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You never know who will show up on the red carpet at the GLAAD Media Awards! Last year it was Ellen. Who will it be this year?
Sign up to watch the red carpet live stream this Saturday: http://glaad.org/live
On the season premiere of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen welcomed openly gay college student Jordan Addison of Roanoke, Virginia, whose car was vandalized with anti-gay graffiti four times between March and May of this year, and auto repair shop owner Richard Henegar Jr. After hearing about the vandalism and that Jordan could not afford repairs with a student’s budget, Richard offered to fix the car free of charge, putting $10,000 worth of work behind his act of kindness. The story garnered local media attention and supportive responses from around the nation. After talking to Jordan and Richard about their story, Ellen surprised the two guests by announcing that Cover Girl would be giving each of them a check for $25,000… read full post
We LOVE what Oprah Winfrey had to say about Ellen Degeneres in The Hollywood Reporter!
“Being able to be free — literally — and to express herself in a way that she can be 100 percent truthful with the audience has allowed them to fall in love with her.”
http://www.glaad.org/news/booming-business-ellen-degeneres-broke-and-banished-daytimes-top-earner
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Backstage at the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Kat Graham speaks out in support of the gay mom ousted as her son’s den leader. Go Kat!!!
Watch her video and share! http://glaad.org/blog/kat-graham-shows-support-gay-mom-ousted-boy-scouts-leader-ellen-degeneres-show
