GLAAD Media Award Nominations Go to Anderson Cooper, Lady Gaga, Chaz Bono and More

It must make GLAAD very glad to see the works of Chaz Bono, Anderson Cooper and Lady Gaga.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has nominated these fine folks, along with other artists, movies and television series, for the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which recognize and honor media for outstanding images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Who else made the cut?

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When it comes to the big screen, Beginners, a story about a father coming out to his son after the death of his wife, starring newly minted Golden Globe winner Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor, made the list. And alongside of it is the biopic J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer.

Of course, some of television's favorites (including some returning nominees) also got a special honor from GLAAD: Shameless, The Big C, Glee, Modern Family, NCIS, the AIDS documentary We Were Here, Dancing With the Stars, the wedding of a gay staffer on Conan and TheRoot.com's "Black and Transgender: A Double Burden," got recognized as well.

Ricky Martin scored a nom for his Spanish album, Música + Alma + Sexo.

MORE: View the full nominations list

"As media continue to tell new stories about LGBT people and families, a majority of Americans now support full equality of LGBT Americans," said Mike Thompson, GLAAD's acting president. "This year's nominees enlighten and entertain, while spotlighting the diversity of our community. 

Audiences expect to see their own worlds reflected in media, and today more than ever, those include the lives of LGBT people. 

Viewers know that LGBT characters and stories are simply natural extensions of, and glimpses into, their own experiences from across America."

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Watch Lady Gaga's Music Video Premiere of "Marry the Night"

It's here! 

What with one über-success after another, Lady Gaga has never even come close to going away—and if her adoring fans have anything to say about it, never will. But that won't stop us from declaring, ladies and gentlemonsters, that Mother Monster is back. Big time.

E! News has exclusively obtained the premiere of Lady Gaga's 13-minute self-directorial music video opus, "Marry the Night," and, suffice it to say, with equal parts autobiography and pure spectacle, it truly has something for everyone.

Especially those who like their nurses with great asses and in next season's Calvin Klein, their pop stars naked (physically and emotionally), their dance numbers hot and their cars highly flammable.

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Serving as Gaga's official self-directorial effort, the video—as its mammoth, fan-appeasing length would suggest—is certainly not hurting for a lack of creativity.

In fact, throughout the video, Gaga seems to pay homage to her own tough journey to the top through some familiar motifs.

Making good on the Girl, Interrupted-type theme revealed in a sneak peek earlier this month, "Marry the Night" opens with a lengthy (and surprisingly laugh-inducing) sequence in which Gaga is rolled via gurney through a mental ward, gets medicated, and declares that she would "do it all again."

Walking the line between sinister and comical, Gaga told E! News in an exclusive interview that the scene, in essence, is "insight into my entire creative process and the way that I view things."

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At other times, Gaga relives her journey in a slightly more straightforward, less metaphorical way, both getting her Fame and Black Swan on, as she alternately dons a tutu and shows of some ballet moves, while also fashioning some rad leg warmers and a tube top while hitting up an '80s-style dance class.

And then there's the nekkidness. The hissy-fit throwing, destruction-wreaking, soul-baring nekkidness, a scene that Gaga called "the most honest moment" in the whole video.

So how could this opus possibly end? Not on the edge of glory, that's for sure. More like in a blaze of it.

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