Women's Event 11...

Hi friends and readers of LesPlanet, as we commented in a post earlier this weekend has been held fund-raising annual Women's Event 11 at Chelsea Piers, which this year has honored Ilene Chaiken, writer, creator and producer Executive Series L Word (as all we know ...), Stephanie Gibbons, executive vice president of Marketing and On-Air Promotions, FX, and finally to Lisa Sherman, executive vice president and general manager of Logo.

Also attended a couple of Rossi Kelli O'Donnell, the spokesman for the city of New York Christine Quinn, and hetero allies such as MTV, and CEO Judy McGrath ...

During the dinner, there was a live auction of spot for the promotion of L Word with Pam Grier, Daniela Sea Rose Rollins and there to go climbing tenders ... and a lot of speeches.

When Jennifer Beals presented to Ilene, she made an emotional and brilliant speech on gay rights and as expected the day of tomorrow will reach a point where you can ask her daughter "is that there was a time when the gay people are not allowed to be married? "(was moved almost to tears when he said this sentence ....), and received a dream ovation from the audience.

At the awards ceremony, Ilene talking about when she thought that would have ended other L Word on TV shows where they would normally see a cop lesbian, lesbian comedy of mess ... and now realized that it was more difficult lesbian visibility on television when it started L Word, and that was really depressing ...

Next week, more specifically on 09 November will be held in Los Angeles on POWER UP's Annual continue to raise funds for the cause ...

Source: Afterellen.com

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