The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New TV Series is an annual award that honors television series in their first season for excellence in the depiction of LGBTQ characters and themes. It is one of several categories of the annual GLAAD Media Awards, which are presented by GLAAD—an American non-governmental media monitoring organization founded in 1985, formerly called the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation—at ceremonies in New York City and Los Angeles between March and May.