With the United States government repeatedly failing to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people — and more specifically, transgender people — everywhere, a star-studded group of performers is coming together to celebrate queer excellence in defiance of the systems of oppression surrounding them.
On Thursday (March 13), LGBTQ+ non-profit organization GLAAD announced the list of attendees, including presenters and performers, for the 2025 GLAAD Media Awards. The event — which is set to take place on Thursday, March 27, in Los Angeles — will feature guests including Doechii, Durand Bernarr, Maren Morris, Keke Palmer, Hannah Einbinder, Joe Locke and cast members from RuPaul’s Drag Race, among others.
Along with attending the annual awards show, Bernarr is also set to serve as the musical guest at the official afterparty for the awards ceremony. The R&B star, who recently released his latest studio album Bloom, is also nominated at the ceremony for outstanding breakthrough music artist.
Doechii — who has been named Billboard‘s Woman of the Year for 2025 — is also a nominee at the annual ceremony in the category of outstanding music artist for her work on Alligator Bites Never Heal, her Grammy award-winning mixtape released last year. In accepting the Grammy for best rap album in February, the “Anxiety” rapper sent a message to Black girls watching at home: “I want to tell you that you can do it. Anything is possible,” she said. Don’t allow anybody to project any stereotypes onto you … you are exactly who you need to be to where you are, and I am a testimony [to that].”
Elsewhere at the GLAAD Awards, Wicked star Cynthia Erivo is set to receive the organization’s Stephen F. Kolzak award, which honors a queer celebrity each year who “made a significant difference in raising visibility” for the LGBTQ+ community through their work. In a statement shared with the news of Erivo’s award, GLAAD CEO and president Sarah Kate Ellis commended the actress for how she “continues to show up for Black, queer and other marginalized peoples amid her well-deserved success.”