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Apr 09, 2021 1 min, 27 secs

The streaming giant Netflix came out on top with three wins: Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of "The Boys in the Band" won the award for Outstanding Film-Limited Release; "Disclosure," about Hollywood's depiction of transgender people, won the Outstanding Documentary award; and "She-Ra & The Princesses of Power" tied Hulu's "First Day" in the Outstanding Kids & Family Programming category.

The LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD has held the annual event for more than three decades to honor fair, accurate and inclusive representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in media.

In addition to celebrating the winners, the ceremony highlighted pressing issues affecting the LGBTQ community, such as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, HIV awareness and the epidemic of violence against transgender women of color.

Teen YouTube sensation JoJo Siwa, who made headlines this year after revealing that she is gay, sent a special message to LGBTQ youths before presenting the "Sesame Street" puppet Elmo with the award for Outstanding Children's Programming.

In its annual "Where We Are on TV" report this year, GLAAD found that LGBTQ visibility has declined by 33 percent on cable, 13 percent on streaming services and a little over 1 percent on network television in the current TV season.

Even though overall LGBTQ representation was down, the racial diversity of queer characters was up: For the first time in the report's history, there were more LGBTQ people of color than white LGBTQ characters on screen, with people of color making up 53 percent of regular and recurring LGBTQ characters on broadcast series, 52 percent on cable shows and 47 percent on streaming platform originals

The full list of GLAAD Media Award winners can be found on the organization's website, and the ceremony can be viewed on demand on Hulu through June

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