Tina Fey was also on hand to accept the Outstanding Individual Episode award for '30 Rock.'
By Jocelyn Vena
Ricky Martin at the GLAAD Awards on Saturday
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Tina Fey, "True Blood" star Denis O'Hare and Patrick Wilson are just of few of the celebrities who gathered at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, hosted by Bravo's Andy Cohen on Saturday in New York. The awards honor "fair, accurate and inclusive representations" of the LGBT community in television and journalism.
Big winners of the night included "True Blood," which won for Outstanding Drama Series, and "30 Rock," which won for Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBT character) for its "Klaus & Greta" episode. Entrepreneur Russell Simmons was honored with the Excellence in Media Award.
Ricky Martin took home the Vito Russo Award, which is presented to a "lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equality for the LGBT community."
In his speech, Martin credited GLAAD for helping him cope in the wake of his public coming out last year on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." He then went on to push for Latin American gay rights and asked that GLAAD stand up for those who can't in that community. "I just want to be free. I can say today I'm free," he said at the event. "And for that I definitely need to thank my parents for being so supportive, my mother and my dad for their unconditional love, and my friends, my family, my fans. And my partner in crime and my boyfriend Carlos."
That was only the beginning of the accolades for those projects and people nominated, with additional GLAAD awards scheduled to be handed out in Los Angeles on April 10 and in San Francisco on May 14.
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