The list of nominees for the GLAAD Media Awards has been released, and we are proud, surprised, and humbled to announce that The New Civil Rights Movement is one of five sites nominated for Outstanding Blog. This is GLAAD’s 23rd annual award, and this year there are 161 nominees across 35 categories. We are honored to be included with the other nominees in the Outstanding Blog category, all of whom are exceptional and unique: The Bilerico Project, Mombian, Rod 2.0, and Towleroad. Rod McCullom, who publishes Rod 2.0, was also nominated in the Outstanding Magazine Article category for “Making It Work,” in Ebony.
“The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives,” GLAAD said in a statement yesterday:
GLAAD Media Awards nominees are selected by Nominating Juries using the following four criteria:
- Fair, Accurate and Inclusive Representations – Rather than portraying the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in broad stereotypes, the project deals with the characters or themes in a fair, accurate, and multi-dimensional manner. Inclusive means that the diversity of the LGBT community is represented.
- Boldness and Originality – The project breaks new ground by exploring LGBT subject matter in non-traditional ways and handles the LGBT content in a fresh and original manner.
- Impact – The project has significant cultural impact. The media project dramatically increases the cultural dialogue about LGBT issues, or reaches an audience that is not regularly exposed to LGBT images and issues.
- Overall Quality – A project of extremely high quality adds significance to the images and issues portrayed and draws more viewers or readers to the material. Fair, accurate and inclusive images may be weakened when they are part of a poor-quality project.
In 1990, Phil Donohue was a recipient of the first annual GLAAD Media Awards, in New York City. At the 20th Awards ceremony, Donohue, a 2009 Honoree, looked back and said, “It’s unbelievable to think about the power and the warp speed of this revolution.” GLAAD has played a major role in the fight for equality.
The New Civil Rights Movement is an online news and opinion website focused on news, politics, and issues that affect the LGBT community. Published regularly since November, 2008, The New Civil Rights Movement now has 20 contributing writers, and is one of the fastest-growing LGBT-focused news sites in the nation.
The New Civil Rights Movement bridges the gap between LGBT blogs and mainstream news sites, which helps both LGBT and non-LGBT people see and understand our issues more clearly. The New Civil Rights Movement has been cited by Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish, Salon.com, and The Wall Street Journal, and repeatedly has been labeled “Best Opinion†by The Week, and recognized as “one of the smartest sites on the web†by the editor in chief of 365Gay​.com, “a go-to blog for both reports and analysis of the most recent gay politics,” and “thoughtful, probing,†by Mediaite, and “very smart†by Joe.My.God., last year’s winner of the GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Blog category.
From Politico to The Washington Post to The Washington Examiner, The New Civil Rights Movement has been quoted nationally and internationally. Some of our most-popular recent work includes an in-person interview with Dan Savage, an open letter about homosexuality to Herman Cain from a black, gay man, an analysis of the future of LGBT journalism, which included interviews with nine LGBT publishers and authors, and our highly-cited op-ed on why Kim Kardashian’s divorce is an excellent example of why same-sex marriage is not what threatens the institution of traditional marriage.
For more about The New Civil Rights Movement, visit our Media page.
Our deepest and sincerest thanks to all the fine people at GLAAD, for all they do for our community.