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8/29 Dorians TV Toast 2021

SUNDAY AUGUST 29

8pm ET, 5pm PT

Here TV and YouTube’s PlanetOut

In this hybrid of award and magazine shows, Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Beals, Olivia Newton-John, Tituss Burgess, Fran Drescher, Big Freedia, Nick Kroll, Punkie Johnson of Saturday Night LiveMichael Cimino (Love, Victor), Hannah Einbinder (Hacks), Leyna Bloom (Pose), Jesse James Keitel (Big Sky), Josie TotahJeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.), Gottmik (a.k.a. Kade Gottlieb)sitcom icon Jim J. Bullock and more help the GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics celebrate the past TV season’s best performances and shows, mainstream to queer+. Jean Smart, Bowen Yang, Showtime’s Ziwe and the Marvel hit WandaVision are among those vying for the group’s 12th annual Dorian honors.

Highlights: Pose star Mj Rodriguez discusses her life as a Hollywood trailblazer, actor-comic John Lehr (Hulu’s Quick Draw) impersonates MSNBC personality Steve Kornacki, and The Voice season five contestant Morgan Mallory sings an original pop song about the power of television. Famed LA broadcasting veteran and LGBTQ rights activist Karel is the recorded special’s lively host.

The Dorians TV Toast 2021 is produced by Karel Media and Brandon Riley Miller Productions with GALECA, with Karel and John Griffiths serving as Executive Producers. Karel, a groundbreaking personality in mainstream radio and TV, has hosted programs on ABC, CBS Radio and Free Speech TV across his 25-year career.

The Society’s past film and TV toasts have included appearances by Hugh Jackman, Regina King, Janelle Monáe, Billy Porter, Chloé Zhao, Carey Mulligan, Antonio Banderas, Margaret Cho, Laverne Cox, Dan Levy, Rachel McAdams, John Oliver, George C. Wolfe, Amy Landecker, Bradley Whitford, Leslie Jordan, RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Chad Michaels, Fiona Shaw, Alex Newell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Gavin Newsom, Damon Lindelof, Lee Daniels, Cheyenne Jackson and more.

ABOUT GALECA
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics sponsors the Dorian Awards, honoring the best in film and TV, mainstream to queer+. We’re here to remind bullies, bigots and our own at-risk youth that the world loves the Q eye on great and unique entertainment. A nonprofit professional organization, GALECA consists of over 300 critics and journalists who write for a variety of influential media outlets in the United States, Canada, Australia and the U.K. Follow us @DorianAwards on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Find more information at GALECA.org, and contact us at info@galeca.org.

ABOUT HERE
Here TV launched in 2004 as the world’s first SVOD LGBTQ+ video service, and is now available on platforms and cable outlets including Xfinity, Spectrum, Cablevision, FiOS, U-Verse, Cox as well as Here.TV, where it can be viewed via all iOS and Android mobile devices. Here TV offers a wide variety of queer+ films, series and other programming, including Emmy®-winning and -nominated originals.

ABOUT PLANET OUT
PlanetOut is an ad-supported LGBTQ+ video channel that focuses on lifestyle, entertainment, travel, cooking, and of course, equality and Pride. PlanetOut reaches millions of diverse, cultured, and engaged viewers every month with its GLAAD award-winning library of movies, series, shorts and specials. PlanetOut, launched in 1995 and owned by Here Media, offers audiences high-quality content that tells queer stories authentically.

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Valerie Milano is the well-connected Senior Editor and TV Critic at The Hollywood Times, a showbiz/promotions aggregate mainly for insiders. She has written for Communications Daily in DC, Discover Hollywood, Hollywood Today, Television International, and Video Age International in NYC. Valerie works closely with GLSEN, GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign (Fed Club Council Member), LAMBDA Legal, NCLR, and Outfest. She is also a member of the LA Press Club. She is a lay minister and parishioner of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Hollywood. Milano loves meeting people and does so in her getaway home in Palm Springs as a member of the Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs Center and DAP Health (Partners for Life member). For years Valerie Milano had volunteered as a board member and one of the chief organizers for the Television Critics Association’s press tours. The tours take place twice a year in Beverly Hills/Pasadena.