| GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Individual Episode | |
| Awarded For: | Outstanding Individual Episode |
| Presenter: | GLAAD |
| Country: | United States |
| Holder: | Dolly Parton's Heartstrings, “Two Doors Down" (2020) |
The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Individual Episode is one of the annual GLAAD Media Awards which is offered to the best LGBT-related episode of a television series without a regular LGBT character.
| width= | Year | Program | width= | Episode | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | |||||
| The Simpsons | "Homer's Phobia" | Fox | |||
| HBO Comedy Half-Hour | "Drop Dead Gorgeous (A Tragicomedy): The Power of HIV-Positive Thinking" | HBO | |||
| The Practice | "Civil Rights" | ABC | |||
| South Park | "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" | Comedy Central | |||
| "Here She Comes, Miss Amphipolis" | Syndicated | ||||
| 1999 | |||||
| Tracey Takes On... | "Religion" | HBO | |||
| ER | "Stuck on You" | NBC | |||
| That '70s Show | "Eric's Buddy" | Fox | |||
| Welcome to Paradox | "Options" | Sci-Fi | |||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | |||||
| Popular | "Wild Wild Mess" | The WB | |||
| Any Day Now | "Family Is Family" | Lifetime | |||
| "The Sissy Duckling" | HBO | ||||
| L.A. Doctors | "Been There, Done That" | CBS | |||
| Party of Five | "I'll Show You Mine" | Fox | |||
| 2001 | |||||
| Ed | "The Whole Truth" | NBC | |||
| Chicago Hope | "Boys Will Be Girls" | CBS | |||
| Family Law | "Are You My Father?" | ||||
| Freaks and Geeks | "The Little Things" | NBC | |||
| Gideon's Crossing | "Freak Show" | ABC | |||
| 2002 | |||||
| Resurrection Blvd. | "Saliendo" | Showtime | |||
| Family Law | "Gay Divorcee" | CBS | |||
| The Guardian | "The Men from the Boys" | ||||
| Judging Amy | "Between the Wanting and the Getting" | ||||
| Law & Order | "Phobia" | NBC | |||
| 2003 | |||||
| Resurrection Blvd. | "Pararse" | Showtime | |||
| Crossing Jordan | "Scared Straight" | NBC | |||
| George Lopez | "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Honey?" | ABC | |||
| Grounded for Life | "Relax!" | Fox | |||
| King of the Hill | "My Own Private Rodeo" | ||||
| 2004 | |||||
| Boston Public | "Chapter Fifty-Eight" | Fox | |||
| The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire | "Sleeping Lions" | CBS | |||
| Cold Case | "A Time to Hate" | ||||
| Girlfriends | "And Baby Makes Four" | UPN | |||
| "Fallacy" | NBC | ||||
| 2005 | |||||
| Jack & Bobby | "The Lost Boys" | The WB | |||
| Cold Case | "Daniela" | CBS | |||
| "It's Raining Men" | |||||
| Strong Medicine | "The Real World Rittenhouse" | Lifetime | |||
| Two and a Half Men | "Old Flame with a New Wick" | CBS | |||
| 2006 | |||||
| Cold Case | "Best Friends" | CBS | |||
| My Name Is Earl | "Pilot" | NBC | |||
| "Alien" | NBC | ||||
| What I Like About You | "Someone's in the Kitchen with Daddy" | The WB | |||
| Without a Trace | "Transitions" | CBS | |||
| 2007 | |||||
| Grey's Anatomy | "Where the Boys Are" | ABC | |||
| American Dad! | "Lincoln Lover" | Fox | |||
| Cold Case | "Forever Blue" | CBS | |||
| How I Met Your Mother | "Single Stamina" | ||||
| 30 Rock | "Blind Date" | NBC | |||
| 2008 | |||||
| Boston Legal | "Do Tell" | ABC | |||
| Cold Case | "Boy Crazy" | CBS | |||
