Jane Lynch may get a lot of praise for playing Sue Sylvester in TV’s Glee, but now she’s getting an honour of a different kind from the National Center for Lesbian Rights in the US, who are giving her its Vanguard Award.
One of seven awards NCLR are giving out this year, they decided to honour Lynch as, “The Vanguard Award honors an individual whose life and spirit exemplifies NCLR’s vision and values of equality and justice for all.
“This year’s award goes to famed actress Jane Lynch, of ‘Glee’ and ‘Julie & Julia’, who has lived an authentic life as an out lesbian while simultaneously achieving great success and visibility in television and film.
“Her authenticity and integrity are blazing a path not just for the artists who follow in her footsteps, but for young people everywhere who look up to her. She lives her life with openness to the unexpected, and by doing so met her soul-mate and became a parent long past the time she thought she ever would.”
Lynch married Lara Embry in 2012, but their marriage has been in jeopardy due to the uncertainty over gay marriage in California. It was briefly legal in the state, but was banned again after voters passed Prop 8. Whether that ban is legal has been going through the courts ever since.
She also recently announced she’d be starring alongside George Clooney in a one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black’s play about the court case surrounding Prop 8.
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