From: NewNowNext
In honor of the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, airing Monday, April 4 at 10/9c, on Logo, we’ve compiled some of the greatest moments in the ceremony’s nearly three decades.
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Phil Donahue accepts the first award
1990
Donahue received the Media Person of the Year Award at GLAAD’s inaugural ceremony for depicting diverse and accurate representations of the LGBT community on his popular talk show. He was joined on stage by GLAAD founder Vito Russo, who died just months later.
In 2009, Donahue received a Special Recognition Award from GLAAD for his ongoing activism, and addressed the “warp speed” advancement gay rights had made.
“Twenty years ago, when I proudly accepted the first GLAAD Media Award. it was a very small crowd. There are more photographers here tonight than there were people then. Now … the majority of the people in the nation agree with us. Our job now is to summon these people to stand up and say so out loud. To tell them to join us.”
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