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Winning Governors Award Is Personal For GLAAD, President & CEO Sarah Kate Ellis Says In Emmy Speech
GLAAD received the Television Academy’s 2023 Governors Award on Monday at the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer media-advocacy organization …
“For all of us at GLAAD, this work is personal, for me, it’s about my wife and our kids, because what the world sees on TV directly influences how we treat each other and the decisions we make in our living rooms, schools, at work, and at the ballot box,” GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis said tonight onstage to accept the honorary Emmy from presenters Hannah Waddingham and Colman Domingo. “And now is the time to take action – to support everyone in the LGBTQ community, because this story is still being told and we all can be the heroes,” added Ellis, who has been president and CEO of GLAAD since 2014. Other previous recipients include Star Trek, American Idol, mtvU Campaign for Darfur, PBS, Masterpiece Theater, Hallmark Cards Inc. and Walter Cronkite.
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