The winners of the GLAAD Media Awards (glaad.org)had been introduced final night time, recognizing initiatives throughout completely different media classes that remember and supply correct, inclusive illustration of the LGBTQ+ group.
This 12 months’s animated standout was Dino Ranch (Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker; Disney Junior), which one the Excellent Youngsters’s Programming prize for the episode “Adoptosaurus Rex,“ which contains a male same-sex dinosaur couple who need to increase a dino egg of their very own.
Additionally nominated within the class had been Sesame Avenue “Household Picnic” (HBO Max), Firebuds (Disney Junior), Strawberry Shortcake: Berry within the Large Metropolis (Netflix) and Pinecone & Pony (Apple TV+).
The GLAAD Media Awards additionally acknowledge queer-positive work in sequential storytelling. This 12 months’s winners are:
- Excellent Comedian Ebook: Poison Ivy by G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara, Atagun Ilhan, Brian Stage, Stefano Gaudiano, Jay Leisten, Arif Prianto, Ivan Plascencia, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (DC Comics)
- Excellent Unique Graphic Novel/Anthology: Younger Males in Love (A Wave Blue World)
Minority-owned, tech-driven Hispanic digital media firm Canela Media is celebrating the success of its first authentic animated sequence, SúperEllas, which has been chosen as one in every of this 12 months’s Gracie Awards winners (allwomeninmedia.org). Introduced by the Alliance for Girls in Media Basis (AWMF), the awards acknowledge exemplary programming created by, for and about ladies in all aspects of media and leisure. The winners will probably be celebrated on the Gracies Gala on Might 23 on the Beverly Wilshire lodge.
“We’re so thrilled to have delivered to life SúperEllas, an exquisite sequence for our Canela Children viewers to study these seven Latina trailblazers in a enjoyable and colourful manner,” stated Maggie Salas-Amaro, Director of Canela Children. “Canela Media labored hand in hand with the female-led manufacturing firm Upstairs to develop and produce the sequence. SúperEllas is a really particular venture for us at Canela Media and having been acknowledged by The Gracie Awards is a unbelievable validation of the optimistic affect and resonance it has generated.”
The forty eighth Gracie Awards additionally acknowledged YouTube Originals’ hybrid children’ sequence, Tab Time, produced by Children at Play, Tabitha Brown and Scale Productions.
