See Sarah Kate Ellis accept the Governors Award on behalf of GLAAD at the 75th Emmy Awards

GLAAD received the Television Academy’s 2023 Governors Award on Monday at the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards and bravo to GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis for a magnificent speech.

“For all of us at GLAAD, this work is personal, for me, it’s about my wife and our kids, because what the world sees on TV directly influences how we treat each other and the decisions we make in our living rooms, schools, at work, and at the ballot box,” she said. “The world urgently needs culture-changing stories about transgender people. More people say they have seen a ghost than know a trans person. When you don’t know people, it’s easy to demonize them. Visibility creates understanding and opens doors, it’s life-saving. Our community has achieved so much and yet, we are still being victimized and villainized with cruel and harmful lies. Sharing stories is the antidote.

“And now is the time to take action – to support everyone in the LGBTQ community, because this story is still being told and we all can be the heroes.”