The third and final leg of of the 20th GLAAD Media Awards was held in San Francisco last night hosted by Chelsea Handler. Awards were given for Outstanding Television Movie, Outstanding Reality Program and Outstanding TV Journalism. Chad Allen, Dustin Lance Black, and filmmakers Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw were also honored. The following is a complete list of the awards presented and photos taken from the red carpet.

• Davidson/Valentini Award: Chad Allen

• Special Recognition: Dustin Lance Black

• Special Recognition: Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw

• Outstanding Television Movie: East Side Story (Logo)

• Outstanding Reality Program: TIE: I Want to Work for Diddy (VH1) and Transamerican Love Story (Logo)

• Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: “Funding the Marriage War”
  In the Life (PBS)

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Photos by Inside, Looking Out.

Mario Lavandeira also known as Perez Hilton, got YouTube to yank the “No Offense” video for 3 seconds of copyright infringement.

I have only one word. Touche.

Video can still be found here…

Judy Shepard responds to the passing of hate crimes legislation in the House and to the remarks made by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, who said the murder of Matthew Shepard because he was gay, a hoax.

Note: At the request of the Rachel Maddow Show, I am replacing the YouTube version with the video provided by MSNBC.

Please donate to the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Judy and this Foundation deserve our support in the face of such terrible ignorance and hate.

Opening at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival this week, OUTRAGE is a new gay- themed political documentary by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick. As described on the film’s website…

A searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community, OUTRAGE boldly reveals the hidden lives of some of our nation’s most powerful policymakers, detailing the harm they’ve inflicted on millions of Americans, and the media’s complicity in keeping their secrets.

And from an early review of the film.

Where Dick’s film truly succeeds is in laying consequences at both men’s feet. For [Ed] Koch, it was silence during the exploding AIDS crisis… [Charlie] Crist, who has shown himself to be a moderate, or even liberal-leaning, Republican on a variety of issues – as well as a craven opportunist – is shown backing both a gay marriage amendment as well as that state’s unique law prohibiting adoption by gay parents.

Set against both men’s stories, Dick, working with his editor Doug Blush, unleashes a succession of news reports detailing hate crimes against gays and lesbians, ending with a 14-year old shooting a 15-year old at Oxnard High School in California.

It’s here that the film makes its powerful, and frankly compelling, closing argument – as Kirby Dick draws a line from the DC political closet to the death in Oxnard.

Watch the trailer.