The GLAAD Media Awards were created in 1989 to honor individuals and projects in the media and entertainment industries for their balanced and accurate representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards are sponsored in part by Absolut and American Airlines. Additional sponsors include ABC Entertainment, American Media, Entertainment Weekly, Hanson Jacobson and Teller, Harmony Gold, Lyn and Norman Lear and, Leslie Accountancy, Sid Sheinberg, Sony and Wells Fargo.

GLAAD is the largest lesbian and gay media advocacy organization in the nation. GLAAD promotes fair, accurate and inclusive representations in the media as a means of challenging discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity. Founded in 1985 by a group of writers, including the late Celluloid Closet author Vito Russo, who were outraged by the defamatory headlines about AIDS in the New York Post, GLAAD mobilized to change the way lesbians and gay men are represented in all forms of media. Today, GLAAD is a national organization that effectively mobilizes public response to media coverage and educates media professionals on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community's issues and concerns. GLAAD has offices in Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC.

For further information and to purchase tickets for the New York ceremony, please contact GLAAD's New York office at 212/807-1700. For information for Washington, DC contact the DC office at 202/986-1360. And for information and tickets for Los Angeles, contact Levy Pazanti and Associates at 888/655-6529.

General event and ticket information for this year's GLAAD Media Awards can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.glaad.org.

THE 1998 GLAAD MEDIA AWARD NOMINEES:

OUTSTANDING FILM (Wide Release):
As Good As It Gets
In & Out
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
My Best Friend's Wedding

OUTSTANDING FILM (Limited Release):
All Over Me
Bent
Different For Girls
Lilies
My Life in Pink (Ma Vie En Rose)

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY:
Behind the Music: Boy George (VH1)
Hide and Seek (PBS)
I Shall Not Be Removed (PBS)
Licensed to Kill
Paul Monette: Brink of Summer's End (Cinemax) OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE:
Any Mother's Son
Breaking the Code
In the Gloaming
Twilight of the Golds

OUTSTANDING TV DRAMA SERIES:
ER (NBC)
413 Hope Street (Fox)
NYPD Blue (ABC)

OUTSTANDING TV COMEDY SERIES:
Ellen (ABC)
Mad About You (NBC)
Spin City (ABC)
Suddenly Susan (NBC)

OUTSTANDING TV INDIVIDUAL EPISODE:
HBO Comedy Hour "Drop Dead Gorgeous (A Tragicomedy): The Power of HIV-Positive Thinking" (HBO)
The Practice "Civil Rights" (ABC)
The Simpsons "Homer's Phobia" (Fox)
South Park "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" (Comedy Central)
Xena: Warrior Princess "Here She Comes, Miss Amphipolis" (Syndicated)

OUTSTANDING TV TALK:
RuPaul Show "The Family Show"
Geraldo "Ellen Coming Out: Celebration or Catastrophe?"
Oprah Winfrey Show "Ellen's Coming Out" Episode

OUTSTANDING DAYTIME DRAMA:
All My Children (ABC)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM:
20/20 (ABC) - "TOPS Cops"
20/20 (ABC) - "Married Lesbians Come Out"
Legal Cafe (Court TV) - "Domestic Partnership"
Entertainment Tonight (syndicated) - Body of Work
AIDS: A Journal of Hope (Time Warner/NY1)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC:
Ani DiFranco Living in Clip
Erasure Cowboy
Indigo Girls Shaming of the Sun
Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope
White Town Women in Environment/ Technology

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE:
"Her Son/Daughter" New York Times Magazine
"A Daughter's Story" Seventeen Magazine
"I'm Just Like Any Other Mom" McCall's
"1997 Entertainer of the Year" Entertainment Weekly
"Yep, I'm Gay" Time Magazine

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE:
Time Magazine
The Progressive
Advertising Age

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
"Death of a Sailor" by Cheryl Lavin (Chicago Tribune)
"What A Difference A Modem Makes" by Matthew McAllester (Newsday)
"A Self Made Man" by David Tuller (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Nowhere to Hide: When Love Turns Mean" by Katherine Seligman (San Francisco Examiner)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMN/ COLUMNIST:
Clarence Page "What Kids and Their Parents Should Know About Gay Rights" (Tribune Media Service)
"Outlooks" (Miami Herald)

OUTSTANDING COMIC:
The Invisibles
The Flash
Superboy and the Ravers
For Better or For Worse

OUTSTANDING INTERACTIVE MEDIA:
Ann On-Line
gay.com
GLORadio
Sol's Activist Page
Oasis Magazine

OUTSTANDING LA THEATER PRODUCTION:
The Sum of Us
Mountains
Gay 90's Musical
Rent
The Normal Heart

OUTSTANDING NY THEATER PRODUCTION:
A Question of Mercy
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Hedwig & The Angry Inch
In-Betweens
Tell-Tale