Janet’s acceptance speech from Logo’s NewNowNext Awards can now be seen on the Logo website.
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Janet to perform at LOGO Awards
Janet will perform and receive an award at the 2008 NewNowNext Awards. The ceremony, hosted by LOGO, will take place on June 7th and 9pm ET and will be shown live on the LOGO network as well as their website.
Janet received the Vanguard Award at last night’s 19th Annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards in Hollywood. Janet was presented with the award by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. In her acceptance speech, Janet said: “To everyone at GLAAD and everyone in this room, I would just to say that I hope I can always walk worthy of this award that I have both in my hand and my heart.”
She added: “Even when I was younger, when I was growing up, my mother was very religious but there were a lot of kids who were dancers that she brought into the home and now that I think about it, they were gay.
“They all called her ‘Mother’ and she treated every one of them like they were her children. And that’s where it kind of started, I suppose. I’ve been around the community all my life.”
Check out over 50 photos from the event below.