The GLAAD Media Awards will be hosted by Margaret Cho, with Orville Peck and Fletcher among the performers. The awards, which celebrate fair, honest, and inclusive LGBTQ media portrayal, will be held at the Beverly Hilton on March 30. The GLAAD Award ceremony will be available on Hulu from April 12 and here’s how you can stream the awards on Hulu outside US.
Cho is a Grammy and Emmy award-winning performer, activist, and entrepreneur whose credits include The Flight Attendant, Hacks, Stand Out: An LGBTQ Celebration, Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live, Fire Island, and the upcoming Disney+ film Prom Pact.
Fletcher is a pop sensation who has had successes such as Arcade, Bitter, and most recently, Becky’s So Hot. Peck is a composer and country artist whose songs include Dead of Night and Roses Are Falling.
Fletcher announced that he would be performing at the awards in a tweet, which also called for donations for GLAAD.
honored to be performing at the #GLAADAwards in LA on march 30! for my upcoming birthday, i launched a fundraiser on my instagram supporting the important work @glaad does for the lgbtq community. if you can, it would be a true gift to me if you donated (no amount too small!) 🤍 pic.twitter.com/kr6G7eoFmU
— FLETCHER (@findingfletcher) March 14, 2023
Publicist Sarah M Cunningham also announced Peck’s performance on Twitter.
So excited that @orvillepeck will perform at the #GLAADawards in LA on March 30! You can watch the ceremony starting April 12 on @Hulu. @glaad pic.twitter.com/6K3ZYgTm2M
— sarah m cunningham (@sarahmary) March 15, 2023
Both Fletcher and Peck have been nominated for GLAAD’s music artist award, along with Anitta, Betty Who, Demi Lovato, Hayley Kiyoko, Honey Dijon, Kim Petras, Muna, and Rina Sawayama.
Other special guests at the event will include Gabrielle Union, Billy Eichner and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
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The stars being honored at the ceremony include Christina Aguilera, Bad Bunny and Jeremy Pope.
Aguilera will take home the Advocate for Change award for her activism surrounding HIV and LGBTQ issues.
“I was also proud to put a spotlight on the LGBTQ+ community with my “Beautiful” music video, which features a gay couple, as well as a trans woman,” Aguilera wrote in a letter shared by publications last year, recalling her 2002 music video.
“I wasn’t thinking too much about it beyond wanting to show people owning who they are. It was somehow taboo at the time, but it represented something so true. I still hear stories about how that video has helped people, and it means everything to me.”
She added: “There’s nothing like performing for my LGBTQ+ fans. I feel safe with them to express myself however I want, whether it be through a huge ballad or something super sensual because they appreciate it all. I get to be as colorful and loud as I want to be. They’re my people.”
Bunny will be given GLAAD’s Vanguard award, placing him in the company of Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Cher and Janet Jackson, all of whom are previous recipients of the honour. Bad Bunny made news last year after kissing a male backup dancer during his MTV Video Music Awards performance. After a homeless transgender woman called Alexa Negrón Luciano was killed on the street in Puerto Rico, the artist appeared on The Tonight Show wearing a shirt that read: “They Killed Alexa. Not a Man in a Skirt.”
Pope will all be honoured with the Stephen F. Kolzak award which signifies the acknowledgement of LGBTQ media professionals’ increased queer visibility and acceptance through their work. In recent years, the award has gone to MJ Rodriguez, Janet Mock, Troye Sivan, Sean Hayes, Jim Parsons, and more.
Pope said that he was turned down for a main part in a major studio picture after a director warned him that his sexual orientation would prohibit him from connecting with a female character. “I had to go through that and understand my worth and my existence and how I want to show up in this business and what I’m willing to tolerate and not tolerate,” he said.
