This year marked GLAAD’s 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, showcasing a variety of individuals for their contributions to queer storytelling in Film, TV, News, and so much more. The GLAAD Media Awards, which helps fund GLAAD’s work in LGBTQ+ acceptance and media visibility took place in Los Angeles on March 13, 2024, and in New York on May 11, 2024. This year’s Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards was hosted by Wayne Brady, and honored Oprah Winfrey and Niecy Nash-Betts with the Vanguard Award and the Stephen F. Kolzack Award respectively.
In addition to being nominated, they have also been honored and celebrated at GLAAD Communities of Color & Media Team’s 3rd Annual #GLAADHonors celebration on March 13, 2024, in Los Angeles at the GLAAD Media Awards. This event is intentionally geared to recognize Black LGBTQ+ nominees of the GLAAD Media Awards for their efforts and contributions to the Black LGBTQ+ Community.
In light of Women’s History Month, below are this year’s Black Women whose work in queer storytelling and characters played a part in history and the nominations for the GLAAD Media Awards this year:
Jerrie Johnson and Grace Byers in Harlem
Isis King in With Love
LaShay Anderson in Black Cake
Alexandra Shipp in Anyone But You
Brittany Adebumola in The Other Black Girl
Lenna Waithe, Tyler Abercrumbie, Miriam A, Hyman, and L'lerret Gazelle for The Chi
Karla-Simone Spence in The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress in Yellowjackets
Jayme Lawson in How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Aye Edebiri in Bottoms
Kristen Lovell's The Stroll
Koko Da Doll, Dominque Silver, Daniella Carter, and Liyah Mitchell in Kokomo City
Kisha Batista in The Aggressives: 25 Years Later
Ice Spice
UMI
Iniko
Victoria Monet - Jaguar II
Janelle Monae - The Age of Pleasure
Heartstopper
TransLash
"Certainty" Turning the Table with Robin Roberts
Samantha Cherry (Washington Post)
Myeshia Price (TIME)
T'Nia Miller in The Fall of the House of Usher
