The GLAAD Media Awards Will Honor Wicked Bunny, Christina Aguilera, and Jeremy Pope

The 2023 GLAAD Media Awards have announced the three stars who will possible be receiving particular honors for their contributions to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood this yr: Wicked Bunny, Christina Aguilera, and Jeremy Pope. The trio will possible be honored on the Los Angeles ceremony on March 30.

Wicked Bunny will gain GLAAD’s Leading edge Award in honor of his allyship. The award has previously been presented to the likes of Britney Spears, JAY-Z and Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, and Cher. “Wicked Bunny uses his characteristic as one amongst the arena’s most neatly-liked song artists to boldly shine a light-weight on LGBTQ of us and issues, including transgender equality and ending violence against trans ladies folks of coloration,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis stated in a Feb. 8 press liberate. “By constantly advocating for our neighborhood, elevating our reports and demanding action from anti-LGBTQ leaders, Wicked Bunny redefines the certain impact Latin song artists can have interior the LGBTQ neighborhood, and has spot an instance for all artists.” The reggaetón star has been praised for demanding gender norms and stereotypes and for talking out against violence against the trans neighborhood.

Meanwhile, Aguilera will accumulate GLAAD’s Imply for Commerce Award for her HIV and LGBTQ+ activism. The megastar raised a entire of $500 million for HIV examine in collaboration with MAC Cosmetics in 2004; protested against same-intercourse-marriage ban Proposition 8 in 2008; and additionally primarily based a Pleasure-themed makeup sequence in 2021 in give a increase to of two nonprofits, TransTech and TransLash, to name a couple of of her contributions. In 2022, she done at LA Pleasure, where she gave a heartfelt onstage tribute to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. “My company within the LGBTQ+ neighborhood have helped me in ways that I’m going to never neglect,” she stated. “They’ve allowed me the freedom to be myself and share my deepest, darkest secrets and ideas with them.”

One way or the other, Pope will rob dwelling the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, which honors entertainment consultants who’ve contributed to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood thru their work. Pope has regarded in groundbreaking LGBTQ+ reveals such as “The Inspection” and FX’s “Pose,” among others, and has brought meaningful peculiar storylines to the stage and camouflage camouflage across his occupation.

The 2023 GLAAD Media Awards will air on March 30 in Los Angeles.