Rosie, Runway, Oprah Get GLAAD
Rosie O'Donnell, Project Runway and Patti LaBelle are painting the town pink.
The deserving, if not wholly unexpected, winners of the GLAAD Media Awards gathered in New York Monday night for the East Coast celebration of the watchdog group's 18th annual awards do, honoring the positive portrayal of gay and lesbian issues in the media.
O'Donnell took home the nod for Outstanding Documentary for All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise. The HBO special chronicled the making and carrying out of her family-oriented cruise line, geared specifically toward family units led by gay or lesbian parents.
During her acceptance speech, O'Donnell paid tribute to fellow nominee Billie Jean King, a lesbian tennis champ, saying, "If it hadn't been for Billie Jean King, there wouldn't have been a gay movement."
Patti LaBelle was also on hand for the evening, taking home the ceremony's top honor, the Excellence in Media Award. The nod was presented to her by Jennifer Hudson, herself no stranger to the podium, for the R&B legend's continued dedication to championing equal rights and the fight against AIDS.
While accepting her award, LaBelle praised Hudson, saying, "I didn't know you were this nice. I though you were a bitch."
A humbled Hudson replied: "You are who I idolize."
In addition to presenting and accepting the award and compliments, the duo also performed together, belting out an a cappella version of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen."
The award for Outstanding Reality Program this year went to Bravo's knockout hit Project Runway. "Make it work" mentor Tim Gunn was on hand to collect the honor from GLAAD, which proved itself to be an equal opportunity fashion lauder: designer Tom Ford was given the Vito Russo Award by pal Julianne Moore for his work as a gay role model. Marc Jacobs was also singled out for his line's advertising campaign.
This year's Outstanding Daily Drama award went to All My Children, the ABC soap opera that made headlines earlier this year after introducing the character Zarf, a transgendered lesbian rocker, into Pine Valley.
As with most media-based awards shows, Oprah Winfrey also failed to walk away empty-handed, taking home the award for Outstanding Talk Show Episode for a show entitled "Wives Confess They Are Gay."
Other major winners included Quinceañera, which took home the Outstanding Film award for portraying a pregnant teenager who gets taken in by a gay cousin, the Scissor Sisters, who nabbed the Outstanding Music Artist award for their new album Ta-Dah, and Details magazine, which won for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage.
The New York ceremony, which will be followed by bashes in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami in the coming two months, dished out 26 of the year's 42 categories.
The show, which recognizes the representations of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in mainstream media, and rather ironically and controversially ignores the programming on "alternative" gay media networks Here! and Logo, airs on the latter cable net Apr. 21.
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