Today, GLAAD announced its nominees for the best in LGBTQ representation in all forms of media. According to Joe Palmer, the criteria for nomination are:
1) Fair, Accurate and Inclusive Representations: Rather than portraying the LGBT community in broad stereotypes, the project deals with the characters or themes in a fair, accurate, and multi-dimensional manner. (This is different than a “positive role model.”) Inclusive means that
the diversity of the LGBT community is represented. This includes economic, geographic, and political diversity, as well as people of color, seniors, differently abled, etc.
2) Boldness and Originality: The project breaks new ground by exploring LGBT subject matter in a way not traditionally explored, and handles the LGBT content in a fresh and original
manner. Is this project cutting-edge?
3) Impact: The project impacts society in a significant way. Does this project
dramatically increase the cultural dialogue about LGBT issues? Or, does this project reach an audience that is not regularly exposed to LGBT images and issues?
4) Overall Quality: The overall quality of the project is considered. A project which is of extremely high quality adds impact and significance to the images and issues portrayed. Fair, accurate and inclusive images can sometimes be weakened when they are part of a poor-quality project.
Of course, I went right to this category:
OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
The Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames (Vertigo/DC Comics)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Drew Goddard, Jeph Loeb and Joss Whedon (Dark Horse Comics)
Final Crisis: Revelations by Greg Rucka (DC Comics)
Secret Six by Gail Simone (DC Comics)
Young Avengers Presents by Ed Brubaker, Brian Reed, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Paul Cornell, Kevin Grevioux and Matt Fraction (Marvel Comics)
I’ve never read The Alcoholic, so I can’t speak to that, but I’d cast my votes for either Final Crisis: Revelations (because it’s the most comprehensible and exciting of the whole Final Crisis extravaganza) or Secret Six (because I love Gail Simone). Buffy hasn’t been doing it for me the last few issues, so I can’t believe it’s a serious contender (Ooh! The ego!). And if GLAAD nomination refers to the chaste Young Avengers Presents with Wiccan (and a momentary appearance by his “boyfriend” Hulkling), which was a mess on so many levels, then they must really be desperate.
Of all the film nominated:
OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
Brideshead Revisited (Miramax Films)
Milk (Focus Features)
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Columbia Pictures)
RocknRolla (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company)
OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
The Edge of Heaven (Strand Releasing)
Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom (New Open Door Productions)
Save Me (First Run Features)
Shelter (Regent Releasing)
XXY (Film Movement)
I’ve seen two – Milk and Shelter. As much as I loved Milk, Shelter needs to win. I found it to be one of the most honest and moving gay love stories I’ve seen in years. No one died. No one was abused. No one got some random chick pregnant to prove he’s a real man. It avoided all the stereotypes rife in gay media like (dare I say it?) Noah’s ARC. Ugh! Terrible terrible terrible!
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
The L Word (Showtime)
South of Nowhere (The N)
Torchwood (BBC America)
True Blood (HBO)
Go Brothers & Sisters!!!!!
For Down the Rabbit Hole Day I offer this:
speeding down the frontage road of 290 in a red convertible john mused my sister had a cock like a baked potato. he dangled precariously over the door. which reminds me, he diverged, you know how when you’re in cross country, they say you should run like you have a baked potato on your forehead?
no, i replied, a bus coming dangerously close to his head.
it helps you find the wall of pain. he was quiet for a second as he turned a corner. the first time i saw my sister’s cock was freshman year during recess.
* * * *
dressed in homemade bellbottoms and a patchwork shirt, addy would play her bongos by the trampoline on the playground. a blunt hung from her lips like soft cereal hung from gramma’s. she sang tunelessly her version of hotel california:
come and take a hit off my joi-oint
only ten dollars
(only ten dollar)
plus some change
you’ll be so high you won’t believe it
seniors there’s a bit of surcharge attached so it’ll be eleven dollars but hey! hello freshmen! first jump is free. yeah yeah, see you on the streets.
john and jeremy hung on the monkey bars, fascinated by addy’s balls and her business aplomb.what do you think of my sister? john asked jeremy.
she ‘s ok, he noncommittally commented.
woooly steve popped up behind the boys. they could hear his felt cap itching. dark talon! he exclaimed. when wooly steve’s eyes got wide like that it meant he was in love. what about janice? john asked.
he shrugged.
i can’t believe my sister is your back-up hippie!
he shrugged again, like california. john went to addy for the lunch money she had bullied from him earlier. their mom would give her what-for if he fainted in english class. before john could beg, science teacher howard hesseman, his long hair rustling in the trees approached the siblings. i need one of you to show me your cock. he said without preamble. it’s for my afternoon class.
yeah. right. here ya go, addy said dropping her trousers. john stared. he was unsettled by the wave of jealousy he felt. how could his sister be better hung than he was? her cock was bulbous and long tapering down to a mushroom head. uncut. of course. there was no denying its resemblance to an idaho russet. herman hesseman snapped a few shots, then said, see ya in chemistry.
* * * *
i found out later mom’s was like an acorn squash. i stared incredulously. dad told me, john explained.
can you keep your eyes on the road, please? i asked, wondering how i could get addy’s phone number from him. and a stick of butter.
