THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

From the 7th Annual Shorty Impact Awards Best in LGBTQ+

This award honors a program, project, or initiative fighting discrimination of persons based on their sexual orientation or gender identity and advocating for equal rights and acceptance.

See previous winners and honorees here. The Shorty Impact Awards were formerly known as Shorty Social Good Awards.

Finalists

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gold honor
Lt. Governor's Fund For the Fabulous
Last year, North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (he/him) went on an all-out assault o…
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silver honor
Nuclear Family: Storybook Families
Nuclear Family is a three-part documentary series following filmmaker Ry Russo-Young as she turns t…
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bronze honor
VH1's RuPaul’s Drag Race LGBTQ Herstory Month
In recognition of LGBT History Month (October), the RuPaul’s Drag Race team gathered and photograph…
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Enterprise Bingo
Paramount+’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds serves as a spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery. The series…
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Harry's Pride 2022 Initiative
Since launching in 2013, Harry’s has set aside 1% of all sales to its diverse group of non-profit p…
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Horizon Worlds "Be You"
Since launch, Horizon Worlds has become so many different things for visitors and creators from acr…
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Human By Orientation Pride 2022
Our mission was to amplify local Pride celebrations, while driving HBO Max brand affinity and aware…
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LGBTQ Nation's "Authentic Voices of Pride," presented by Chevrolet
General Motors’ vision is to be “the most inclusive company in the world”.  GM’s brand Chevrolet so…
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LGBTQ+: Proud Partners of Progress
Our team partnered with Nissan to help advance their commitment to supporting and celebrating the L…
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Lil Nas X Promotes Safe Sex with Durex
Sex is healthy. Sex is also real, fun, and honest. But how is sex also in a health crisis, especial…
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Livin' My Truth McDonald's Pride Activations
We supported McDonald’s franchises in four markets, representing over 800 restaurants. This year, D…
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Logo's Trans Youth Town Hall
In response to the rise in anti-trans legislation across the United States, Logo set out to amplify…
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LoveTravels with Love Letters
LoveTravels represents Marriott’s love letter to the world. It’s our commitment to making the world…
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Nespresso x Ali Forney Center
Nespresso came to Accompany Creative to develop an integrated social impact platform with the goal …
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OPI X Biqtch Puddin’
In support of The Trevor Project, OPI collaborated with Biqtch Puddin’ and Jellysmack to drive awar…
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OUTLOUD Raising Voices
JJLA’s OUTLOUD brand is a music event series which creates safe physical and digital spaces for que…
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Orbitz “Travel As You Are”
The cause we set out to support was LGBTQIA+ inclusion in travel. As a travel brand with a 20-year …
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Pride Eve Social Telethon
The Pride Eve social telethon/simulcast brought together all sides of the LGBTQ+ community to not o…
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SORT OF Season 1 - The Future Is Theirs
To celebrate the series premiere of HBO Max’s Sort Of, we aimed to develop a campaign that would no…
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Trans Scripts
The rich dimensional lives of trans people were the subject of this integrated effort created by OB…
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audience honor
Uber ‘Right to Pride’ National Coming Out Day 2021
Uber exists to make real life easier to navigate, believe in everyone’s right to move, and live fre…
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VH1's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 14 Pink Carpet
Everyone from Season 13 winner Symone to the Queens of Drag Race Live sashayed down the pink carpet…
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Writing Our Own Dictionary
Writing Our Own Dictionary is a 4-part compelling, entertaining and informative web series where we…

Nominees