Out Music Nominations

Out Music supports and praises members of the LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bi-sexual/Transgender) community for their talents an not their sexual orientations and the Out Music Awards honour those musicians. Musicians such as Melissa Etheridge, Sir Elton JohnElton John, George Michael, K.D. Lang, Michael StipeMichael Stipe, and Lance Bass, TV personalities Ellen DeGeneresEllen DeGeneres, Rosie O’Donnell, Wanda SykesWanda Sykes, and Neil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick Harris came out after they had become successful; but artists who came out before that success have had to struggle with the somewhat homophobic entertainment industry, striving to prove that they too belong among the best in music.

The nominees for the 2009 Out Music Awards have been released. And the nominees for the microphone trophy are:

Outstanding Rock Song:
”Leather Daddy” by the Stewed Tomatoes
”Love is Love” by Athena Reich
”Let’s Ride” by Jen Urban & the Box
”Got Love?” by Josh Zuckerman
”I’m No Prize” by Phil Putnam

Outstanding Pop Song:
”Love is Love” by Athena Reich
”I Hope You’re Happy Now” by Billie Myers
”Ready, Steady, GO” by Ellen Rosner
”Sick of Nothing” by Heiskell
From the soundtrack of “Fame” “Too Many Women” by Rachael Sage

Outstanding Hip-Hop/Rap Song:
”Feel Like Fashion” by baron.
”ROCKET” by Jasper James
”Make it Bounce” by Mack Misstress
”Grossed Out” by Soce, The Elemental Wizzard
”I’m the Same” by Tori Fixx

Outstanding R&B/Soul Song:
”A******” by Kalup Linzy presents
”Love” by Nhojj
”Bigger Than Me” by Robert Anton

Outstanding Electro/Dance Song:
”Where the Music Takes You” by Ari Gold
”Breathe Life” by Brian Kent
”Running Back to You” by Christian Andreason
”Can’t Stop” by Jason Walker
”Meet Me at the Partay” by Lori Michaaels

Outstanding Folk/Country Song:
From the “Hannah Free” soundtrack ”Break Away” by Blair Hansen and Vicci martinez
”Fall Away” by Crooked Willow
”Growin’ Up” by Julie Clark
”Who I Am” by Nick Granato
”Hunger in John” by Rachael Sage

Outstanding Jazz Song:
”No Scrubs” by Avi Wisnia
From the Hannah Free soundtrack “You Pause” by Lucy Smith
”Site-Seeing” by Rachael Sage
”Skins & Shirts” by Steven Franz

Outstanding Instrumental/Soundtrack Song:
From the Hannah Free soundtrack “Goody Rachel”
From the Hannah Free soundtrack “On the Lake”
From the Hannah Free soundtrack “Meadow Waltz”
“Lullaby Valkyrie by Jon Gilbert Leavitt
Love theme from “Heels” by Jon Gilbert Leavitt

Outstanding Choral Song:
”Make Your Own Kind of Music”/”New World Coming” by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
”We Looked to the Future” by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
Highlights from “U.S.S. Metaphor” by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
”Up the Ladder to the Roof” by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble: The Lollipop Guild
”Swingin’ with the Saints” by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and Joan BaezJoan Baez

Outstanding Contemporary Spiritual Song:
”I Belong to You” by Christian Andreason
”Stand Together” by Deepa Soul
”Stained Glass Window” by Levi Kreis
”Kumbaya” by Sir Ivan

Outstanding Theatre/Cabaret/Comedy Song:
From the musical “Bridge Club” “Pepe! The Mail Order Monkey” by Brian Wilbur
”What’s Happened Since” by D.C. Anderson
”My Gallant Crew” by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
”The Man I Love” by Terese Genecco
”A Shangri-las Girl” by Vontanner

Outstanding International Song:
”Suantrai (Seothin Seotho) by Caera
Miracle Medley “Hasidic Nign/Poor Man’s Tune” by the Isle of Klezbos/Metropolitan Klezmer
”Last of the Secret Agents” by Lee Adam Wilshier
”Shorashim” by SONiA of disappear fear
”Mama I Love Her” by Sugarbeach

Outstanding Producer:
Guy B. for “CoExist”
Jon Gilbert Leavitt for Pride 2009
Rachael Sage for “Veritgo”
Scott Free for “Equal”
Soce, the elemental Wizard for “Slippin Away”

Outstanding Songwriter:
Athena Reich for “Love is Love”
Dudley Saunders for “Love Song for Jeffrey Dahmer”
Jeffrey Altergott for “Balloons”
Julie Clark for “Jacket”
Rachael Sage for “Chandelier”

Outstanding Single of the Year:
”Love is Love” by Athena Reich
”Whatcha Doin’ to Me” by Brian Kent
“ROCKET” by Jasper James
”courage of Our Convictions”
”Photophobia” by Kristi Martel

Out Musician of the Year:
Ari Gold for “Transport Me”
Good Asian Drivers for “Queer Nation”
Linq for “Change the Picture”
The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus for “Gabi’s Song – Will it Always be Like This?”
Scott Free for “Free”

Outstanding Video:
”Leather Daddy” by Stewed Tomatoes
”Cotton Candy” by Amanda Lepore
”ROCKET” BY Jasper James
”Hypnotized” by Jeffery Straker
”The End of the World” by Matt Alber

Outstanding Album of the Year:
”Little Girl Dreams” by Athena Reich
”Breathe Life” by Brian Kent
”The Emergency Lane” by Dudley Saunders
”Change Your Mind” by Julie Clark
”Ugly, Broke and Sober” by Telling on Trizie/Derek Nicoletto