GLAAD Awards find film lacking, honor LGBTQ representation on TV
The GLAAD Media Awards are intended to celebrate LGBTQ representation, but the announcement of this year’s came with a depressing statistic: Just two films are up for the outstanding wide release award. (As GLAAD notes, 2003 was the last time that category had that small a number of eligible nominees.) The those movies are the Oscar-nominated Moonlight, a richly told story about growing up black and gay in Miami, and Star Trek Beyond, which revealed that John Cho’s Sulu is gay. (That announcement itself was surprisingly controversial, as out actor and activist George Takei took issue with how it was introduced.) The limited-release category is more populated, and features The Handmaiden, Naz & Maalik, Other People, Spa Night, and Those People.