It’s
Schitt’s Creek Week! A mere two days after the Canadian show garnered a whopping 15 Emmy nominations in the acting, writing, and production categories, the GLAAD Media Awards were like, “Moira dahhling, you want awards? Here, have more!” and honoured the show with the award for
Outstanding Comedy Series.The 31st Annual GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Media Awards took place Thursday evening (in a virtual format), streaming the ceremony on YouTube and Facebook in the U.S. and sharing select winners' Zoom speeches and performances
on social media. The awards honour the best in Hollywood for their portrayals of LGBTQ+ characters, themes, and situations. And apparently that extends to Canada too, because as Dan Levy pointed out,
Schitt’s Creek is purely Canadian and hardly Hollywood.
“We do this show up in Canada three months out of the year and then I’m up there in edit and in post, and to see these friends of mine who are behind the scenes who have done such unbelievable work on the show getting recognized at the Emmys it’s like… The morning of the announcements, we were all just calling each other in complete disbelief,” he laughed as he spoke with Seth Meyers for
Late Night.“You could not ask for a better end to such a lovely story for all of us. Our entire cast and crew started with nothing, and now ended up with Emmys. It’s a storybook ending,” he continued. The
Schitt’s Creek’s series finale aired in April after six seasons.Those sentiments echo what Dan told
etalk over the phone earlier in the week--that American success is fun and all, but it's the Canadian fans who make the show. “I’ve never really considered success in America to be a Canadian success," he said. "To me, we had our success story when Canada loved the show from Day 1. That was the Canadian success story for us. I think everything else has been the icing on the cake.”[video_embed id='1786373']RELATED: Eugene Levy shouts out the OG ‘Schitt’s Creek’ fans for the Emmy noms [/video_embed]Speaking of icing, the GLAAD Awards didn’t skimp on the frosting when they invited a star-studded line up of virtual performances, including
Chloe x Halle, who dressed up like the Spice Girls (omg) to perform a remote rendition of “Do It” featuring
RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, Mayhem Miller and Naomi Smalls. Their versions of Scary Spice and Ginger Spice were spot on.The prolific drama
Pose took home the award for
Outstanding Drama Series, and the cast, including Billy Porter, Mj Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson and more spoke about how the groundbreaking show gives Black and Latinx trans and queer people space to be their “own heroes.” Angelica Ross reminded allies that while their show gives a platform to underrepresented communities, voices of support are still crucial to continue the fight for social and political justice.
The recently affianced
Demi Lovato introduced a performance by Shea Diamond by saying, “To all the trans youth, I want to make sure you know that you matter. I know things are crazy hard right now, and you may not have your usual support system around you, but don’t let anyone, especially our government, fool you into thinking you’re anything less than perfect and meant to be.”The virtual awards also featured appearances by the one and only Dolly Parton (who won Outstanding Individual Episode for "Two Doors Down" in her
Heartstrings series),
Lil Nas X (who took home Outstanding Music Artist), Lilly Singh, and
Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union (who thanked their transgender daughter Zaya for "leading us on our journey" of allyship), among others. Check out the
full list of winners here.[video_embed id='2004641']BEFORE YOU GO: Naomi Campbell reacts to Anna Wintour’s note on Vogue’s lack of diversity [/video_embed]
