首届中国彩虹媒体奖9日在京发布评奖结果
由爱白、北京纪安德咨询中心发起，多家机构联合主办的首届中国彩虹媒体奖12月9日在京发布，南方周末、凤凰卫视等获同志致敬媒体奖，李银河获特别贡献奖。知名学者、多位资深媒体人士出席了颁奖盛典。主办方介绍，中国彩虹媒体奖自2011年起，每年将举办一次。
期待改善性少数人群的舆论环境
“媒体是公众了解社会的窗口，多年来，同性恋人群出现在中国大众媒体上的形象常常是负面或扭曲的，大众媒体呈现的不客观报道会误导公众、加深社会对同性恋人群的偏见和歧视，进而影响到数千万中国同性恋者的生存环境。” 首届中国彩虹媒体奖执行主席杨洋说，“我们希望借该奖项评选的契机，建立起日常性的同志社区-大众媒体沟通平台，改善性少数人群的舆论环境。”
据主办方介绍，这是大陆地区首个综合性少数群体（包括男女同性恋/ 双性恋/ 跨性别）媒体奖，中国彩虹媒体奖旨在表彰中国大陆地区客观呈现、科学表达、包容对待性少数群体议题的各类报道、文化艺术作品，以及帮助推进、促成以上目标达成的机构与个人，实现大众传媒与性少数群体的对话和沟通，进而推进社会公众认识、理解和接纳性少数人群，倡导社会的包容、平等与和谐。
多位名人前往捧场
首届中国媒体彩虹奖共设作品奖、机构奖、人物奖三大类，作品奖终审结果由专业的评委评出，而同志致敬机构和致敬人物奖则由主办机构共同评出。经过多轮评选，最终《法治周末》记者杜晓采写的《我国首份女同性恋“家暴”调查报告出炉 问题不容忽视》、《南都周刊》记者洪鹄等采写的《爱人同志》封面系列报道、《凤凰卫视》制作的专题节目《与梦想同行》、网易女人频道制作的专题《女人来提案》，最终分获本次彩虹媒体奖最佳新闻报道报纸类、杂志类、电视类、网络类奖项。而《南方周末》、China Daily等获评同志致敬报纸。而多次就同性恋议题发表言论、多次为同志婚姻合法化提案的李银河教授获得主办方评出的特别贡献奖。
知名社会学家，首届中国彩虹媒体奖作品类终审评委之一李银河认为：“媒体是大众了解同性恋议题的重要平台，大众媒体的客观报道，对改善性少数人群的生存环境起着非常重要的作用。中国彩虹媒体奖的出现，除了鼓励大众传媒的积极报道，也能对媒体的不客观报道形成监督作用。”
除了多家主流媒体前来捧场报道以外，李银河、洪晃、程青松等人虽无法到场，但都录制了视频表达对首届彩虹媒体奖的祝福。
不一样的颁奖嘉宾
主办方特意安排了一位老年同性恋者“老巴黎”给“同志特别贡献奖”获得者李银河颁奖，72岁的老巴黎曾因同性恋倾向三次入狱，每次罪名都是流氓罪。如今的老巴黎与男友一起平静的生活。老巴黎坦然地告诉记者，“不管我入狱几次，我从来不觉得我有错。我没偷没抢，我没什么可认错的。” 老巴黎说要向李银河教授表达他最真诚的谢意，“我活了70多岁，现在是我最幸福最快乐的一段时光，这与李银河等人多年的工作密不可分。”
另一名颁奖嘉宾是61岁的退休工人藕姨，几年前她无论如何也想不到自己会与同性恋扯上关系。退休后藕姨学会了上网，并通过博客认识了一些同性恋者，她发现这个世界“并非都是男人爱女人，非黑即白，”她通过网络接受同性恋者的倾诉，并于今年结集出版《我的那些同志孩儿》一书，目前担任同性恋亲友会北京召集人。“老有人问我，你家里又没有同志，你为什么要参与？我觉得要改善大众对同性恋人群的偏见，需要更多的人站出来支持，无论是异性恋还是同性恋，我们都是普普通通的、平等的人嘛。”
据悉，本月下旬，首届彩虹媒体奖还将在上海颁发部分奖项。
附录：
中国彩虹媒体奖的宗旨
众所周知，媒体是公众了解社会的窗口，据观察，多年来，同性恋人群出现在中国大众媒体上的形象常常是负面或扭曲的，大众媒体呈现的不客观报道会误导公众、加深社会对同性恋人群的偏见和歧视，进而影响到数千万中国同性恋者的生存环境。
有鉴于此，中国内地多家同性恋机构联合发起中国媒体彩虹奖评选活动。该活动坚持独立、公正立场，表彰客观、公正报道同性恋议题的媒体和个人，每年评选一次。活动旨在鼓励中国内地的新闻从业者客观、积极、深入地报道同性恋议题，呈现立体的同性恋社区，在大变革的时代背景下，致力于改善数千万同性恋人群的生存环境，以倡导社会多元，促进社会和谐。
中国彩虹媒体奖网站： http://www.chinarainbowawards.org/
新闻发言人联系方式： 北京：魏建刚 13811137034
上海：赵思奇 13917653763
首届彩虹媒体奖作品奖终审评委名单
李银河、方刚、吕频、崔子恩、Dinah Gardner、Steven Jiang
首届彩虹媒体奖获奖名单
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最佳新闻报道作品 |
报纸 |
法治周末 |
我国首份女同性恋“家暴”调查报告出炉 问题不容忽视 |
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杂志 |
南都周刊 |
《爱人同志》封面系列报道 | |
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电视广播 |
凤凰卫视 | 与梦想同行：同志亦凡人 | |
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网络专题 |
网易 | 《女人来提案》专题 | |
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英文报道 |
Xinhua News | The loveless marriages of China’s gay men | |
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新闻报道提名奖 |
报纸 |
成都晚报 | 成立七年了名字还像个暗号 同性恋社团期待正常注册 |
| 广州日报 | 孩子喜欢同性 父母如何应对？ | ||
| 重庆日报 | 《何处听晚钟：中国首个“同志庄园”流产》等系列报道 | ||
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杂志 |
体育画报 | 《同志，冲啊》封面系列报道 | |
| 瞭望东方周刊 | 一个同性恋社团的生存记录 | ||
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电视广播 |
凤凰卫视 | 社会能见度——“同志”的婚礼 | |
| 中央电视台 | 请尊重每一个群体的自我选择 | ||
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网络 |
腾讯女性频道 | 5.17国际不再恐同日：尊重同性恋 从现在开始 | |
| 网易新闻频道 | 另一面：吕丽萍反同错在哪？ | ||
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同志致敬传媒奖 |
报纸 |
China Daily、环球时报、南方周末 |
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杂志 |
南都周刊、心理月刊、Time Out |
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电视广播 |
凤凰卫视 |
