In February 2020, 850 submissions where sent into the final poll of upstart Loring Collective’s 2020 Loring Awards. The Collective was humbled to receive such a large response in support of Twin Cities queer creatives as it shows how strong the community is. Below is the official list of the results of our 8 categories for everyone to see.
We wish to stress that all of our nominees should be proud as they are well deserving of their nominations, and just because a nominee didn’t win does not mean we will not seek to support and feature said nominees in whatever ways we can. Every category was EXTREMELY competitive with the winners in some categories winning by under .5% of the total vote. By doing a voter based awards program, we aimed to increase recognition and sense of local queer community amongst all of our nominees. As we believe we have succeeded in doing just that, we intend to continue voter-based awards for future Loring Awards in years to come. Find out more about the 2021 Loring Awards here.
2020 LORING AWARDS - OFFICIAL RESULTS
Record of the Year
Asparagus - Floodwater Angel
Dirty Laundry - Kate Malanaphy
Do What You Do - 26 BATS!
New Song No. 2 - Gully Boys (WINNER)
Sinful Delightful - Static Panic
Album of the Year
Glow - Static Panic
Grow Up - VIAL
Onyx - 26 BATS!
Phony - Gully Boys
Soak - Kate Malanaphy (WINNER)
Artist of the Year
Floodwater Angel
Gully Boys (WINNER)
Kate Malanaphy
Static Panic
26 BATS!
Upcoming Artist of the Year
Alien Book Club
Dad Bod
Keep for Cheap
Mrs. Pinky and the Great Fox
VIAL (WINNER)
Drag Royal of the Year
Brova Supernova
Seamus Shenanigan
Sissy Tops (WINNER)
Ven geance
Vincent The Destroyer
Fashion Icon of the Year
drey dk
Jack Squier
Jeb Shrub
Nocturna Lee Mission (WINNER)
Artist of the Year (Visual)
Aiden James (WINNER)
Alexis Politz
Cedar Thomas
Ezra Bebop
Kaledzine
Victor Nartovich
Creative Activist of the Year
Jacob Thomas
Nadi McGill (WINNER)
Xochi De La Luna