GLAAD Winners

The 2009 GLAAD Award winners are featured on this page. Winners are honored for their positive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in the media. The remainder of the winners will announced on May 9, 2009 in San Francisco, California.

• Kathy Griffin received the Vanguard Award

• Tyra Banks received the Excellence in Media Award

• Suze Orman received the Vito Russo Award

• Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award

• The L Word received a Special Recognition Award

• Prop 8: The Musical received a Special Recognition Award

• The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later - The Lasting Legacy of Matthew Shepard received a Special Recognition Award

• Phil Donahue received a Special Recognition Award

• Brian Graden received the Vito Russo Award

• Wilson Cruz received the Visibilidad Award

• Janet Jackson received the Vanguard Award

• Rufus Wainwright received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award

• Herb Ritts received the Pioneer Award

• Ilene Chaiken received the Davidson Valentini Award

• David Mixner received the Pioneer Award

• Vanguard Award - Kathy Griffin

• Excellence in Media Award - Tyra Banks

• Vito Russo Award - Suze Orman

• Stephen F. Kolzak Award: The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson

• Special Recognition: The L Word

• Special Recognition Prop 8: The Musical

• Special Recognition - The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later - The Lasting Legacy of Matthew Shepard (Sirus XM Radio)

• Special Recognition - Phil Donahue

• Milk - WINNER

• Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom - TIE

• Shelter - TIE

• Desperate Housewives

• The New Adventures of Old Christine - "Unidentified Funk"

• Affinity

• East Side Story

• Ice Blues: A Donald Stachey Mystery

• Oh Happy Day

• On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery

• A Jihad for Love

• America's Next Top Model

• I Want to Work for Diddy

• Kathy Giffin: My Life on the D-List

• Shirts and Skins

• Transamerican Love Story

• As The World Turns

• Ellen & Portia's Wedding Day - "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"

• Becoming - Channel 3 News

• Born in the Wrong Body - All in the Family, MSNBC

• Funding the Marriage War- In the Life, PBS

• George Takei and Brad Altman - The Early Show, CBS

• The Whispers- Outside the Lines, ESPN

• Special Comment: Prop 8 - "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", MSNBC

• Owning His Gay Identity at 15 years Old - Theresa Vargas, "The Washington Post"

• Leonard Pitts, Jr. -The Miami Herald

• The New York Times

• Let God Love Gene Robinson" - Andrew Corsello, "GQ Magazine"

• Newsweek

• Gay Athletes Are Making Their Mark - LX Granderson, ESPN.com

• Is Gay the New Black? - Jessica Bennet and Jennifer Molina, Newsweek.com

• K.D. Lang - Watershed

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Drew Goddard, Jeph Loeb and Joss Whedon, Dark Horse Comics

• I Don't Judge - Ikea

• Logo Unbuttoned - Levi's

• Market - Chemistry.com

• We All Walk In Different Shoes -Nina Poon, Kenneth Cole

• Rugby Drinking Party - Jawbone

• First Comes Love. Then Comes Marriage. - Macy's

• Home for the Holidays - Swanson

• Rings - Paris Las Vegas

• We All Walk In Different Shoes - Kenneth Cole

• Will You Marry Me? - Absolut Vodka

• As Much As You Can - Paul Oakley Stovall

• Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead - Bert V. Royal

• He Asked for it - Erik Patterson

• The Little Dog Laughed - Douglas Carter Beane

• Secrets of the Trade - Jonathan Tolins

• Wig Out

• Arias with a Twist

• Stardust

• The Bubble

• For the Bible Tells Me So

• Ugly Betty

• Brothers & Sisters

• "Do Tell" from Boston Legal

• The DL Chronicles

• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

• "Born in the Wrong Body" on The Oprah Winfrey Show

• As The World Turns

• "The First Casualty" by Anderson Cooper on CNN

• The New York Times

• "Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight" by Jane Gross in The New York Times

• Christine Daniels from the Los Angeles Times

• The Advocate

• "Dying to Come Out: The War on Gays in Iraq" by David France in GQ

• "Gay Newsmen - A Clearer Picture" by James Hillis

• "Uncovering America: Fighting for Acceptance" on CNN.com

• Rufus Wainwright for Release the Stars

• Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore

• "Change" by Levis

• The Beebo Brinker Chronicles by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman

• BASH'd: A Gay Rap Opera by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow with music by Aaron Macri

• Avenue Q, book by Jeff Whitty, music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx