The Color Purple Among GLAAD Media Awards Nominees

By: Jan. 24, 2006
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GLAAD, the organization that promotes and protects gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights, has announced nominations for its 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. In addition to nominations in film and television categories, GLAAD honored a number of shows in the categories of Oustanding New York Theatre: Broadway & Off-Broadway, Outstanding New York Theatre: Off-Off-Broadway and Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre.

The awards ceremony will be held in four different cities on four different dates: March 27th in New York City, April 8th in Los Angeles, May 25th in Miami, and June 10th in San Francisco.

The hit musical The Color Purple, with a book by Marsha Norman (adapted from the novel by Alice Walker) and with a score by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, was one of the shows nominated in the category of Outstanding New York Theatre: Broadway & Off-Broadway. The others were Adam Bock's Swimming in the Shallows, Staceyann Chin's Border/Clash: A Litany of Desire, The Five Lesbian Brothers' Oedipus in Palm Springs and Billy Porter's one-man show Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am).

The nominees for Outstanding New York Theatre: Off-Off Broadway were David Johnston's Busted Jesus Comix, Christine Jorgensen Reveals (which was created by Bradford Louryk), Dress Suits to Hire by Holly Hughes in collaboration with Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Golden Age and The Lightning Field by David Ozanich.

Plays nominated for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre included Tom Jacobson's Bunbury, Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, Chay Yew's Porcelain, Colin Cox' A Pebble in My  Shoe: The Life and Times of John Shelby Spong and Sinan Unel's Pera Palas.

Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, a romance about two gay coyboys, was the most prominent of the film nominees. It joins Capote, The Family Stone, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Rent in the Outstanding Film: Wide Release category. Beautiful Boxer, Mysterious Skin, Saving Face, Transamerica and Walk On Water were nominated for Outstanding Film: Limited Release.

Hedwig and The Angry Inch's John Cameron Mitchell will receive a Special Recognition Award for directing "First Day of My Life," a music video by the band Bright Eyes, who will also be honored with a special award.

For a complete list of GLAAD Media Awards nominations, visit www.glaad.org.

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