Los Angeles Edition Of GLAAD Awards

The 21st GLAAD – Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation – Awards, the Los Angeles edition, was held Saturday night, in Los Angeles, naturally, Wanda Sykes earning the Stephen F. Kolzak award, and Drew Barrymore the Vanguard award. Also receiving awards were Fox’s Glee for Outstanding Comedy Series, A Single Man for Outstanding Film wide release, RuPaul’s Drag Race for Outstanding Reality Program, and Telemundo Noticiero’s Polemicas Adopciones for Outstanding Spanish-Language Television Journalism Segment. Elke Kennedy, the founder of Sean’s Last Wish, was also on hand, speaking to to audience about her son, Sean, who was killed May 17th, 2007, outside a bar in Greenville, South Carolina, in an anti-gay hate attack, but whose killer was sentence to little more than a year in prison, because at the time in America, no federal hate crime protection policy was in place. Sean was 20 years old when he was murdered. Kennedy spoke of the importance of the passage by President Barack Obama late last year of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act. Among those in attendance, Adam Lambert, who performed, Brad Goreski, sans bow-tie, and wearing vaguely modern glasses, Chris Colfer, the smoking sexy Chris Salvatore, Constance McMillen, who presented Sykes with her award, Johnny Weir, and the deeply dreamy Scott Fujita.