
The Dorian TV awards will stream live on, the Revry YouTube channel as well as Planet Out and hosted by Karel. GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, is comprised of over 300 entertainment journalists in the U.S. “I’m going to keep trying my best and instill hope.” “There’s a generation behind me that needs to know what transness looks like,” she said. Nick Kroll, co-creator and starring voice of Netflix’s animated series Big Mouth, joined trans actress Josie Totah ( Saved by the Bell)-who guest-voices as a trans teen on the hit-for a talk about the importance of representation and how “cartoons” can be more unbridled than live-action shows in addressing societal issues.Īs previously announced, actress-singer Michaela Jae (Mj) Rodriguez received GALECA’s second-ever LGBTQIA Trailblazer Award “for creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity.” In her interview segment, Rodriguez, the first transgender actress to be nominated for a leading-actress Emmy (for Pose), embraced her status as a role model. Yang, who tied in the category with Coel, said he happened to be a major fan of the award’s namesake, Oscar Wilde, so his Dorian Award win felt “a little too on-the-nose.”Īccepting RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Best Reality Show win, season 13 contestant Kade Gottlieb-without the elaborate makeup and glitter of his drag persona Gottmik-attested in a chat to just how wild and real the VH1 phenomenon’s backstage drama is. Yang, who scored big laughs on SNL last season personifying the (somewhat bitter) iceberg that sank the Titanic and helping skewer corporate America’s appropriation of Pride Month, won the Society’s special Wilde Wit accolade, presented by his NBC series costar Punkie Johnson. The star opened up about her influences and how she hopes to inform and bring disparate sides together via humor. In a special segment, fresh comedian Ziwe discussed the impetus behind her Showtime series ZIWE, a topical hybrid of sketch comedy and issue-minded talk shows. Accepting on behalf of Destroy’s team was the drama’s Dorian-nominated costar Paapa Essiedu. The actress, beloved in series from Designing Women to Legion, made a point to give special thanks to her on-screen foil Hannah Einbinder-who later made a surprise appearance in the virtual toast.ĭestroy, meanwhile, slayed the likes of Marvel’s ambitious superhero fantasy WandaVision and HBO’s Kate Winslet-driven mystery Mare of Easttown to earn Best TV Movie or Miniseries. The star’s sly performance in Hacks as a sitcom ingénue turned jaded, if super-rich, standup comic dovetailed with her freshman HBO Max hit’s win for Best TV Comedy. Smart won Best TV Performance, as did, in a rare tie, Michaela Coel, star-creator of HBO’s semi-autobiographical I May Destroy You.

This marks the series’ third Dorian win in the category. The Society chose the highly emotional final season of FX’s groundbreaking Pose-about an LGBTQ clique navigating AIDS, bigotry and drag-ball culture in ‘80s and then ‘90s New York-as Best TV Drama. and beyond, go to all of film and TV, mainstream to LGBTQ (the film awards are held in spring).

The awards, voted upon by GALECA’s 320 members in the U.S. Bullock ( Too Close for Comfort) all helped present this latest Dorians program. Multi-award winning actress Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Beals (currently starring in Showtime’s The L Word: Generation Q), iconic actress-singer Olivia Newton-John, Tituss Burgess ( Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), The Nanny’s Fran Drescher, rapper and reality star Big Freedia ( Big Freedia Bounces Back), SNL cast member Punkie Johnson, Pose costar Leyna Bloom (recently the first transgender woman to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue), Big Sky’s Jesse James Keitel, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (of the new Disney+ sitcom update, Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.), ABC entertainment reporter Karl Schmid, actor-comic John Lehr (Hulu’s Quick Draw) and TV icon Jim J. Veteran West Coast radio personality and LGBTQ rights activist Karel was the pre-recorded special’s lively host. Who) were some of the notables expressing gratitude in GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorians TV Toast 2021, a mix of award reveals, interview segments and entertainment that subscription channels Here TV and YouTube’s PlanetOut broke from custom to air free tonight. Venerable actress Jean Smart, Saturday Night Live wit Bowen Yang, rising satirist Ziwe, Pose co-creator Steven Canals, teen heartthrob Michael Cimino of Hulu’s Love, Victor, and revered British TV writer Russell T Davies ( Queer as Folk, Dr. The winners of the Dorian TV Awards, from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, were announced today where Pose and WandaVision led the nominations with six and five apiece, respectively.
