GLAAD announced its nominees for the 19th annual GLAAD Media Awards yesterday in Sundance. We've included the entire list after the jump, but we'd like to point out that trans issues and people have a special presence:

…Material based on transgender issues has earned a number of nominations this year — most notably the work of columnist Christine Daniels in the LA Times, nominated as Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. Daniels received a fair bit of media attention in April 2007 as male sportswriter Mike Penner, who revealed in a surprising column that he was a transsexual male and would be undergoing a sex-change operation. Penner returned to the LAT — and her sports column — as Christine Daniels after the surgery and now blogs about her transition the blog, "A Woman In Progress." Similarly-themed articles in Newsweek, the St. Petersburg Times, and Salon and on TV on MSNBC, the Tyra Banks and Oprah Winfrey shows, 20/20 and the now-defunct Paula Zahn Live on CNN were also honored.

If only GLAAD honcho Neil Giuliano and his gays were running Congress, huh?

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A new Harris Interactive poll ranks Ellen DeGeneres as television's most popular star:

Ellen DeGeneres has vaulted to the top spot in The Harris Poll’s annual favorite television star list after five years in the bottom five, including last year‘s tie for the number eight position. And, after five years as number one, Oprah Winfrey drops to second place this year.

Ellen better watch her lady loving back, because Oprah's going to be coming for it.

Here's the PDF of the full press release.

Roseanne Barr's never been a shrinking violet, but her latest rant is beyond heavy-handed. The comedienne took to her blog to take on presidential candidate Barack Obama and his medial mogul booster Oprah. Preemptive sic:

barak obama is an empty suit selling "hope" in lieu of Truth. Oprah Winfrey helped to elect Arnold Swartzenegger. I have no doubt that she voted her purse by doing this, as she is a large land owner in California, and that ilk fears Dems because they do not want to pay their "fair share" of Cali tax.
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Oprah, you play the race card and the gender card too.

You are a closeted republican and chose Barak Obama because you do not like other women who actually stand for something to working American Women besides glamour, angels, hollywood and dieting!

Roseanne's blog has since been suspended. Don't fuck with Oprah.

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Hillary Clinton received quite the celebrity endorsement this week. Madonna, queen of the gays, has put all her super star power behind Clinton's presidential campaign. From NYDN:

Madonna will help Hillary Clinton combat the Oprah-powered campaign of Barack Obama. Her Madgesty, whose charity work in Malawi has been supported by Bill Clinton's foundation, tells us she stands ready to serve.

Will Madonna's power be enough to beat Oprah? We're not holding our breath, but we appreciate her gumption.

• It's hard to believe, but the Bid2Beat AIDS eBay auction still hasn't exhausted its vast resources of collectibles. Today we're favoring this Patti Lupone-signed Evita poster. It doesn't get any gayer than that. Current bid: $177.50. You know you want it.

• Anti-gay priest Anthony Priddis "sorry" for not hiring homo.

• Yves Saint Laurent awarded France's Legion of Honor award.

• What if Mormons took over American culture?

• Remembering Ali Forney.

• Being trans at Columbia University.

• PageSix.com imploding already?

• How much can Oprah help Obama?

• Why Woody Harrelson "disavowed" The Walker, in which he plays gay.

• You really do learn something new everyday. Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, whose work we've never read, apparently likes ladies. She liked a woman so much, in fact, she married one! Cornwell opens up to UK's Telegraph about her wife, Dr. Staci Gruber:

I finally feel rooted somewhere. I feel a sense of responsibility and stability that I didn't have before.
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I've never been a soapbox person for gay rights, but now I'm in a same-sex marriage I tend to be more open, because I am outraged that it should be illegal in other states.

Looking at this picture really puts things in perspective.

• Refinery 29 gets behind our imaginary main squeeze, Thom Browne.

• Barack, Babs, Oprah and Hillary get into a campaign menage-a-quatre.

• Legendary lobbyist Aubrey Sarvis goes after Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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• Armani Exchange model Clint Mauro lets you in on an undie shoot.

• Will writer's strike squash CBS' presidential debate?

• Jossip editors Debbie Newman and Rebecca Aronauer talk turkey.

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• Mary J's new video for "Just Fine"!

• Gay paper Outlook refuses to endorse Republican queer Bill Brownson. Says co-publisher Michael Daniels:

We started the process, as the queer newspaper, hoping we could endorse the queer candidate. But we were not going to endorse someone based purely on their sexual orientation.

They will, however, endorse every Democrat in the district. Hmmm…

• Mitt Romney endorsed by anti-gay Bob Jones University.

• The outs and outs of Oprah's gay show.

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• PoliticsTV.com breaks down Larry Craig's interview with Matt Lauer.

• Kenneth in the (212) had more fun at Lance Bass' book party than we did…

• Gay politico and former House Rep Jim McDermott moves into Senate.

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You've probably heard - and forgotten - that Oprah's getting all sorts of gay today. The talk show maven will be taking viewers around the world for a fabulous tour, including a sit down with Indian Prince Manvendra and former b-baller John Amaechi.

The big O also takes a look into gay Iran. Someone tell Mahmoud!

What does Oprah's political love for Obama mean for the gays?

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Sexy singer Justin Timberlake took a seat on Oprah's famed couch yesterday. And, of course, Oprah ventured into previously forbidden territory: Timberlake's storied romance with train wreck Britney Spears.

Read the lackluster exchange, after the jump.

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Oprah has announced that Barack Obama's the only presidential candidate welcome on her famous stage:

If everybody knows I’m for Barack it would be really disingenuous of me to be sitting up there interviewing other people as though… pretending to be objective. So I won’t be doing anybody because of that, on my show.

Since when has Oprah ever pretended to be objective?

When Oprah talks, people listen - but sometimes not closely enough. The media maven to the pages of this month's O to yet again let the world know that she and gal pal Gayle King aren't secret labia lickers.

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This shit's like clockwork. One day after Dina Matos-McGreevery griped that her gay soon-to-be ex, Jim McGreevey hindered her "memoir's" sales, the former New Jersey governor released a statement blaming it all on her horrendous Oprah appearance.

Harnessing all of his bitchy gay powers, McGreevey penned a six page statement tearing down his former flame's accusations:

Instead of blaming the failure of her book on her awful appearance on Oprah Show…appearing in an inappropriate and ill-fitting ballgown with a plunging neckline or blaming the fact that her book is poorly written or dull…or blaming…the unbelievable assertion that she did not know her husband was gay, or blaming the assertion that the plaintiff was a 'bisexual' when he clearly announced he was a 'Gay American,' she blames the plaintiff.

McGreevey goes on to criticize Dina's media pandering:

This defendant, more than most, has had the opportunity to have her position published and she has. She has taken full advantage of television, radio and print to tell her story. The public is not stupid. They hear both sides and make up their minds."

Pot, meet black.