appeared in Palm Springs' The Desert Sun

Sometimes you have to leave Los Angeles to have a peak Hollywood experience. Last August, we sold our West Hollywood duplex and relocated full-time to Palm Springs (where we met ten years ago), taking the film and TV projects we had in development with us.  Weeks later, the writers strike hit.  Though the work stoppage is behind us, we—and Tinseltown—have yet to fully recover.
  
That’s why we felt so fortunate to land one of the greatest gigs of our professional lives soon after an accord was reached between producers and the Writers Guild of America last February:  We were hired by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation as the sole writers of the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, to be broadcast tonight for the first time on Bravo, potentially reaching into 84 million homes across America.

GLAAD—whose mission is to promote and ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive portrayals of LGBT people and events in the media as a way of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation—is definitely Hollywood.  Each year, its increasingly star-studded GLAAD Media Awards honor those doing the right thing—online, in print, radio, TV, and film.

But for all its glamour, GLAAD is also definitely not Hollywood.  For one, the people of GLAAD are kinder—and could teach Tinseltown powers-that-be a thing or two about the care and feeding of writers.  We heard “Please” and “Thank you” from GLAAD infinitely more than we ever have on producer/director conference calls, at studio meetings, or in network TV writing rooms.  We felt appreciated.  Respected.  Wow!

We can’t wait to relive it all tonight.  We promise the show will be funny and moving—and hope you have as much fun watching it as we did writing it.

David A. Lee and Daniel Vaillancourt—who were married in Vancouver, Canada in 2004—serve as the co-vice chairs of the Gay & Lesbian Writers Committee of the Writers Guild of America.

On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with South of Nowhere's Gabrielle Christian and Maeve Quinlan. Gaby went on to present on stage with Degrassi's Adamo Ruggiero and GREEK's Paul James. South of Nowhere has been nominated for two GLAAD Media Awards and returns to The N this fall for its final season.

It's here! It's here!!! After months of anticipation, the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards are finally airing TONIGHT on Bravo at 7 PM ET/PT. You've seen the backstage footage, the fabulous photos -- maybe you even attended one of the ceremonies in person -- but now it's time to sit back, make yourself an Absolut martini, and watch the highlights from this year's Media Awards.

19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (Bravo, 7 PM ET/PT) PREMIERE
GLAAD's annual awards ceremony honoring media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives is airing for the first time on Bravo. Special guests include Janet Jackson, Ellen DeGeneres, Rufus Wainwright, Sharon Stone, Cindy Crawford, Tom Ford, Kathy Griffin and many more.

After that, you KNOW you aren't changing the channel. Here's why:

Brokeback Mountain (Bravo, 9 PM ET/PT) BASIC CABLE PREMIERE
The critically acclaimed, Academy Award®-winning film, which also received the award for Outstanding Film - Wide Release at the 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, makes its basic cable premiere.

Think you've seen Brokeback one too many times? We dare you to watch the official trailer without getting teary-eyed.

We can't get enough of As the World Turns' Nuke, so on the eve of the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, here is another peek of Jake Silbermann (Noah) and Van Hansis (Luke) --- offering a great synopsis of their tortured soap romance.

Jay Manuel on the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with stars from Degrassi: The Next Generation, Lauren Collins and Adamo Ruggiero. Lauren dishes on her bling while Adamo talks about what it's like to be an out actor and role model.

Jay Manuel on the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with the women from The L Word, creator Ilene Chaiken and star Jennifer Beals. "It's so important to be telling our stories," says Chaiken about LGBT media images. 

Jay Manuel is on the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with Emmy-winner Kathy Griffin. Kathy talks about a gay cruise to Bora Bora, bears -- and how she may just be more gay than Jay!

On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, former GLAAD honoree, comedienne Kate Clinton, discusses homophobia vs. homo-ignorance.