Arts & Entertainment
SAG Awards honors Tambor, Aduba for LGBT roles
Screen Actors Guild gives recognition to diverse group
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The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards awarded the best in film and television for 2015 on Saturday, including notable LGBT achievements.
Jeffrey Tambor won Best Actor for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as Maura Pfefferman in “Transparent.” In his acceptance speech Tambor told the crowd he recognized his character had privilege that other trans people do not have.
“I’d just like to dedicate this award to the non-Maura Pfeffermans, who don’t have a lot of cash, for their operations, for their medicine, for their freedom,” Tambor says.
Uzo Aduba won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor for her role as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on “Orange is the New Black.” The cast of “Orange is the New Black” also won for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Queen Latifah also won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her portrayal of bisexual blues singer Bessie in the film of the same name. Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role went to Alicia Vikander for her role as Gerda Wegener in “The Danish Girl.”
Other awards included Leonardo DiCaprio winning Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Theatrical Motion Picture for “The Revenant” and Brie Larson receiving Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Theatrical Motion Picture for “Room.”
For a complete list of winners, visit here.
Celebrity News
More than 1 million people attend Madonna concert in Rio
Free event took place on Copacabana Beach on Saturday
An estimated 1.6 million people on Saturday attended Madonna’s free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.
The concert, which was the last one as part of Madonna’s Celebration Tour, included a tribute to people lost to AIDS.
Bob the Drag Queen introduced Madonna before the concert began. Pabllo Vittar, a Brazilian drag queen and singer, and Anitta, a bisexual pop star who was born in Rio’s Honório Gurgel neighborhood, also joined Madonna on stage.
Congresswoman Erika Hilton, a Black travesti and former sex worker, and Rio Municipal Councilwoman Mônica Benício, the widow of Marielle Franco, a bisexual Rio Municipal Councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018, are among those who attended the concert.
“Madonna showed that we fight important fights for the human rights of Black (people), young (people), women and LGBTQIA+ people, and against all injustice, discrimination, and violence,” said Associaçao Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals), a Brazilian trans rights group known by the acronym ANTRA, on its X account. “What they call identitarianism’ is our subversion to the retrograde and conservative tackiness that plagues the country.”
The Associated Press reported the concert was Madonna’s biggest ever.
The DC Center for the LGBTQ Community, SMYAL and Rainbow Families sponsored Gay Day at the Zoo on Sunday at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The Smithsonian observed International Family Equality Day with special exhibits and an event space.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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Annual fundraiser held for LGBTQ youth scholarship, mentorship organization
The Point Foundation held its annual Taste of Point fundraiser at Room & Board on May 2.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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