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新媒体 |
新浪微博、网易 |
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传媒人 |
Dinah Gardner |
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特别贡献奖 |
李银河 |
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Beijing, 9 December – First Edition of the China Rainbow Media Awards Announces Results
Initiated by the Aibai Culture & Education Center and the Beijing Gender Health Education Institute, and organized by a consortium of social organizations, the first annual China Rainbow Media Awards announced the winners on 9 December in Beijing. They include Southern Weekend & Phoenix TV (LGBT Salute Award) and Li Yinhe (Special Contribution Award). A host of well-known scholars and media figures attended the Award Ceremony.
Improving Public Opinion Regarding Sexual Minority Communities
“The media are the windows through which people look at society. For many years, Chinese mass media presented negative or distorted views of the gay community. The misleading reporting strengthened social prejudices and discrimination towards gay people and affected the living circumstances of millions of Chinese homosexuals.” says Yang Yang, Executive Chairwoman for this year’s China Rainbow Media Awards.
She continues: “We want to use the momentum generated by these Awards to build strong LGBT communities and to build a genuine platform of communication with the mass media. We hope to improve public opinion regarding sexual minority communities.”
The organizers pointed out that the China Rainbow Media Awards are the first Mainland Chinese Media Awards organized by and focused on sexual minority communities (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and others). The China Rainbow Media Awards recognize and honor news reports and cultural products for their objective, scientific and tolerant treatment of LGBT topics, and support and facilitate organizations and individuals who create such work. The China Rainbow Media Awards aim to bring about communication and dialogue between the mass media and sexual minority communities, to raise social awareness, understanding and acceptance regarding sexual minority communities, and to promote the social values of tolerance, equality and harmony.
Celebrity Support
The China Rainbow Media Awards honor works, institutions and individuals. While this year’s institution and individual winners were selected by the organizers themselves based on their contributions to the LGBT community, the award winning works were selected by an expert jury.
After several rounds of selection, the following works were honored:
Southern Weekend and the China Daily, among others, won LGBT Salute Awards in the Newspaper Category, while Time Out and Southern Metropolis Weekly, among others, won LGBT Salute Awards in the Magazine Category. Dinah Gardner won an LGBT Salute Award for her columns in Time Out. And Dr. Li Yinhe, a well-known sociologist who spoke out many times on homosexuality and who submitted several proposals to legalize same-sex marriage, was awarded with the Special Contribution Award by the China Rainbow Media Awards organizers.
