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Leslie Jordan & More LGBTQ+ Stars Get Critics Choice Award Nominations
Here are your queer Critics Choice television nominees!
Do you hear that sound? It's award season!
The Critics Choice Awards unveiled its nominees for this year's TV Awards, giving attention to some of the year's best LGBTQ+ actors and performers. While shows like Abbott Elementary and Better Call Saul lead the nominations with six and five, respectively, queer talent is rightfully shining, and we love to see it!
Scroll through to see this year's queer Critics Choice TV nominees. And catch the Critics Choice Awards gala when it is broadcast live on The CW on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 7pm ET.
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1. Leslie Jordan
The late and great Leslie Jordan scored his first ever Critics Choice nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on Fox's Call Me Kat. Jordan had previously won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace.
2. Murray Bartlett
Bartlett is nominated again in the Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series category after winning last year for his role on The White Lotus. This year, he's up for playing choreographer Nick De Noia in Welcome to Chippendales.
3. Brandon Scott Jones
Jones is nominated for his second Critics Choice Award in a row in the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy series category for the show Ghosts. He's nominated for playing gay Revolutionary War ghost Captain Isaac Higgintoot.
4. Devery Jacobs
Devery Jacobs has earned her first Critics Choice nomination for starring in Reservation Dogs. She's up in the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category.
5. Niecy Nash
Nash was nominated for a Critics Choice Award back in 2013 for the show Getting On, and now she's back having picked up a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series for Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
6. Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen is nominated for his show Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in the Best Talk Show category.
7. Jerrod Carmichael, Fortune Feimster, Joel Kim Booster, and John Early
The Best Comedy Special category is filled with queer talent this year. Fortune Feimster, Jerrod Carmichael, and Joel Kim Booster are all nominated for their solo comedy specials this year, and John Early is nominated along with Kate Berlant for their special together.
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Mey Rude
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.