Beane, Rosie's Family Cruise, Etc. Win GLAAD Media Awards

Douglas Carter Beane, Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan, Frank Rich and the HBO documentary "All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise" are among the winners of GLAAD Media Awards, according to GLAAD's website.
 
Whoopi Goldberg, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Hudson and John Waters were among the dozens of celebrities who joined the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) as it honored Patti LaBelle, Tom Ford, Kate Clinton and the best in film, television and journalism last night at the 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York.
 
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives.

Beane's The Little Dog Laughed and Gold and Ryan's 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother tied in the category of Outstanding New York Theatre - Broadway and Off-Broadway.  Rich, the former theatre critic who is now an acclaimed political columnist for The New York Times, won Outstanding Newspaper Columnist.  "All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise," an HBO documentary about the landmark R Families Vacation cruise for gay people and their families that Rosie and wife  Kelli O'Donnell launched in summer of 2004, won Outstanding Documentary.  David Johnston's Candy and Dorothy won Outstanding New York Theatre: Off-Off-Broadway.
 
A complete list of award-winners follows:

Excellence in Media Award: Patti LaBelle (presented by Jennifer Hudson)
Vito Russo Award: Tom Ford (presented by Julianne Moore)
Pioneer Award: Kate Clinton (presented by Cynthia Nixon)

Outstanding Film – Limited Release:  Quinceañera (Sony Pictures Classics)
Outstanding Documentary:  All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (HBO)
Outstanding Reality Program:  Project Runway (Bravo)
Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage:  Details
Outstanding Spanish-Language Variety Program Segment:  "María Belén Correa" Mapiando (Azteca América)
Outstanding Daily Drama:  All My Children (ABC)
Outstanding Talk Show Episode:  "Wives Confess They are Gay" The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)
Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine:  "Forbidden Love" Nightline (ABC)
Outstanding Newspaper Article:  "Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn't Clear" by Patricia Leigh Brown (The New York Times)
Outstanding Newspaper Columnist:  Frank Rich (The New York Times)
Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage:  Los Angeles Times
Outstanding Magazine Article:  "The Pressure to Cover" by Kenji Yoshino (The New York Times Magazine)
Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia:  "Being a Gay Black Man" by Ben de la Cruz, Pierre Kattar and Sholnn Z. Freeman (WashingtonPost.com)
Outstanding Music Artist:  Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah
Outstanding Advertising – Print:  "Bear" Marc Jacobs
Outstanding Los Angeles Theater:  Bluebonnet Court, by Zsa Zsa Gershick
Outstanding New York Theater:  Broadway & Off – Broadway:  TIE:  25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Kate Moira Ryan with Judy Gold and The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane
Outstanding New York Theater:  Off – Off Broadway:  Candy and Dorothy by David Johnston

Visit www.glaad.org for more information.

Photo of Douglas Carter Beane by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.