The 28th GLAAD Media Awards was the 2017 annual presentation of the GLAAD Media Awards, presented by GLAAD honoring the 2016 season. The awards honor films, television shows, musicians and works of journalism that fairly and accurately represent the LGBT community and issues relevant to the community. GLAAD announced 115 nominees in 21 English-language categories and 41 Spanish-language nominees in 11 categories on January 31, 2017. The awards were presented at ceremonies in Los Angeles on April 1, 2017 and New York on May 6, 2017.

Winners and nominees Winners are presented in bold.

English-language categories Award Nominees Outstanding Film - Wide ReleaseMoonlight Star Trek Beyond Outstanding Film - Limited ReleaseOther People The Handmaiden Naz & Maalik Spa Night Those People Outstanding Comedy SeriesTransparent Brooklyn Nine-Nine Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Grace and Frankie Modern Family One Mississippi The Real O'Neals Steven Universe Survivor's Remorse Take My Wife Outstanding Drama SeriesShadowhunters The Fosters Grey's Anatomy Hap and Leonard How to Get Away with Murder The OA Orphan Black Shameless Supergirl Wynonna EarpOutstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBT character)"San Junipero", Black Mirror "Attention Deficit", The Loud House "Bar Fights", Drunk History "Johnson & Johnson", Black-ish "Vegan Cinderella", EasyOutstanding TV Movie or Limited SeriesEyewitness London Spy Looking: The Movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again Vicious: The FinaleOutstanding DocumentarySouthwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Out of Iraq The Same Difference The Trans ListOutstanding Reality ProgramStrut Gaycation I Am Cait I Am Jazz The Prancing Elites ProjectOutstanding Music ArtistTegan and Sara, Love You to Death Against Me!, Shape Shift with Me Blood Orange, Freetown Sound Brandy Clark, Big Day in a Small Town Tyler Glenn, Excommunication Ty Herndon, House on Fire Elton John, Wonderful Crazy Night Lady Gaga, Joanne Frank Ocean, Blonde Sia, This Is ActingOutstanding Comic BookThe Woods, written by James Tynion IVAll-New X-Men, written by Dennis Hopeless Black Panther, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates DC Comics Bombshells, written by Marguerite Bennett Kim & Kim, written by Magdalene Visaggio Love is Love, anthology originated by Marc Andreyko Lumberjanes, written by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh Midnighter / Midnighter and Apollo, written by Steve Orlando Patsy Walker, A.K.A Hellcat!, written by Kate Leth Saga, written by Brian K. Vaughan |- ! scope="row" |Outstanding Daily Drama |The Bold and The BeautifulOutstanding Talk Show Episode"Angelica Ross", The Daily Show with Trevor Noah "Cookie Johnson", Super Soul Sunday "North Carolina and Georgia Anti-LGBTQ Laws", Late Night with Seth Meyers "Tony Marrero, Orlando Shooting Survivor", The Ellen DeGeneres Show "Trey Pearson", The ViewOutstanding Journalism Newsmagazine"Bingham", SC Featured "Church and States", VICE News Tonight "Gavin Grimm's Fight", VICE News Tonight "Life as Matt", E:60 "Switching Teams", 60 MinutesOutstanding Journalism Segment"Gay Community in U.S. 'Forged in Fire", The Rachel Maddow Show "Interview with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi", Anderson Cooper 360 "Many in LGBT Community Fear Changes under Trump", NBC Nightly News "Terror in Orlando", PBS NewsHour "Troop Turnaround: U.S. Military Transgender Ban Ended by Pentagon", CBS This MorningOutstanding Newspaper Article"Permission to Hate" by Elizabeth Leland, The Charlotte Observer "An LGBT Hunger Crisis" by Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times "Mid-South Couples Celebrate First Year of Marriage Equality, But Challenges Remain for LGBT Community" by Katie Fretland & Ron Maxey, The Commercial Appeal "Nowhere to Go: LGBT Youth on the Move" by Arielle Dreher, Jackson Free Press "Worthy of Survival" by Kathleen McGrory, Tampa Bay TimesOutstanding Magazine Article"HIV Mystery: Solved?" by Tim Murphy, The Nation "Battle of the Bathroom" by Michael Scherer, Time "The Official Coming-Out Party" by Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN The Magazine "On the Run" by Jacob Kushner, Vice Magazine "Rethinking Gender" by Robin Marantz Henig, National GeographicOutstanding Magazine Overall CoverageTeen Vogue The Advocate Cosmopolitan Seventeen TimeOutstanding Digital Journalism Article"After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos" by Daniel Wenger "105 Trans Women On American TV: A History and Analysis" by Riese Bernard "The Methodist Church May Split Over LGBT Issues. Meet the Lesbian Bishop Caught in the Middle" by Becca Andrews "These are the Queer Refugees Australia has Locked Up on a Remote Pacific Island" by J. Lester Feder "The Uncertain Olympic Future for Trans and Intersex Athletes" by Diana TourjeeOutstanding Digital Journalism - Multimedia"Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives" by Meredith Talusan "Last Men Standing: AIDS Survivors Still Fighting for Their Lives" by Erin Allday "New Deep South: Kayla" "No Access: Young, Black & Positive" "Willing and Able: Employment as a Transgender New Yorker" by Jordi Oliveres & Santiago García MuñozOutstanding BlogHoly Bullies and Headless Monsters I'm Still Josh Mombian My Fabulous Disease TransGriotSpecial RecognitionHer Story We've Been Around

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