Disney Earns Most Nominations for 37th GLAAD Media Awards

Arica Conrad

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Disney Earns Most Nominations for 37th GLAAD Media Awards

Nominations for the 37th GLAAD Media Awards have been announced, and the Walt Disney Company scored the most nominations out of any platform or network.

GLAAD Media Awards

37th annual GLAAD Media Awards logo.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) media advocacy organization, with a mission to “accelerate acceptance and understanding for LGBTQ people through visibility in media.” GLAAD’s Annual Media Awards honor “outstanding fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues in film, television, gaming, music, podcasting, journalism, Spanish-Language media, and more.”

For this year’s 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, the Walt Disney Company was nominated 30 times across ABC, Disney+, Disney Channel, Disney Jr., Freeform, Hulu, and National Geographic, the most nominations out of any platform or network.

Disney has nominations in the following categories:

Outstanding Comedy Series

  • Abbott Elementary (ABC)
  • Big Boys (Hulu)

Outstanding Drama Series

  • Doctor Who (Disney+)

Outstanding Reality Competition Program

  • Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
  • Project Runway (Freeform)
  • I Kissed a Boy (Hulu)
  • I Kissed a Girl (Hulu)

Outstanding New TV Series

  • Chad Powers (Hulu)
  • Mid-Century Modern (Hulu)

Outstanding New TV Series

  • Chad Powers (Hulu)
  • Mid-Century Modern (Hulu)

Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series

  • Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu)

Outstanding Documentary

  • Sally (National Geographic)

Outstanding Children’s Programming

  • Firebuds (Disney Jr.)
  • Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures (Disney Jr./Disney+)

Outstanding Kids & Family Programming – Live Action

  • Goosebumps: The Vanishing (Disney+/Hulu)
  • “Selamiut” Washington Black (Hulu)

Outstanding Kids & Family Programming – Animated

  • The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (Disney+)
  • Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Disney Channel)
  • The Bravest Knight (Hulu)

Outstanding Variety or Talk Show Episode

  • “Guest Host Alan Cumming on Attacks Against the Trans Community & Bringing Kindness Back in America” Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
  • “Laverne Cox and George Wallace Star In Norman Lear’s Final Show, ‘Clean Slate'” The View (ABC)

Outstanding TV Journalism – Long-Form

  • “‘HIV Unwrapped’ +Life” (Hulu / ABC Localish)
  • “Late to the Party: Coming Out Later in Life” (ABC)
  • “Pride 2025 – Rise Up: Pride in Protest” (ABC 7 New York)
  • “Living Proof” (Hulu)

Outstanding TV Journalism – Segment or Special

  • “Final ride from SF to LA for AIDS/LifeCycle, but the fight to end HIV/AIDS continues” (ABC 7 San Francisco)
  • “High Stakes at the Supreme Court: Conversion Therapy” ABC News Live (ABC)
  • “LGBTQ-inclusive mass held in Rome” Good Morning America (ABC)

You can view the full list of nominations for the 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards here.

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