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Last night, LGBTQ media organization GLAAD hosted its 32nd annual GLAAD Media Awards, where The Last of Us Part 2 and Tell Me Why teamed up to receive the Outstanding Video Game Honor. The Outstanding Video Games category was added in 2018 and has already been awarded to The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset and The Outer Worlds. The award aims to honor LGBTQ inclusion and fair and accurate representation in the game. Dontnod’s Tell Me Why was honored for its portrayal of Tyler, a transgender man who returns to his hometown with his twin sister to revisit their complex and shared family history. Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2 was celebrated for Ellie and Dina, two women portrayed in a complex, emotional and often tender relationship throughout the game, and Lev, a young transgender man whose storyline focuses heavily on his identity and whose portrayal has been both popular and critical by the trans community.
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Other nominees for Outstanding Video Game this year included Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft), Borderlands 3: Guns, Love, and Tentacles (Gearbox Software & 2K Games), Bugnsax (Young Horses), Hades (Supergiant Games), If Found … (Dreamfeel and Annapurna Interactive), Ikenfell (Happy Ray Games and Humble Games), Immortals Fenyx Rising (Ubisoft) and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands (Blizzard Entertainment). GLAAD has many other categories beyond video games, and the awards have celebrated films like Happiest Season (Outstanding Film – Wide Release), TV series like Schitt’s Creek (Outstanding Comedy) and Star Trek: Discovery (Outstanding Drama) , and children’s programs like The Not Too Late Show with Elmo (exceptional children’s programming). The full list of winners is as follows:
- Outstanding Movie – Wide Release: The Happiest Season (Hulu / TriStar Pictures)
- Outstanding Movie – Limited Release: The Boys of the Group (Netflix)
- Outstanding Documentary: Disclosure (Netflix)
- Outstanding Comedy Series: Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
- Outstanding Drama Series: Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
- Outstanding TV Movie: Uncle Frank (Amazon Studios)
- Limited or exceptional anthology series: I May Destroy You (HBO)
- Outstanding Reality Program: We Are Here (HBO)
- Outstanding Kids’ Programming: The Not Too Late Show with Elmo (HBO Max)
- Exceptional programming for children and family [TIE]: Day One (Hulu) and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (DreamWorks Animation / Netflix)
- Outstanding Musical Artist: Sam Smith, Love Goes (Capitol)
- Outstanding Breakthrough Musical Artist: CHIKA, Industry Games (Warner Records)
- Outstanding video game [TIE]: Tell Me Why (DONTNOD Entertainment & Xbox Game Studios) and The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog & Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Outstanding Comic: Empyre, Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling, Empyre: Aftermath Avengers, by Al Ewing, Dan Slott, Chip Zdarsky, Anthony Oliveira, Valerio Schiti, Manuel Garcia, Cam Smith, Marte Gracia, Triona Farrell, Joe Caramagna, Ariana Maher, Travis Lanham (Marvel Comics)
- Exceptional variety or talk show episode: “Lilly responds to comments about her sexuality” A little late with Lilly Singh (NBC)
- Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: “Dwyane Wade One-On-One: Basketball Legend Opens Up On Supporting Transgender Girl” Good Morning America (ABC)
- Outstanding TV Journalism – Long Form: “ABC News Joe Biden Town Hall” (ABC)
- Outstanding Print Article: “20 LGBTQ + People Working to Save Lives on the Frontlines” by Diane Anderson-Minshall, David Artavia, Tracy Gilchrist, Desiree Guerrero, Jeffrey Masters, Donald Padgett and Daniel Reynolds (The Advocate)
- Outstanding Global Magazine Coverage: People
- Outstanding Online Journalism Article: “Gay men speak out after being barred from donating blood during coronavirus pandemic: ‘We are turning down perfectly healthy donors'” by Tony Morrison and Joel Lyons (GoodMorningAmerica.com)
- Outstanding Online Journalism – Video or Multimedia: “Stop Killing Us: The Lives of Black Transgender Women” by Complex World (Complex News)
- Exceptional blog: TransGriot
- Barbara Gittings Award for Excellence in LGBTQ Media: Windy City Times
- Special Recognition: After Forever (Amazon)
- Special Recognition: Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast
- Special Recognition: Happiest Season’s Soundtrack (Facet / Warner Records)
- Special Recognition: Noah’s Arc: The ‘Rona Chronicles (Patrik Ian-Polk Entertainment)
- Special Recognition: Out (Pixar / Disney +)
- Special Recognition: Razor Tongue (YouTube)
- Special recognition: “The Son” Little America (Apple TV +)
- Outstanding TV Series Written in Spanish: Veneno (HBO Max)
- Exceptional Spanish TV Journalism: “Aleyda Ortiz’s sister tells how she came out of the closet and how she communicated it to her family” Despierta América (Univision)
- Outstanding article from online journalism in Spanish: “Disappeared in Mexico, only her remains were found: the story of Dr María Elizabeth Montaño and its importance to the trans community” by Albinson Linares and Marina E. Franco (Telemundo.com)
- Outstanding Online Journalism in Spanish – Video or Multimedia: “I’m Trans: The Road to a New Awakening” by Sarah Moreno, Esther Piccolino and José Sepúlveda (El Nuevo Herald)
- Special recognition (in Spanish): Jesse & Joy, “Love (Es Nuestro Idioma)”
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Rebekah Valentine is a journalist at IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.
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