Lady Gaga and Dancing With The Stars
were among the winners at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
(Glaad) awards in Los Angeles.
Dancing With The Stars won
outstanding reality TV programme for featuring contestant Chaz Bono, the
transgender child of singers Cher and Sonny Bono.
Lady Gaga won outstanding music
artist for her album Born This Way.
Glaad promotes positive images of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the media.
The producers of new TV musical
drama series Smash picked up the Vito Russo award at the ceremony.
Winners Neil Meron and Craig Zadan
are also behind movies including Oscar-winning musical Chicago and Hairspray.
The prize is named after the late
gay rights activist and presented to an openly LGBT media professional who has
made a significant contribution to promoting equality.
Zadan said being gay was "part
of who I am, so it impacts the work that we do".
Meron said he and Zadan had spent
years trying to "fight, persuade and manipulate" the entertainment
industry to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters and
stories.
Zadan and Meron's first big TV success
was Gypsy starring Bette Midler in 1994
They also recounted how they had
received death threats following their controversial 2003 mini-series The
Reagans, which argued that former US President Ronald Reagan failed to
recognise the Aids crisis.
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
presented openly gay high school pupil Katy Butler with a special award for
spearheading a campign to persuade US film censors to lower its rating for
documentary Bully.
HBO's Cinema Verite, meanwhile,
picked up the best TV movie or mini-series award.
It starred Tim Robbins, Diane Lane
and James Gandolfini and was based on the 1973 PBS American Family documentary
that featured the first openly gay person on television.
Best talk show episode went to Oprah
Winfrey's programme for the episode Coming Out on the Oprah Show: 25 Years of
Unforgettable Guests.
Playwright Tony Kushner won the theatre award
for his play, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism
with a Key to the Scriptures
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