We told you earlier that Facebook had won a coveted GLAAD Media Award for its significant, long-term work with and for the LGBT community. We told you that the awards show would be a Cirque du Soleil-meets-Glee-meets-Beverly McClellan, star-studded orgy for the senses.
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Glee’s Diana Agron (pictured above) acted as MC for the evening. Accepting Facebook’s award were Facebookers Andrew Noyes and Sara Sperling, who drove the creation of the Network of Support, a ring of LGBT organizations that consult Facebook on how best to protect and help the queer community within the confines of the social network.
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Also of interest to you webizens, Huffington Post took home a GLAAD Media Award for writer Max J. Rosenthal’s heartwarming post, Adam and Pete: Love in a Time of War, a true story about two men who met at West Point and were married just days after the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. (Side note: HuffPo also took home the blogosphere’s first-ever Pulitzer Prize a couple months ago.)
Without further ado, here are the pics we gathered at Saturday’s star-studded fete:
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