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Emmy nominations include nods for Transparent, OITNB, Modern Family, Lily Tomlin and Jane Lynch
Four-time winner Jim Parsons was snubbed as were Modern Family’s Cam and Mitch.
But there is still plenty of LGBTI representation in this year’s Emmy Award nominations which were announced Thursday.
The series Transparent, about a father of three adult children transitioning to female at the age of 70, was nominated for outstanding comedy series and star Jeffrey Tambor was nominated for lead actor.
It is Tambor’s seventh Emmy nomination overall – the others were for Arrested Development and The Larry Sanders Show – and he has yet to win.
Orange Is The New Black, the Netflix series about life in a women’s prison, was nominated for outstanding drama series after competing as a comedy last year.
OITNB’s Uzo Aduba was nominated for outstanding supporting actress for her performance as lesbian inmate Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren. Aduba won last year in the guest actress in a comedy series category.
Two-time Emmy winner Andre Braugher earned his ninth nomination overall with a nod in the Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series category for his performance as gay cop Captain Ray Holt in Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
The HBO film Bessie, about bisexual singer Bessie Smith, was nominated for outstanding television movie and star Queen Latifah earned a nod in the lead actress in a limited series or a movie category.
Out actress Lily Tomlin, a six-time Emmy winner, was nominated in the outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for her role opposite Jane Fonda in the Netflix show Grace & Frankie. She and Fonda play women who must lean on each other after their husbands fall in love and leave them.
Other out stars nominated: Sarah Paulson for American Horror Story: Freak Show (Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Series Or A Movie); Denis O’Hare for American Horror Story: Freak Show (Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or A Movie); Alan Cumming for The Good Wife (Supporting Actor In A Drama Series); and Kate McKinnon for Saturday Night Live (Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series).
The Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition category includes last year’s winner Jane Lynch for Hollywood Game Night and Tim Gunn for Project Runway.
Parsons won his fourth Emmy just last year for The Big Bang Theory but was not nominated this year. The CBS comedy was also snubbed in the comedy series category.
The ABC comedy Modern Family, however, was nominated and has the opportunity to win for a record sixth consecutive year. But Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who play gay couple Cam and Mitch on the show, were both passed over this year.
Stonestreet has been nominated three times and won twice while Ferguson had been nominated five consecutive years but never won.
See full list of nominees at Emmys.com
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