The staff at AfterElton.com spend a lot of time watching television. We also spend a lot of time watching awards shows – they don’t call the Oscars the Gay Superbowl for nothing. Oddly, we realized that these two passions rarely intersect. Why do the two meet so infrequently? Because out gay actors and gay characters rarely get nominated for those fancy statues. Sure, they let us hand them out. Ellen got to host the Emmy ceremony, and this year Neil Patrick Harris takes his turn at the podium, but really, that just makes us the party planners, doesn’t it? Hosts with the most? We're going to change that this year.

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