The annual awards ceremony recognizes and honors media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community and the issues that affect their lives.
Among the nominees this year include Miley Cyrus, Sam Smith and Keiynan Lonsdale in music categories, and Happiest Season in the Outstanding Film – Wide Release category.
“During an unprecedented year of crises and isolation, the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards reached LGBTQ people with powerful stories and inspired countless others around the world with bold looks at LGBTQ people and issues,†GLAAD President & CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. “As GLAAD continues to lead the fight for LGBTQ acceptance, this year’s nominees remind us that even in times of political and cultural division, diverse LGBTQ representation and visibility can enlighten, entertain, and create lasting change.â€
The 2021 GLAAD Media Awards will be held virtually in April.
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On Thursday night (December 10), the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball concert aired on The CW, and Shawn introduced Sam‘s performance.
During his introduction, he called Sam a “he,” which is the wrong pronouns for Sam, who goes by they/them.
The next morning (December 11), Shawn posted a public apology on his Instagram story.
“Oh @samsmith I’m so sorry for referring to you as a ‘he’ for you jingle ball introduction,” Shawn wrote. “It absolutely slipped my mind. Wont happen again..Sending you so much love! Also you absolutely are one of the funniest people I’ve ever met! â¤ï¸â¤ï¸”
Samresponded a couple of hours later, writing, “We’re all learning together ðŸ¤ðŸ¤ Happy holidays, all my love xx”
If you didn’t know, both Shawn and Sam are both part of the Universal Music Group family – Shawn is on Island Records, while Sam is on Capitol Records UK.
“The video for @MSF_USA is out now! We are so grateful to all the incredible artists that said YES to doing this with us. Every dollar helps and is greatly appreciated!!! :)))” Julia shared on Twitter.
Sam Smith and Demi Lovato have become great friends in recent years, so of course she was going to introduce them to her new boyfriend Max Ehrich!
The 27-year-old singer was a guest on Andy Cohen‘s SiriusXM radio show on Friday (April 17) and they talked about getting to meet Max over FaceTime this week.
“We met last night, actually on FaceTime,” Sam said. “We all went live.”
Andy asked Sam if they approve and the response was, “I don’t know — I haven’t met them [in person]. I don’t know anything about it but it seems… they seem sweet, so sweet. She seems happy at the moment, which is the most important thing.â€
The duo’s new collab “I’m Ready” was released on Thursday afternoon (April 16) in the US.
Sam recently opened up about the new pop song with Demi.
“It’s 2020 ABBA. Do you know what I mean? It’s like, we’ve had fun doing this. I haven’t taken myself seriously. I’m nervous about the song because the song for me is a song that’s reaching,” Sam told Apple Music. “And whenever I have those… You know what I say when a song’s reaching, when it’s like you’re reaching for the stars in the melody, you’re reaching for the stars in all of it. It almost sounds a bit musical theater at times. It feels cheesy at times. And I’m trying to own that because that is a genuine feeling that comes out sometimes in the studio and it’s fun. It’s really fun to go to that place.”
“With us, with me and Demi singing, I know that we’re so inspired by those things, those musical theater. What people would in our music world we’re called cheesy is places that I go to that I enjoy going to sometimes, you know? And it’s about feeling no shame. I think this song really, for me, is about feeling no shame in some of the things that I make because I’m releasing music in a climate where music’s really cool a lot of the time. It’s really, really cool,” they continued. “It’s basically just one of my inspirations is musical theater and these types of songs that reach. And I think it’s me saying that I’m going to reach and it’s okay, you know? And it’s okay to play around and have these moments without feeling ashamed for being really pop, you know? When you see the video, you’re going to scream.”