I’ve been an entertainment awards show addict for as long as I can remember. When there were trophies given out to celebrities, chances are I was watching it on TV and predicting the winners of The Oscars, Tony Awards, and Emmys in a column I wrote for my high school newspaper. Now LOGO-TV has announced nominees for what might be the gayest awards show ever – The NewNowNext Awards will be hosted on Saturday, June 7 and will be broadcast on LOGO-TV as well as streamed on the NewNowNext web site.
Manhattan party promoters Cazwell and Amanda Lepore announced the nominees online this week for categories that include “Totally Most Rad Sickest Blog Ever,” and “Brink of Fame: Filmakers, Authors, and Comics.”
The breadth and diversity of the nominees jumped out at me as representative of our community as a whole. Honorees included blogs, comics, authors, musicians, politicians, Broadway shows, and actors. Our community are huge consumers of entertainment – and to capture the attention of the full gay community, LOGO-TV focused not only on one form of entertainment, but included the entire media spectrum – online and offline.
The nominees list reads like a who’s who of gay pop culture today and it’s diverse not only in category, but in race, gender, and sexuality- another symbol of our community. From gay South Asian comic, Vidur Kapur, to transgender front man of the Cliks, Lucas Silviera, to heterosexual Oscar nominee Ellen Page, LOGO-TV did an excellent job of appealing to the full gay community and not just one subsection.
An awards show is nothing without big celebrities and LOGO-TV announced that Janet Jackson will be on hand to accept the Always Next, Forever Now award. Candis Cayne, of ABC’s DirtySexyMoney will host the event and is also nominated for “Brink of Fame: Actor” and the “Cause Your Hot” award.
I’m currently mining the nominees for new books to read, blogs to click through, and movies to add to the Netflix cue – you should check out the nominees and vote for the people’s choice winners.
No word yet if Joan Rivers will be critiquing the red carpet.
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