A teary-eyed Kristin Chenoweth accepted the Vanguard Award at Sunday's 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles for her work to increase the visibility and understanding of the LGBT community in the media. Last year, Chenoweth, a devout Christian, wrote a lengthy response to a Newsweek article that claimed gay male actors couldn't successfully play straight men, instigating a media debacle that led 'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy to call for a boycott of Newsweek and the article's author to briefly resign from the magazine.
Accepting her award, the actress, who is also an Emmy and Tony Award winner, said, "I want to encourage many people of all faiths to come forward and stand with me. Even if you don't believe in Jesus the way I do, he did teach love -- not just tolerance, but acceptance. I'm lucky I had parents who adopted me at birth, conservative Southern Baptists, who said, 'You will love everyone the same.'"
Watch Sean Hayes present Chenoweth with the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Award's Vanguard prize:
Last summer, Chenoweth slammed writer Ramin Setoodeh for his claims in an article entitled 'Straight Jacket' that her 'Promises, Promises' co-star Sean Hayes, one of several actors cited in the article, couldn't effectively play a straight man. Setoodeh claimed Hayes performance in 'Promises' "devolves into unintentional camp" when he tried to pick up a woman at a bar, and that when openly gay 'Glee' actor Jonathan Groff "smiles or giggles
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