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Black Mirror’s Lesbian Love Story ‘San Junipero’ Wins Two Emmy Awards

Netflix’s sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror took two awards at last night’s Emmys, with show creator Charlie Brooker winning both Outstanding Television Movie and an Outstanding Writing award for the episode San Junipero.

The winning episode, San Junipero, was a stark departure from the show’s usual blend of sci-fi and horror.

Starring Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the episode was hailed as a classic immediately for the way that it combines Black Mirror’s trademark futuristic vision with a beautifully told love story.

It tells the love story of two women Kelly and Yorkie (Mbatha and Davis), whose realities are not quite what they seem, but whose love is very real.

Brooker told the Emmys audience.

San Junipero was a story about love – and love will defeat hatred, love will win,”

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Though Brooker originally conceived the story with a heterosexual couple, he thought twice about his own assumptions and decided to make his lovers women.

He told EW

I think it gives it an extra resonance, because they couldn’t have legally got married in [the real] 1987, so we’re gifting them that in this world, in this story of second chances. That adds a whole extra subtext about reliving your life and exploring things you didn’t have a chance to do.”

Mbatha-Raw adds

It’s about human beings and love and souls. And it’s not about [sexuality] being a problem. That wasn’t the focus of the story and I think that’s actually really refreshing.”

The upbeat tone also moves the show away from the “dead lesbians” TV trope, where a disproportionate number of lesbian characters are killed off tragically onscreen.

Brooker conceived the happy ending partially to subvert that trope – though technically both characters do die to achieve their idyll.

Lea DeLaria | Best Dressed Butch And Winner At The SAG Awards

At this Sunday’s SAG Awards, the OITNB team took home the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, but what was so great about this award is the fact the team emphasize the importance of diversity on-screen.

DeLaria is a s diverse as they get on the hollywood scene, but that is why we love her. Especially the way she represents our community.

Always stunning in suit, with her beautiful girlfriend by her side, DeLaria does not shy her queerness from the camera.

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She is open and frank about who she is, and projects this with such confidence that we can’t help but smile.

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In a past interview with the UK paper the Independent, she said about her style

“There is a ceiling that allows you to be a certain kind of gay. I’m not a lapdog cut person and I won’t tow the party line. People don’t want you to rock the boat. Even the modern queer movement have a problem with that. When you look like me, you want to act in a certain way.

There are two types of lesbians or dykes – the type that go to the Emmys wearing a tuxedo but don’t wear the bow tie, and those that do – the unapologetically butch.”

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“Being butch is still a dirty little secret, but it’s how some of us are. We can’t forget where we came from. We need to put a positive face on it and it all comes from this international homophobia, that are only certain things are good; that you can’t be that type of lesbian.

It’s important for me to communicate that there’s nothing bad about being gay.”

Lea DeLaria

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Award Season And ‘Orange is the New Black’ Ladies Come Out To Win At The Screen Actors Guild Awards

Television and movie stars walked the red carpet at Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards in LA, but like always it was the ladies of Litchfield who stole the show.

Season three of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black will be with us this summer, and then there is the new addition of Ruby Rose set to cause the a stir, however to keeps us all going the cast and crew were out in force at the latest Award show.

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It was a great night for Netflix, as it cemented itself as a major player, with OITNB picking up it first Screen Actors Guild prizes.

Uzo Aduba was named Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her role as Suzanne, aka Crazy Eyes. The actress couldn’t hold back her tears in her acceptance speech, thanking her costars and those who have supported her.

“Oh my God. I really, truly do not know what to say, I just wanna say thank you so much to the Screen Actors Guild for this incredible honor. I want to thank Jenji Kohan for writing a show like this and putting something like this on television, not just for myself but for our incredible team of actors to be seen in such a beautiful way.”

Uzo Aduba

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Uzo with winning, as Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series also went to the entire cast meaning everyone was a winner.

 

 

Transparent Awarded 5 Dorians by Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics, and Ava DuVernay Named Best Director

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA) has announced its winners for its annual Dorian Awards.

The organization is comprised of over 110 movie and TV critics nationwide. The awards are handed out to 25 different categories, which include both mainstream and LGBTQ-centric films and TV shows. Awards include everything from Rising Star to Music Video of the Year.

