This year’s GLAAD Media Award nominees include a record 10 shows selected for the Outstanding Kids & Family Programming category, reflecting the increased number of LGBTQ characters in children’s television. Read on to see who made the list.
GLAAD tells us that the category grew “as a result of an increase in LGBTQ images across the kids and family television programming and an increase in GLAAD’s work to advocate for inclusion in this genre.” The nominees are:
- Andi Mack (The Disney Channel)
- The Bravest Knight (Hulu)
- High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Disney+)
- The Loud House (Nickelodeon)
- “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone” Arthur (PBS)
- Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling (Netflix)
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix)
- Steven Universe: The Movie (Cartoon Network)
- “A Tale of Two Nellas” Nella the Princess Knight (Nick Jr.)
- Twelve Forever (Netflix)
These are all great shows and any one would be deserving of an award. Simply having so many to choose from is a victory for us all. Maybe next year they’ll even have enough entries to offer separate categories for both series and individual episodes, as they do for grown-up television.
I also want to give a shout out to the nominees for Outstanding Blog, a category I was honored to win in 2012. It’s great to see so many fine blogs still going strong:
- Gays with Kids
- JoeMyGod
- My Fabulous Disease
- Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
- TransGriot
Here’s a video with the full list of award winners–congratulations all!
