GLAAD Media Awards: June 2008 Archives
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."
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 VaillancourtOriginally 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.
On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, ally Garry Marshall talks about his history with the organization, how large the awards has grown, and free Absolut.
Record breaking temperatures of 119 degrees at their home in Palm Springs may have them sweating, but Daniel Vaillancourt and David
A. Lee may have also broken a sweat a time or two as the writers of the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which air Friday at 7 pm ET/PT on Bravo.
Featured in the new issue of The Bottom Line Magazine (the story can currently be viewed here), the longtime couple both professionally and personally reveal the process they went through to script the Media Awards in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and how they are looking forward to the Bravo telecast -- an edit of the LA and NY events -- to see what makes it to television.
“We’re as excited as anyone, because we haven’t seen it!” Daniel told The Bottom Line. “People have asked us if we’re going to be having a screening party, and we’re like, ‘No, we don’t want to be distracted. We just want to watch it, because there were so many good moments in both shows—in all three shows—that it’s going to be a surprise to us to see what made it into the broadcast.”
One of their favorite parts of working on the Media Awards was working with Candis Cayne (Dirty Sexy Money), who hosted the San Francisco awards. “She was our host in San Francisco, so we had to build a whole show for her, and while that’s not going to be in the broadcast
it was a delight to work so closely with her and to become her friend," Daniel said.
"We worked hard to make her shine, because she really was the ringmaster
at that show.”
Featured in the new issue of The Bottom Line Magazine (the story can currently be viewed here), the longtime couple both professionally and personally reveal the process they went through to script the Media Awards in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and how they are looking forward to the Bravo telecast -- an edit of the LA and NY events -- to see what makes it to television.
“We’re as excited as anyone, because we haven’t seen it!” Daniel told The Bottom Line. “People have asked us if we’re going to be having a screening party, and we’re like, ‘No, we don’t want to be distracted. We just want to watch it, because there were so many good moments in both shows—in all three shows—that it’s going to be a surprise to us to see what made it into the broadcast.”
One of their favorite parts of working on the Media Awards was working with Candis Cayne (Dirty Sexy Money), who hosted the San Francisco awards. “She was our host in San Francisco, so we had to build a whole show for her, and while that’s not going to be in the broadcast
it was a delight to work so closely with her and to become her friend," Daniel said.
"We worked hard to make her shine, because she really was the ringmaster
at that show.”
On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with honoree Judy Shepard.
On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with Jay Manuel, Ugly Betty stars Becki Newton and Michael Urie dish about who's got the look.
Backstage at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York City with Broadway stars Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu) and Anthony Rapp (Rent). What musical may have one of them bellowing, "I can't quit you!"?
Past GLAAD honoree Alec Mapa on the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in NYC. The Ugly Betty star is often confused with another Asian Pacific Islander actor---and he'll be the first to tell you they are two different people.
Join Entourage's Rex Lee on the red carpet at the 19h Annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco.
On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with Project Runway's Tim Gunn. "I'm just thrilled to be able to say that I support this organization," he says about GLAAD, "and that they in turn support what we do."
Jay Manuel's on the red carpet with Brothers & Sisters' star Ron Rifkin at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles. Rifkin's character, Uncle Saul, is network television's only gay character over the age of 60. And, shocker alert, someone's turning 70 soon!
Dirty Sexy Money star Candis Cayne on the red carpet with Jay Manuel at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles. What really goes on at Whole Foods?
On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in NYC with Eduardo Xol from ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, Jay Manuel chats with honoree Rufus Wainwright and his partner Jorn Weisbrodt. Rufus received the GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award.
On the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in NYC with comedienne Kate Clinton, winner of the GLAAD Pioneer Award in 2007.
Jay Manuel is rocking the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles with Emmy-winner Leslie Jordan, the star of the new Logo series Sordid Lives.
Behind the scenes at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York with GLAAD Vito Russo Award honoree Brian Graden, MTV Networks President of Entertainment.
Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York City.
The ally's Oscar-winning documentary Freeheld is currently airing on Cinemax.
The ally's Oscar-winning documentary Freeheld is currently airing on Cinemax.
As the World Turns' Jake Silbermann, Tala Ashe and Van Hansis at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York.
Today we kick off a Pride Month worth of original backstage footage from the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Check back daily and be sure to watch Friday, June 27 at 7pm ET/PT on Bravo.
Today we kick off a Pride Month worth of original backstage footage from the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Check back daily and be sure to watch Friday, June 27 at 7pm ET/PT on Bravo.
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