This year, the GALECA gave Selma‘s director Ava DuVernay the Film Director of the Year award, which is great news considering she was overlooked for an Oscar in this category.

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was awarded the Film of the Year award.

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Julianne Moore took Film Performance of the Year – Actress, for her performance in Still Alice, and Eddie Redmayne, who plays Stephen Hawking in the biopic The Theory of Everything, beat Benedict Cumberbatch, to take Film Performance of the Year — Actor award.

The British film Pride, was recognised as the Unsung Film of the Year and the LGBTQ Film of the Year

In TV categories, Transparent won five awards, including TV Comedy of the Year, and creator Jill Soloway was named Wilde Artist of the Year, which honors a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theater and/or television.

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Other TV Shows such as HBO’s Normal Heart, CW’s Jane the Virgin, and Lisa Kudrow’s Comeback were also recognized.

Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods won the Campy Flick of the Year and gay director Xavier Dolan’s Mommy was awarded for Foreign Language.

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George Takei, who was also the subject of a documentary in 2014, was given the organization’s Timeless Award, which is presented to an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom, and wit.


 

GALECA’S 2014/15 Dorian Award Winners:

Film of the Year: Boyhood, director Richard Linklater

Film Performance of the Year – Actor: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Film Performance of the Year – Actress: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Film Director of the Year: Ava DuVernay, Selma

LGBTQ Film of the Year: Pride

Foreign Language Film of the Year: Mommy, director Xavier Dolan

Unsung Film of the Year: Pride

Documentary of the Year (theatrical release, TV airing, or DVD release): The Case Against 8 – HBO

Visually Striking Film of the Year (honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography): The Grand Budapest Hotel

Campy Flick of the Year: Into the Woods

TV Drama of the Year: The Normal Heart – HBO

TV Comedy of the Year: Transparent – Amazon

TV Director of the Year: Jill Soloway, Transparent

TV Performance of the Year – Actor: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

TV Performance of the Year – Actress: Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback

TV Musical Performance of the Year: Neil Patrick Harris, “Sugar Daddy,” The Tony Awards

LGBTQ TV Show of the Year: Transparent

Unsung TV Show of the Year: Getting On – HBO

TV Current Affairs Show of the Year: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Campy TV Show of the Year: Jane the Virgin

Music Video of the Year: Sia, “Chandelier”

The “We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award: Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin

Wilde Wit of the Year (honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse): John Oliver

Wilde Artist of the Year (honoring a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theater, and/or television): Jill Soloway

Timeless Award: George Takei

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association Announce Nominations for 2014 Film and TV Awards

Dubbed the Dorian Awards, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA), which comprises of over 100 stateside critics and entertainment journalists, has revealed its first round of picks for the best in 2014 film and TV.

‘Birdman’ starring Michael Keaton, which won screenplay and actor honors at the Golden Globes last night, leads the way with four nominations. ‘Pride’ is also nominated for Best Film, alongside ‘The Imitation Game’, ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ and, ‘Boyhood’, which all won big at the Globes.

On the TV side, Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany has been nominated for best TV actress alongside Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder) and  Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback). Lisa Cholodenko’s HBO miniseries’Olive Kitteridge’, starring Francis McDormand, is up for two awards. And fellow filmmaker Jill Soloway’s celebrated ‘Transparent’ leads the way with five nominations.

Orange Is The New Black is up for 2 awards LGBTQ TV Show and TV Comedy of the Year, but suprisingly know of the key actress who star in the show are nominated.

One winner is known already: George Takei, Star Trek icon and LGBTQ-rights activist, has been named Timeless Star. GALECA has previously awarded such luminaries as Lily Tomlin and Sir Ian McKellen their version of a career achievement honor.

This season’s winners will be announced next Tuesday, January 20.


The complete list of Dorian Award nominees is below.

