Lunch Break Videos: See Joy Behar and Sigourney Weaver accept GLAAD Media Awards

Joy Behar was funny and humble last Saturday when she accepted the GLAAD Media Awards: “I’d rather get this award than the Oscar,” she told the crowd. “You helped me so much in my career.” She looked back on her career as a schoolteacher in New York then being a receptionist at Good Morning America where she was eventually fired. So she became a a stand-up comic who gay crowds quickly embraced: “The gay community was so great and warm to me … They got all the jokes and I’ll forever be grateful to you for that.”

The classy and thoughtful Sigourney Weaver was nominated for the Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG award for her performance in Prayers for Bobby but each time lost out to either Jessica Lange or Drew Barrymore from Grey Gardens. So when she finally made it to the podium at the GLAAD Awards, she was ready to say something meaningful. At the end, she said directly to those in the audience: “I just want to say, I Love you. You are on the front lines fighting for our common humanity which is the glory of all ofus being who we are.”

And finally, the cast of Hair performs Let the Sunshine In led by the out and proud Gavin Greel. He then accepted a Special Recognition Award for the cast and producers’ support of LGBT equality. The cast and producers actively supported the National Equality March held in Washington D.C. in October of 2009. In the weeks leading up to the march, they re-staged the finale of the play to actively encourage audience members to attend the march for LGBT equality. Then, on the weekend of the march, the play went dark so the entire cast could attend and perform in Washington, D.C
Bonus Video Below: Meredith Vieria’s funny presentation to Behar who she referred to as her lesbian lover: