Stories of people living with HIV among 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees
Today, GLAAD announced the nominees for the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, and the list includes several stories of LGBTQ people living with HIV or AIDS.
ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder, Amazon’s Transparent, and Showtime’s Shameless are the only scripted series on television to include HIV-positive characters. Oxygen’s The Prancing Elites Project includes dance team member Kareem Davis, who is HIV-positive. In HBO’s Looking: The Movie, nominated for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series, featured the wedding of a serodiscordant couple, Eddie — a character who is HIV positive — marries his partner Agustín.
Nominated for Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia, “No Access: Youth, Black & Positive” of Tonic.Vice.com explored why HIV disproportionately affects black gay and bisexual men in the U.S. South.
The Nation earned a nod for “HIV Mystery: Solved?” by Tim Murphy, an article on increasing access to PrEP — a pill taken once a day to prevent HIV infection — for black gay and bisexual men. SFChronicle.com‘s “Last Men Standing: AIDS Survivors Still Fighting for Their Lives,” by Erin Allday, featured several elder gay men who have been living with HIV for decades and shed light on their needs not being addressed by the city.
Other nominees highlighting HIV issues include HBO’s Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures and Outstanding Blog nominees My Fabulous Disease and I Am Josh.
Since its foundation, GLAAD has worked to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment. In 2015, GLAAD and The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation released a public service announcement (PSA) in an effort to reignite the passion and action needed to beat the HIV and AIDS epidemic. GLAAD has also created a guide for reporting HIV & AIDS-related stories in the news to help end the negative stigma associated with the disease. Click here to learn more about GLAAD’s HIV resources.
For a complete list of nominees, click here
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD’s work to amplify stories from the LGBTQ community and issues that build support for equality and acceptance.
The GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held in Los Angeles on April 1, 2017 at The Beverly Hilton and in New York on May 14 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Find out how you can buy tickets or host a table here.
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