The Stonewall Awards 2008

The Stonewall Awards take place this Thursday at the V&A, London.

Here’s the shortlists:

Broadcast/er of the Year

1. Fi Glover (Saturday Live – Radio 4)
2. Skins (C4)
3. The Sunday Night Project (C4)
4. Sandi Toksvig (The News Quiz and Excess Baggage)
5. Wife Swap (C4)

Entertainer of the Year

1. Simon Amstell (Never Mind the Buzzcocks)
2. Amy Lamé (TV and radio personality)
3. Sue Perkins (Maestro, The Supersizers Go…)
4. Mary Portas (Queen of Shops)
5. Sam Sparro (pop singer)

Journalist of the Year

1. Julie Bindel (The Guardian)
2. Joshua Hunt (thelondonpaper)
3. Suzanne Moore (Mail on Sunday)
4. Karl Riley (Boyz)
5. Miriam Stoppard (The Daily Mirror)

Politician of the Year

1. Lord Alli
2. Lord Carlile
3. Maria Eagle MP
4. Patrick Harvie MSP
5. Emily Thornberry MP

Publication of the Year

1. attitude
2. The Herald
3. The Independent
4. Out In The City
5. Time Out

Stonewall Sports Award

1. Clare Balding
2. BLAGSS – Brighton Lesbian and Gay Sports Society
3. Ben Cohen
4. Matthew Mitcham
5. Stonewall Lions FC

Writer of the Year

1. Jonathan Coe (The Rain Before it Falls)
2. Stella Duffy (The Room of Lost Things)
3. Philip Hensher (The Northern Clemency)
4. Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Her Naked Skin)
5. Adam Mars-Jones (Pilcrow)

Click on the next page for Hero and Bigot of the Year nominations…