Beginners, Chaz Bono, Josh Hutcherson, Modern Family Win GLAAD Awards

The Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards were presented on Saturday, April 21 in Beverly Hills. Celebrities on hand included Cher, Benicio Del Toro, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Mike Mills, and Jason Mraz, according to reports..

Chaz Bono won the Stephen F. Kolzak Award for promoting equality, will Becoming Chaz, the documentary about his transition from a woman to a man, received outstanding documentary.

In addition, Beginners, which starred Oscar winner Christopher Plummer as an aging gay man who comes out to his son (played by Ewan McGregor), won outstanding wide-release film; ABC’s hit sitcom Modern Family, which co-stars Ferguson, was named outstanding comedy series; and Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva, starring Brooke Elliott, and TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland, which stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, and Betty White, tied for outstanding television episode.

In addiiton, film actorJosh Hutcherson received the Vanguard Award for co-founding the tolerance group Straight But Not Narrow.

For more information, visit www.glaad.org