Judith Light Honoured With Award For LGBT+ and HIV/AIDS Activism
Actress Judith Light will be honoured with the Isabelle Stevenson Award for her decades of activism with the LGBT+ community and her support in the fight against HIV and AIDS, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
The Isabelle Stevenson Award is a special humanitarian Tony Award that recognises members of the theatre community for their advocacy work.
Light has been involved in many LGBT+ charities throughout her career, including GLAAD and the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights group. She was one of the first celebrities to speak out during the AIDS crisis and raise money to fight it. She is also on the boards of both the Matthew Shepard Foundation and the LGBT+ scholarship organisation, the Point Foundation.
“To be so generously acknowledged by The American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League and the Tony Awards, and to be included with these outstanding individuals who have received this honor before me, has been one of the most extraordinary gifts I have ever received in my life,” Light said in a statement.
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