{"id":994432,"date":"2022-02-17T06:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/mj-rodriguez-to-be-honored-at-glaad-media-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T06:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:03:20","slug":"mj-rodriguez-to-be-honored-at-glaad-media-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/mj-rodriguez-to-be-honored-at-glaad-media-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ Rodriguez to be honored at GLAAD Media Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\" onclick=\"st_ss_sh1();\">\n<p>1\/5<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"975\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MJ-Rodriguez-to-be-honored-at-GLAAD-Media-Awards.jpg\" title=\"MJ Rodriguez to be honored at GLAAD Media Awards\" alt=\"MJ Rodriguez to be honored at GLAAD Media Awards\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stph_caption\">Mj Rodriguez arrives for the 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 22, 2019. She will be the recipient of\u00a0the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the GLADD Media Awards. File Photo by Christine Chew\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> MJ Rodriguez is set to be honored with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the 33rd annual GLAAD Media Awards on April 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Stephen F. Kolzak Award <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glaad\/status\/1493963548275482632\">is presented<\/a> to LGBTQ media professionals who have made a difference in promoting LGBTQ acceptance. Kolzak was a casting director who raised awareness about discrimination faced by the LGBTQ community and those living with HIV.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Previous recipients include Laverne Cox, Jim Parsons, Wanda Sykes, Troye Sivan, Ruby Rose, Chaz Bono, Stephen Warren, Melissa Etheridge and Ian McKellen.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, full name Michaela Ja\u00e9 Rodriguez, is an award-winning actress, singer and activist who is best known for starring as Blanca in <i>Pose<\/i>. She also recently starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda&#8217;s <i>tick, tick&#8230;BOOM! <\/i>and will next be seen in Apple&#8217;s <i>Loot<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;<\/i>Michaela Ja\u00e9 Rodriguez is an undeniable talent who is changing the way audiences understand trans people while breaking down barriers for the trans community and LGBTQ people of color within the entertainment industry,&#8221; GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her performance as Blanca on <i>Pose<\/i> was one of the most powerful and impactful roles in the history of LGBTQ representation on television, and she continues to spearhead the future of trans visibility and inclusion in entertainment through her talent on screen, in music and as a passionate activist,&#8221; Ellis continued.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/5 Mj Rodriguez arrives for the 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 22, 2019. She will be the recipient of\u00a0the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the GLADD Media Awards. File Photo by Christine Chew\/UPI | License Photo Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212; MJ Rodriguez is set to be honored with the Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}