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GLAAD announced that Daytime Emmy award-winning talk show host from "The View" Joy Behar will receive the Excellence in Media Award at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Along with Drew Barrymore and Wanda Sykes. Past recipients: Julianne Moore, Diane Sawyer, Glenn Close, Tyra Banks. Guests: Isis King (America's Next Top Model); and Jill Zarin ("The Real Housewives of New York City"). "Precious" star Gabourey Sibide will open the show. 

Award winning actress Cherry Jones (The Heiress, Doubt, 24) received the Point Courage Award September 26 from the Point Foundation, a scholarship-granting organization for LGBT students of merit. It’s been a good week for the out actress … she also won an Emmy Award last weekend for her portrayal of President Allison Taylor in the Fox series 24.

SheWired is thrilled to announce that The Gay and Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) is awarding Boston-based lesbian activist, scholar, columnist and public theologian Rev. Irene Monroe with its Spirit of Justice Award for 2012. Monroe has been contributing her thoughtful columns that often get at the intersection of LGBT issues, race, religion, politics and pop culture to SheWired since its inception in 2008.

With the Emmy Awards around the corner we're throwing back to some of our favorite out winners and nominees.

While Eminem may be leading the nominations with 10 nods, we’re way more excited at the thought of Lady Gaga, Florence & the Machine, the cast of Glee, Goldfrapp, Robyn, or La Roux snagging a golden statuette. Check out which of your favorite artists are up for a 2011 Grammy Award and see our picks to win it noted in bold.

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow will receive an award from the Interfaith Alliance named for the late broadcaster Walter Cronkite. The award honors her coverage of religion and politics. Maddow will be presented with the 2010 Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award at a gala dinner in New York. Also receiving the award with Maddow on October 24 will be the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the department of religion at the Chautauqua Institution.

Fun Home won big and made history.

So many amazing women on the red carpet...

The Saturday Night Live funnywoman could be crowned Best Supporting Comedy Actress on TV.