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Joy Behar, New York Times Big Winners at GLAAD Awards

by Michael Triplett | 9:20 am, March 14th, 2010

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HLN host and The View panelist Joy Behar and actress Cynthia Nixon received the top honors at the Gay an Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Awards handed out March 13 in New York. Behar won the excellence in media honors and Nixon received the Vito Russo Award for advocacy by an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender media person.

The New York Times won the award for best overall newspaper coverage, with the NYT’s Frank Rich winning for best columnist, Tara Parker-Pope winning for best newspaper article for “Kept from a Dying Partner’s Bedside” and Benoit Denizet-Lewis winning for best magazine article for his NYT magazine piece “Coming Out in Middle School.” Best television news segment went to CNN’s “Why Will Won’t Say the Pledge of Allegiiance” while Rachel Maddow won for best TV news journalism for “Uganda Be Kiddng Me.”

Outstanding digital journalism article was won by ESPN.com’s “We Love You, This Won’t Change a Thing’” by John Buccigross who told the story of Brendan Burke’s coming out to his father U.S. Olympic hockey coach Brian Burke. Brendan died in a February car crash. The award was shared with AfterElton.com’s “Why Can’t You Just Butch Up? Gay Men, Effeminacy, and Our War with Ourselves” by Brent Hartinger.

Best Spanish language newspaper article went Pilar Marrero of La Opinion to “Mas familias de dos papás o dos mamas” for a story on adoption by same-sex couples while Univision and Telemundo divided up the outstanding Spanish-language television journalism awards.

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MikeLI631

Grandma is leaving THE VIEW, to retire, AND NOW, AND THEN, HERE’S joy “MAUDE” behar !

It makes us long for the days of Virginia Graham, and Sally Jesse Raphael, don’t it ?
felixw

When activist groups with a policy agenda give out awards to journalists, they are doing us a favor. They alert us to which journalists have decided that they would rather influence the news instead of report on the news. Honestly, they should call them the Bias Awards. And no surprise to the New York Times, Rachel Maddow, Joy Behar, Frank Rich, etc. on the list of winners.
sueNaustin

This was the GLAAD Awards, what did you expect? Breitbart?
Jim R

Congrats to Joy & Rachel, wonderful people and a great cause. What could be grander than advocating human rights for all?

When they came for the gays, I said nothing because I wasn’t gay….
Snipzor

So felix, essentially all the people who aren’t biased are the people who in this case think gays are feather boa wearing fruits with high pitched voices and the supposed urge to sleep with every guy they see. Allow me to go over here and make fun of you. Enjoy your WorldNetDaily, freeper.
JVM Fan

The GLAAD awards Rock!! And Jane Velez-Mitchell was so worthy of that nomination!. Her show “Issues” is always standing up for equal rights–on every night. She is family too!!!
felixw

Snizpor, I didn’t say anything about feather boas, and in fact I didn’t say anything about sexual preference in my post. Clearly that is on your mind. I just made the obvious point that when organization who try to influence the news give out awards, they should be called the Bias Awards. Advocacy groups don’t honor journalists, except when they act as advocates, i.e., not as journalists. So it’s no surprise that Maddow, Behar, Rich, etc. walk away with these “honors”.
Snipzor

So people shouldn’t advocate for freedoms of individuals? Perhaps it’s better that we have advocates of gay rights in the media, as opposed to a bunch of people who are likely to make a “The Homosexuals” report. If you don’t get that reference, that’s okay, I don’t expect you to. But the point of this is to show that there are advocates in the media, these awards are positive sanctions to those aspiring to go into media, and so on and so forth. You get what I’m trying to say… I hope.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

This is the biggest joke ever. Joy Behar is a lunatic.