| Kyle XY | "Free to Be You and Me" | ABC Family | |||
| "Sin" | NBC | ||||
| My Name Is Earl | "The Gangs of Camden County" | ||||
| 2009 | |||||
| The New Adventures of Old Christine | "Unidentified Funk" | CBS | |||
| ER | "Tandem Repeats" | NBC | |||
| Ghost Whisperer | "Slam" | CBS | |||
| Life on Mars | "My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi" | ABC | |||
| Supernatural | "Ghostfacers" | The CW | |||
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||
| Parks and Recreation | "Pawnee Zoo" | NBC | ||
| The Listener | "Lisa Says" | NBC | ||
| Private Practice | "Homeward Bound" | ABC | ||
| "Wait and See" | ||||
| Supernatural | "The Real Ghostbusters" | The CW | ||
| 2011[1] | ||||
| 30 Rock | "Klaus and Greta" | NBC | ||
| Bored to Death | "Escape from the Castle!" | HBO | ||
| Drop Dead Diva | "Queen of Mean" | Lifetime | ||
| Law & Order | "Innocence" | NBC | ||
| "Samaritan" | BBC America | |||
| 2012[2] | ||||
| Drop Dead Diva | "Prom" | Lifetime | ||
| Hot in Cleveland | "Beards" | TV Land | ||
| Are We There Yet? | "The Boy Has Style" | TBS | ||
| Man Up! | "Acceptance" | ABC | ||
| NCIS | "Recruited" | CBS | ||
| 2013[3] | ||||
| Raising Hope | "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do" | Fox | ||
| Drop Dead Diva | "Family Matters" | Lifetime | ||
| Franklin & Bash | "L'affaire Du Coeur" | TNT | ||
| The Mentalist | "Ruby Slippers" | CBS | ||
| Touch | "Lost and Found" | Fox | ||
| 2014[4] | ||||
| Elementary | "Snow Angels" | CBS | ||
| Drop Dead Diva | "Secret Lives" | Lifetime | ||
| Necessary Roughness | "There's the Door" | USA | ||
| The Soul Man | "Bride and Prejudice" | TV Land | ||
| Supernatural | "LARP and the Real Girl" | The CW | ||
| 2015[5] | ||||
| Drop Dead Diva | "Identity Crisis" | Lifetime | ||
| Doctor Who | "Deep Breath" | BBC America | ||
| Elementary | "No Lack of Void" | CBS | ||
| Good Luck Charlie | "Down a Tree" | Disney Channel | ||
| Playing House | "Let's Have a Baby" | USA | ||
| 2016[6] | ||||
| Royal Pains | "The Prince of Nucleotides" | USA | ||
| Black-ish | "Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell" | ABC | ||
| The Carmichael Show | "Gender" | NBC | ||
| NCIS | "We Build, We Fight" | CBS | ||
| "Rock-A-Bye-Baby" | ||||
| 2017[7] | ||||
| Black Mirror | "San Junipero" | Netflix | ||
| Black-ish | "Johnson & Johnson" | ABC | ||
| Drunk History | "Bar Fights" | Comedy Central | ||
| Easy | "Vegan Cinderella" | Netflix | ||
| The Loud House | "Attention Deficit" | Nickelodeon | ||
| 2018 | ||||
| Master of None | "Thanksgiving" | Netflix | ||
| Legion | "Chapter 8" | FX | ||
| Pure Genius | "Grace" | CBS | ||
| Easy | "Lady Cha Cha" | Netflix | ||
| Room 104 | "The Missionaries" | HBO | ||
| 2019 | ||||
| The Guest Book | "Someplace Other Than Here" | TBS | ||
| Fresh Off the Boat | "King in the North" | ABC | ||
| Fuller House | "Prom" | Netflix | ||
| The Good Doctor | "She" | ABC | ||
| "Service" | NBC | |||
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020[8] | ||||
| Dolly Parton's Heartstrings | "Two Doors Down" | Netflix | ||
| Drunk History | "Love" | Comedy Central | ||
| Law & Order: SVU | "Murdered at a Bad Address" | NBC | ||
| Easy | "Spontaneous Combusion" | Netflix | ||
| Watchmen | "This Extraordinary Being" | HBO |