Bella Ramsey, Niecy Nash, Nathan Lane: Here are all the 2023 LGBTQ+ Emmy nominees

Television Academy chair Frank Scherma and Yvette Nicole Brown announce the 2023 Emmy nominees.
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This morning, the Television Academy announced the nominees for the 75th Annual Emmy Awards, airing later in September on Fox. The ever-delightful and unfailingly enthusiastic Emmy-nominated actor Yvette Nicole Brown joined Television Academy chair Frank Scherma to announce the 2023 nominees in the top categories live from the Hollywood Athletic Club, where the first Emmy Awards ceremony took place in 1949.

The list of nominees announced on today’s livestream included exactly one out performer and one LGBTQ+-centric series. Nonbinary actor Bella Ramsey received a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for their role as queer teen Ellie in HBO’s The Last of Us—despite having publicly expressed discomfort in being forced into gendered awards show categories. And unsurprisingly, RuPaul’s Drag Race was once again among the nominees for Outstanding Reality Competition Program.

But there were plenty of LGBTQ+-inclusive series represented in the nominations. HBO’s…

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