GLAAD Media Awards

19 films • 4 awards • 15 selections

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Awards

Believer

2019•Award

A 2017 festival in Orem, Utah, aimed to support LGBTQ youth amid rising suicide rates in the state, with Dan Reynolds leading the effort.

Believer

2019 • Award

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

1993•Award

Nine Canadian women share their experiences of being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, revealing the challenges they faced in a repressive society.

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

1993 • Award

Howard

2021•Award

A recent high school graduate must choose between a summer tour of Canada and his parents' expectations for a college education in chemistry.

Howard

2021 • Award

Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

•Award

Footage shot from 2018 to 2023 follows four masculine-presenting lesbians of color as they confront challenges related to gender identity and adulthood.

Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

Year unknown • Award

Official Selections

Flee

2022•Official selection

Amin Nawabi fled Afghanistan during the 1980s Soviet invasion, sharing his story of trauma and identity through animation in a documentary lasting 89 minutes.

Flee

2022 • Official selection

Circus of Books

2021•Official selection

A couple operates a gay pornography shop in West Hollywood that becomes a cultural landmark for the LGBTQ+ community in Los Angeles.

Circus of Books

2021 • Official selection

Pray Away

2022•Official selection

Exodus International received over 25,000 letters from individuals seeking help to leave the 'homosexual lifestyle' during its peak as a conversion therapy organization.

Pray Away

2022 • Official selection

Bridegroom

2014•Official selection

A 2011 accident claimed the life of Tom Bridegroom, leaving his partner Shane Bitney Crone to confront grief and legal challenges as a gay man in America.

Bridegroom

2014 • Official selection

How to Survive a Plague

2013•Official selection

Over 700 hours of archived footage document the activism of groups like ACT UP and TAG during the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

How to Survive a Plague

2013 • Official selection

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

2021•Official selection

120 million viewers across Latin America tuned in to watch Walter Mercado's daily horoscopes during his peak as a cultural icon in the 1980s and 1990s.

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

2021 • Official selection

Tab Hunter Confidential

2016•Official selection

Tab Hunter, a 1950s heartthrob, reflects on his struggles with sexuality and public image in Hollywood, featuring insights from John Waters and Clint Eastwood.

Tab Hunter Confidential

2016 • Official selection

Howard

2021•Official selection

Ashman, renowned for his lyrics in Disney classics like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, is remembered through personal interviews and archival footage in this tribute.

Howard

2021 • Official selection

Welcome to Chechnya

2021•Official selection

More than 100 LGBT Chechen refugees escape persecution with the help of activists using hidden cameras and secret safehouses.

Welcome to Chechnya

2021 • Official selection

Chavela

2018•Official selection

Vargas, a Mexican singer and actress, is portrayed through interviews and performances that highlight her bold persona and significant cultural impact.

Chavela

2018 • Official selection

Hit So Hard

2012•Official selection

Over 100 minutes, Patty Schemel recounts her life as the drummer for Hole, detailing her rise to fame and struggles with addiction during the 1994 tour.

Hit So Hard

2012 • Official selection

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

1990•Official selection

A 48-foot memorial quilt displays panels honoring individuals who died from AIDS, featuring personal stories and statistics about the epidemic.

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

1990 • Official selection

Vito

2013•Official selection

A 93-minute documentary details the life of Vito Russo, a gay activist and author known for his work on media representation and LGBTQ+ rights.

Vito

2013 • Official selection

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

2017•Official selection

Four women were wrongfully convicted in 1997 for the alleged sexual assault of two young girls in San Antonio, Texas, amid a climate of homophobia.

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

2017 • Official selection

Kumu Hina

2016•Official selection

A Native Hawaiian teacher mentors a young girl who wants to join her school's all-male hula troupe while seeking her own romantic relationship.

Kumu Hina

2016 • Official selection

The record, year by year

Every GLAAD Media Awards title we index, 1990 to 2022: 6 awards, 15 nominations and 0 official selections across 11 years.

2022

Nominations

2021

Award

Howard

Nominations

2019

Award

Believer

2018

Nomination

Chavela

2017

Nomination

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

2016

Nominations

2014

Nomination

Bridegroom

2013

Nominations

2012

Nomination

Hit So Hard

1993

Award

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

1990

Nomination

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

How this was compiled. Our editors assembled this record together with Wikidata's structured claims (award received P166, nominated for P1411, official selection P5072), festival names and years drawn from published Wikipedia articles, and our own web research. Some entries were extracted automatically and have not yet been independently corroborated.

It describes the films we index, not the festival: a year showing one award means one award-winning title in our index, not that the festival gave one award. A further 3 entries carry no year and are not shown above.