Advocate, ABC, and MSNBC Lead Noms In 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards

GLAAD's annual awards recognizes and honors media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBT people and their lives. The organization has just released the nominees for its 27th year, a wide-ranging list that pays tribute to the richly diverse nature of society, something that mainstream awards programs have largely failed to appreciate.

Spread across numerous categories, media outlets like MSNBC and the New York Times picked up a few nominations each, with our sister publication, The Advocate, included in the category of Outstanding Overall Magazine Coverage. The Advocate.com series, "The Ky Peterson Saga," by Mitch Kellaway and Sunnivie Brydum, was also nominated for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article.

Nominees in some of the bigger categories include:

Outstanding Film--Wide Release

Carol

The Danish Girl

Dope

Freeheld

Grandma

Outstanding Film--Limited Release

52 Tuesdays

Appropriate Behavior

Boy Meets Girl

Drunktown's Finest

Tangerine

Outstanding Comedy Series

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Faking It

Grace and Frankie

Looking

Master of None

Modern Family

Orange is the New Black

Please Live Me

Transparent

Vicious

Outstanding Drama Series

Arrow

Black Sails

Empire

The Fosters

Grey's Anatomy

How to Get Away with Murder

Nashville

Orphan Black

Sense 8

Shameless

Outstanding Reality Series

I Am Cait

I Am Jazz

New Girls on the Block

The Pracing Elites Project

Transcendent

Outstanding Music Artist

Brandi Carlile, The Firewatcher's Daughter

Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz

Adam Lambert, The Original High

Le1f, Riot Boi

Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood

For the full list of nominees, visit GLAAD's website.