Cynthia Nixon is GLAAD all over!

It's great news for Sex And The City star and lovely lesbian Cynthia Nixon as she wins top award from GLAAD in New York  yesterday.      'm so pleased for her,  as recently the out lesbian actress has spoken out loud and clear in support of gay and equal rights. Not least her recent declaration of support for Fight Back New York,  see here.    Nixon get the Vito Russo award. "We are bringing marriage back to its fundamentals and revitalizing it from its roots up," " she said as she accepted the honorary award at what was the 21st annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards.


Other notable award recipients included the outspoken Joy Behar, who gains a Excellence in Media award, mainly for her attitude in bring gay rights up on daily talk show 'The View'   which I miss greatly over here in the UK.     While The Oprah Winfrey show got best talk show episode for "Ellen DeGeneres and Her Wife Portia De Rossi" 

Top actress Sigourney Weaver accepted the award for outstanding TV mini-series for  "Prayers for Bobby."  a show that's based on a true story, in which Ms  Weaver played a religious housewife who struggles to accept her son is gay in the 70's.   ABC TV drama  "Brothers & Sisters" won the outstanding drama series award for their storyline of a gay married couple looking to start a family,  which has had positive comments from many people, critics and fans alike.

Outstanding TV Journalism award went to The Rachel Maddow show for it's series 'Uganda Be Killing Me.   The New York Times was a big winner last night,  gaining four awards, including one for best overall newspaper coverage. Whilst best magazine went to,  not surprisingly The Advocate.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. 

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Other awards included - 

Outstanding Daily Drama: One Life to Live (ABC)

Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: "Uganda Be Kidding Me" (series) The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)

Outstanding Newspaper Article: "Kept From a Dying Partner's Bedside" by Tara Parker-Pope (The New York Times)

Outstanding Newspaper Columnist: Frank Rich (The New York Times)

Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage: The New York Times

Outstanding Magazine Article: "Coming Out in Middle School" by Benoit Denizet-Lewis (The New York Times Magazine)

Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage: The Advocate

Outstanding Comic Book: Detective Comics by Greg Rucka (DC Comics)

Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off–Broadway: A Boy and His Soul by Colman Domingo

Outstanding New York Theater: Off–Off Broadway: She Like Girls by Chisa Hutchinson

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