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Knowledge is Power!
San Antonio native Jade Esteban Estrada will host the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on the Bravo Network on Friday, June 27, 2008. The gala awards show recognizing and honoring media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives will air Friday, June 27, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT. For more information visit http://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/19thAnnual/SoFLAwardsPost.php.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a national media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, has presented the GLAAD Media Awards annually since 1990.
“This year’s extraordinary nominees and honorees for the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards exemplify the important strides we have made as a community toward creating a truly inclusive society,” said GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. “Thanks to our partnership with Bravo, on June 27 the GLAAD Media Awards will be available to over 84 million homes, giving people across the country a chance to celebrate these media images and their creators. Our community has made such incredible strides toward equality because our stories have been told in fair, accurate and inclusive media — from journalism to TV storylines to film. Bravo’s acclaimed programming has already shown that TV can portray gay and transgender people fairly and accurately with amazing success.”
The special will include award presentations from the four ceremony locations – New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and South Florida. Estrada hosts the South Florida segment.
Celebrities scheduled to appear include Kevin Bacon; Billy Baldwin; Jennifer Beals; Candis Cayne; Ilene Chaiken; Cindy Crawford; Wilson Cruz; Alan Cumming; Loretta Devine; Sally Field; Tom Ford; Brian Graden; Kathy Griffin; Mariska Hargitay; Laurel Holloman; Janet Jackson; Randy Jackson; T.R. Knight; Alec Mapa; David Mixner; Graham Norton; Jai Rodriquez; Zoe Saldena; James Schamus; Judy Shepard; Kyra Sedgwick; Sharon Stone; Joss Stone; Sofia Vergara; Barbara Walters and Rufus Wainwright.
The special will be immediately followed by the basic cable premiere of the critically acclaimed, Academy Award®-winning film Brokeback Mountain, which also received the award for Outstanding Film - Wide Release at the 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.
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 about the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, please visit www.glaad.org/mediaawards.
About Bravo
Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBC cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com.
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Publicist Nikki Young of the San Antonio-based PrimaDonna Productions walks the red carpet with Jade Esteban Estrada at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Hollywood, Florida. Photo by PEDRO PORTAL.
Comedian Jade Esteban Estrada hosts the 19th Annual South Florida GLAAD Media Awards. Photo by JOHN PARRA.
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