Li Yinhe, who also took part in this year’s China Rainbow Media Awards as a member of the award selection jury, could not be present at the Awards Ceremony but recorded a video expressing her support. She said: “The media form an important platform for people to learn more about homosexuality. Objective reporting by mass media plays a huge role in improving the living circumstances of sexual minorities. The China Rainbow Media Awards encourage mass media to actively report on LGBT issues. They also provide a measure of control against non-objective reporting by the media.”
Other celebrities, including Hong Huang and Cheng Qingsong, also recorded support videos that were shown at the Awards Ceremony to an audience that included a large number of Chinese mainstream media representatives.
The Award Presenters
The organizers invited an elderly gay man nicknamed Old Paris to present the Special Contribution Award to Li Yinhe. Old Paris, who’s 72 years old, was jailed 3 times because of his homosexual orientation. He was convicted each time under the ‘hooliganism’ provision. Today he lives a quiet life together with his boyfriend. He says: “Although I went to prison several times, I never felt that I was wrong. I never stole anything, I never robbed anyone, and I never did anything that was wrong.” Expressing his sincere gratitude towards Li Yinhe, he says: “I’ve lived for more than 70 years and at this moment I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. That’s all because of the tireless work Li Yinhe and others have been doing for all these years.”
Auntie Ou was also invited to present an Award. She is a 61 year old retired worker who never thought she would be closely involved with LGBT people up until a few years ago. After retiring, Auntie Ou learned how to surf the internet and got to know some gay people on a blog site. She discovered that “this world isn’t painted in black and white, and it doesn’t only contain men who love women”. She provided a listening ear to many gay people, and collected her experiences in a book titled Those Gay Children of Mine which was published earlier this year. She is currently a member of the Beijing chapter of PFLAG China (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays China). She says: “People always ask me why I support this cause even though there are no gay people in my own family. I feel that in order to improve the public opinion regarding homosexuals, more people have to step up, both hetero- and homosexuals. We’re all equals.”
At the Awards Ceremony, the organizers mentioned that this year’s China Rainbow Media Awards will hold another event in Shanghai at the end of this year, where more awards will be handed out.
Background Info:
China Rainbow Media Awards
The media are the windows through which people look at society. For many years, Chinese mass media presented negative or distorted views of the gay community. The misleading reporting strengthened social prejudices and discrimination towards gay people and affected the living circumstances of millions of Chinese homosexuals.
For this reason, several Mainland Chinese LGBT organizations jointly organized the China Rainbow Media Awards. This annual event independently and impartially honors media institutions and individuals who provide objective and fair reports on LGBT topics. The event encourages mainland Chinese media to provide objective, positive and thorough reporting on LGBT topics. The organizers hope to build up strong LGBT communities and improve the living conditions of millions of LGBT people and to promote a diverse and harmonious society.
China Rainbow Media Awards Website: http://www.chinarainbowawards.org
Media Contact Beijing: Wei Jiangang 13811137034
Shanghai: Zhao Siqi 13917653763
China Rainbow Media Awards Jury
Li Yinhe, Fang Gang, Lv Pin, Cui Zi’en, Dinah Gardner, Steven Jiang
First Edition of the China Rainbow Media Awards – Award Recipients
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Best News Report |
Newspaper |
法治周末 |
我国首份女同性恋“家暴”调查报告出炉 问题不容忽视 | |
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Magazine |
南都周刊 |
《爱人同志》封面系列报道 | ||
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Television |
凤凰卫视 | 与梦想同行：同志亦凡人 | ||
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Internet |
网易 | 《女人来提案》专题 | ||
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English |
Xinhua News | The loveless marriages of China’s gay men | ||
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Best News Report Nominees |
Newspaper |
成都晚报 | 成立七年了名字还像个暗号 同性恋社团期待正常注册 | |
| 广州日报 | 孩子喜欢同性 父母如何应对？ | |||
| 重庆日报 | 《何处听晚钟：中国首个“同志庄园”流产》等系列报道 | |||
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Magazine |
体育画报 | 封面报道：同志爱运动 | ||
| 瞭望东方周刊 | 一个同性恋社团的生存记录 | |||
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Television |
凤凰卫视 | 社会能见度——“同志”的婚礼 | ||
| 中央电视台 | 请尊重每一个群体的自我选择 | |||
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Internet |
腾讯女性频道 | 5.17国际不再恐同日：尊重同性恋 从现在开始 | ||
| 网易新闻频道 | 另一面：吕丽萍反同错在哪？ | |||
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LGBT Salute Award |
Newspaper |
China Daily、环球时报、南方周末 |
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Magazine |
南都周刊、心理月刊、Time Out |
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Television |
凤凰卫视 |
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New Media |
新浪微博、网易 |
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Column |
Dinah Gardner |
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Contribution Award
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李银河 (Li Yinhe) | |||
