Charlize Theron Wins Gay Vanguard Award

Charlize Theron got top props from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance for playing a lesbian in a movie and being slightly nutty.

Charlize Theron was honored with a top prize Saturday from the country’s leading gay organization that monitors the media. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation presented its Vanguard Award to Theron at the 17th annual GLAAD Media Awards for increasing “visibility and understanding in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.”

“This is very surreal for me because two years ago, I stood right here and won my Oscar for ‘Monster,’” Theron said in ceremonies at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Her portrayal of lesbian serial killer Aileen Wuornos in “Monster” won her the 2003 Academy Award for best actress.

Last year, Theron told TV’s “Extra” that she and her partner, Stuart Townsend, would not wed until gay and lesbian couples attained the legal right to marry. “I feel so fortunate that I am in a relationship with a wonderful man,” Theron said Saturday night. “I find it incredibly unfair that because of our sexual preference, we have the rights that we have, and that, because of someone else’s sexual preference, they don’t have those same rights.”

Well, technically, they have the same rights to marry people of the opposite sex that Cheron has. I don’t enjoy eating stinky cheese but have the same right to do so as people who are so inclined.

And, while I suppose her decision not to marry Townsend until gays are allowed to marry is principled in an odd way, it strikes me as a rather silly gesture. Are there legislators out there who are on the fence and thinking, “I’m not sure about those homos but, damn it, Charlize Theron should be married!”

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Charlize Theron Wins Gay Vanguard Award

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