Event Listing - City Events, Gay
Sat May 10

The 19th Annual

GLAAD Media Awards


Tel. 877.519.7904
Email GLAAD Media Awards
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Tickets

Location
Date and Time
San Francisco Marriott
55 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: Mission
district: South Beach

Sat May 10 (5pm - 12am)

Description
WHAT: The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

WHEN: Saturday, May 10, 2008

4:00pm Media Check-In

5:00pm Arrivals & Cocktails

7:00pm Dinner & Awards Ceremony

WHERE: San Francisco Marriott

WHO: Sharon Stone will receive the Vanguard Award. Focus Features CEO, James Schamus, will receive the Golden Gate Award. Jennifer Beals will present the Davidson/Valentini Award to Ilene Chaiken. Judith Light will present the Pioneer Award to David Mixner. Mayor Gavin Newsom will present a Special Recognition Award to *Theater Rhinoceros. Candis Cayne (/Dirty Sexy Money/) will host the event, and musician Dave Koz will perform. Guests include: Alan Cumming; Jason Lewis; Rex Lee; J.P. Calderon (/The Janice Dickenson Modeling Agency/); David Bromstad (/Color Splash/); GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. More names to be announced.

MORE: Award recipients in the following categories will be announced onstage at the San Francisco event: Outstanding TV Movie, Mini-Series or Anthology* (Daphne, The DL Chronicles, The State Within), Outstanding Talk Show Episode ("Born in the Wrong Body" The Oprah Winfrey Show, "Gay Around the World" The Oprah Winfrey Show, "Gay Athletes & Rappers: It's Not In to be Out" The Tyra Banks Show, "Growing Up Intersex" The Oprah Winfrey Show, "Transgender Kids" The Tyra Banks Show), Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage *(The Advocate, CosmoGIRL!, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Us Weekly), and Outstanding Advertising – Electronic ("Change" Levis, "Goodbye" Orbitz, "Jewels" & "Time" Dolce & Gabbana, "Rejected" Chemistry.com, "Tu Pride - Jaime" MTV Tr3s). A complete list of nominees can be found at www.glaad.org/mediaawards.

The New York GLAAD Media Awards event took place on March 17 at the Marriott Marquis, and the South Florida event took place on April 12 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The Los Angeles event will take place on April 26 at the Kodak Theatre.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. For more information on the awards, nominees and on purchasing tickets, please visit www.glaad.org/mediaawards.