GLAAD Media Awards: A Night of Confusion
Cynthia Nixon showed up at last night’s GLAAD Media Awards as an out-and-proud lesbian — a big step, given her involuntary outing by gossip columns a few years back — but her showy $50,000 donation to the LGBT cause, announced by GLAAD president Neil Giuliano in front of a capacity crowd at the Marriot Marquis, came as an even bigger surprise. Particularly, as it turns out, to Nixon herself. “I don’t know if it was a joke or a case of mistaken identity,” she said when we bumped into her later. “I donated $1,000.” (This morning we were greeted with a voice message from a GLAAD flack setting the record straight, as it were.)
21 questions
Patti LaBelle Will Cook You DinnerName: Patti LaBelle
Age: 62
Job: Entertainer; receiving the Excellence in Media Award at tonight’s GLAAD Media Awards
Neighborhood: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Denise Rich.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
A meal I cooked in one of my hotel suites. I made a great meal for me and my
crew.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
I try to touch people.