This was easily my favorite speech of the night. Thank God for Greg Berlanti, thank God he got this award at this time and said meaningful things from his heart.
Some excerpts:
“There wasn’t a lot of gay characters on television back then, and I was a closeted gay kid, and it’s hard to describe how lonely that was at the time,” Berlanti said.. “There was no Internet to connect with other queer kids, no LGBTQ+ advocacy groups in schools. Back then, the only way to tell if another kid might be gay was if he also watched Dynasty, Dallas and could name all four of the Golden Girls.”
Berlanti then recalled the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s that, along with fear, brought the first images of openly gay men on television that he saw “holding hands with other men, marching and fighting for their lives.”
“They gave me hope that I might one …