LGBTQ critics announce winners of Dorian TV Awards

By JOHN PAUL KING

They don’t get as much fanfare as the Emmys, but the Dorian TV Awards – presented annually by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics – have been offering an important queer perspective on the best in the year’s television for a decade and a half, and they’ve just picked their latest round of champions.

On June 26, GALECA announced a slate of winners for the 15th Annual Dorian TV Awards that represented an the prize for Best Drama while series star Sarah Snook following a clique of idealistic Philadelphia school teachers, took Best Comedy Series.

Less in line with mainstream Hollywood priorities, perhaps, many other awards went to an assortment of under-seen standouts. Amazon Freevee’s audacious prank absurdly snarky showbiz satire (and sadly, now-cancelled) glish Language Show, respectively. Director Andrew

GALECA voters seemed to favor dry-but-witty women in most of the performance categories; Bridget Everett Lead, Jennifer Coolidge for Best Supporting Drama per- commentary, sketch and topical interviews, received the Dorian for Best Current Affairs Show – its third win in the

Horror was also a running theme, with Shudder’s doc(from TV mastermind Bryan Fuller) taking the Dorians for both Best TV Documentary and Best LGBTQ Documen- unique to the Dorians, though that might go without saying. guez and Jerrod Carmichael. performer, writer or commentator whose observations venerable comedian whose year has included memora- for her well-intentioned but controversial rap tribute to Angela Bassett and other nominees at the BAFTA Film

Striking TV Show.

Other noteworthy wins: Satirist Ziwe Fumudoh’s (also

Year, an award whose past recipients include Christine Baranski and Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a Elvira). Elliot Page, whose superhero character Viktor Hargreeves came out on Hulu) and Shudder each grabbing two – a clear victory for streaming platforms over traditional network TV.

For those unfamiliar with the Dorians, in addition to its TV awards GALECA (originally founded in 2009) also and Off-Broadway Theatre. They bring recognition to exchosen from mainstream and queer + content alike by a ots and society’s currently beleaguered LGBTQ communities that the world has long appreciated the Q+ eye on The organization also advocates for better pay, access and respect for its members, especially those in its most underrepresented segments, and sponsors the Crimson Honors, a public college criticism contest for women or support the members and causes of GALECA by follow– and of course, by visiting GALECA.org.