Joy Behar, New York Times Big Winners at GLAAD Awards

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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