My recap of Family Equality Council’s Impact Awards honoring Greg Berlanti, Sara Gilbert & Linda Perry

Sharon Osbourne did not appear until the final minute of Saturday night’s Family Equality Council’s Impact Awards then proceeded to steal the show.

The talk show personality was on hand to honor her co-host on The Talk, Sara Gilbert, and Gilbert’s musician wife Linda Perry.

Osbourne (pictured, left) lamented that it’s so boring being straight and that ‘I’m always asking Sara on the show what it’s like to get a good licking. I just don’t remember really.’

It was the line of the night during an evening where $570,701 was raised for the Family Equality Council which fights for the rights of LGBTI families.

As Gilbert looked out into the audience at the Beverly Hilton Hotel she said: ‘I don’t know why I’m nervous – it really can’t get any worse than that introduction! It’s all uphill from there.’

But Perry’s reaction was different: ‘Sara gets embarrassed so easily – I loved it!’

The musician had performed her song Beautiful which she had written for Christina Aguilera and What’s Up, her hit with 4 Non Blondes, earlier in the evening.

She was moved by the award and emotional is talking about her family which includes the couple’s one year old son who ‘has changed my life.’

‘I feel pretty blessed,’ Perry said. ‘I don’t know what happened, I don’t know what I did.”

In addition to Gilbert and Perry, prolific television producer Greg Berlanti was also honored with an award presented by Calista Flockhart who stars in one of his current hits Supergirl and starred in his past hit Brothers & Sisters.

‘Greg has been pushing the TV envelope – he is showing gay people as they really are and always in the context of their family and friends,’ Flockhart told the crowd.

‘I believe it’s true the world has changed in the last 10 years … it’s because of people like Greg Berlanti who has helped lead the way.’

Berlanti was deeply moved by the award but reminded the crowd: ‘I’ve been a parent all of 24 days.’

So he focused on thanking those in the room who were ahead of him and made it possible for him to become a gay parent.

Berlanti emotionally recalled when he came out to his parents at the age of 23, his dad was upset because he felt his son would never have a child of his own.

Then recently, after a visit with new new grandson, Caleb, the new grandfather later texted his son to say how lucky the child was to have him as a dad.

Also appearing at the ceremony were David Monahan and Larry Sullivan (pictured, right), the couple who starred in a Star wars-themed Campbell’s Soup commercial with their son which went viral last year. and Rob and Reece Scheer and their four adopted children who were featured in the magazine American Girl for their charity helping foster children.

Both families were attacked by the anti-gay group One Million Moms.

Show host Caroline Rhea described One Million Moms as ‘big, bossy, bully bitches. Hate them! One Million Moms is really 60,000 – they can’t add.’

Rhea had also earlier claimed to be the first heterosexual to ever host the Family Equality Council’s Impact awards but then quickly added: ‘That might not be entirely accurate because Sam Smith write my speech.’

Also appearing during the evening were celebrity presenters Tuc Watkins and Alec Mapa (pictured, right) and Carly Lehwald whose family story of her transitioning was told in the TV series Becoming Us.

In addition to Perry’s two song set, there were musical performances by singers Jeremy Jordan of TV’s Supergirl and Smash and Levi Kreiss who won the Tony Award in 2011 for Million Dollar Quartet.

Celebrities in the audience included Olympic diving legend Greg Louganis (pictured below with husband Johnny Chaillot-Louganis), Emmy winner Beau Bridges and blogger Perez Hilton.