Film of the Year

Birdman – Fox Searchlight
Boyhood – Sundance Selects/IFC
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight
The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Pride – CBS Films


Film Performance of the Year – Actor

Steve Carell, Foxcatcher – Sony Pictures Classics
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler – Open Road
Michael Keaton, Birdman – Fox Searchlight
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything – Universal


Film Performance of the Year – Actress

Essie Davis, The Babadook – Sundance Selects/IFC
Anne Dorval, Mommy – Lionsgate
Julianne Moore, Still Alice – Sony Pictures Classics
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl – 20th Century Fox
Reese Witherspoon, Wild – Fox Searchlight


Film Director of the Year

Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight
Ava DuVernay, Selma – Paramount
David Fincher, Gone Girl – 20th Century Fox
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman – Fox Searchight
Richard Linklater, Boyhood – Sundance Selects/IFC


LGBTQ Film of the Year

The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Love is Strange – Sony Pictures Classics
Pride – CBS Films
Stranger by the Lake – Strand Releasing
The Way He Looks – Strand Releasing


Foreign Language Film of the Year

Force Majeure – Magnolia Pictures
Ida – Music Box Films
Mommy – Lionsgate
Stranger by the Lake – Strand Releasing
Two Days, One Night – Sundance Selects/IFC


Unsung Film of the Year

Obvious Child  – A24
Love is Strange – Sony Pictures Classics
Pride – CBS Films
The Skeleton Twins – Roadside Attractions
Snowpiercer – Radius/TWC


Documentary of the Year 

The Case Against 8 – HBO
CitizenFour – Radius/TWC
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me – Sundance Selects
Life Itself – Magnolia Pictures
Regarding Susan Sontag – HBO


Visually Striking Film of the Year

Birdman – Fox Searchlight
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight
Interstellar – Paramount
Snowpiercer – Radius/TWC
Under the Skin – A24


Campy Flick of the Year

Annie
Gone Girl
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Tammy


TV Drama of the Year

Fargo – FX
The Good Wife – CBS
How To Get Away with Murder – ABC
Mad Men – AMC
The Normal Heart – HBO


TV Comedy of the Year

The Comeback – HBO
Modern Family – ABC
Orange is the New Black – Netflix
Transparent – Amazon
Veep – HBO


TV Director of the Year

Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge – HBO
Jodie Foster, Orange is the New Black -Netflix
Andrew Haigh, Looking – HBO
Ryan Murphy, The Normal Heart – HBO
Jill Soloway, Transparent – Amazon


TV Performance of the Year – Actor

Matthew Bomer, The Normal Heart – HBO
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective – HBO
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart – HBO
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards – Netflix
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent – Amazon


TV Performance of the Year – Actress

Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder – ABC
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback – HBO
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife – CBS
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black – BBC America
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge – HBO


TV Musical Performance of the Year

Beyonce, MTV Video Music Awards – MTV
Neil Patrick Harris, “Sugar Daddy,” The Tony Awards – CBS
Jessica Lange, “Life on Mars,” American Horror Story: Freak Show – FX
Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Madonna, et al., “Same Love,” The Grammys – CBS
Prince, Saturday Night Live – NBC


LGBTQ TV Show of the Year

Looking – HBO
Modern Family – ABC
Orange is the New Black – Netflix
Please Like Me – Pivot
Transparent – Amazon


Unsung TV Show of the Year 

Getting On – HBO
Looking – HBO
Orphan Black – BBC America
Please Like Me – Pivot
Transparent – Amazon


TV Current Affairs Show of the Year

Anderson Cooper 360 – CNN
The Colbert Report – Comedy Central
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – Comedy Central
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – HBO
The Rachel Maddow Show – MSNBC


Campy TV Show of the Year

American Horror Story: Freak Show
How to Get Away with Murder
Jane the Virgin
Peter Pan Live!
Penny Dreadful


Music Video of the Year

Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”
Perfume Genius, “Queen”
Sia, “Chandelier”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
Meghan Trainor, “All About That Bass”


The “We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award

Ansel Elgort
Jack Falahee
Ellar Coltrane
Jack O’Connell
Gina Rodriguez
Finn Wittrock


Wilde Wit of the Year 

Stephen Colbert
Rachel Maddow
Bill Maher
John Oliver
Jon Stewart


Wilde Artist of the Year 

Xavier Dolan
Neil Patrick Harris
Richard Linklater
Jill Solloway
Tilda Swinton


Timeless Award 

George Takei