EXCLUSIVE: Actor, writer, director and producer Dan Levy will be honored by GLAAD with the Davidson/Valentini Award at the 2019 GLAAD Gala in San Francisco. Named after GLAAD’s first executiv…
media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting acceptance for the LGBTQ community. The event will take place September 28 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco and will be hosted byLevy, who identifies as a gay man, co-createdwith his father Eugene Levy. He also serves as showrunner, executive producer, writer and stars as David Rose, one of the first openly pansexual characters depicted on television.
comedy was recently nominated for four Emmys including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress for Catherine O’Hara and Outstanding Lead Actor for Eugene Levy.has been nominated and garnered for numerous awards. The series was nominated for a 2019 TCA Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy and a 2019 Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Best Comedy Series.
“Through his work on-screen and behind the scenes of Schitt’s Creek, Dan Levy moves LGBTQ visibility on television forward in humorous, compelling, and necessary ways,” says Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “By featuring and celebrating a pansexual character, Dan and Schitt’s Creek are expandingof the spectrum of idenities within the LGBTQ community in a way that other content creators should model.
This isn’t the first time Levy has been honored as a trailblazer in the LGBTQ community. In 2015, he was included in the OUT 100 list. In 2017, Levy called out areporter for using “offensive, irresponsible, and homophobic” language to describe him. He created an online fundraiser called “Fight For Our Future,” which helped “continue to fight for the rights of LGBTQ people everywhere.
Levy is in good company as a Davidson/Valentini Award honoree. Previous award recipients include Ross Mathews, Don Lemon, Lee Daniels, Adam Lambert, Hannah Hart, Sandra Bernhard, Alec Mapa, Tyler Oakley, B.D. Wong, and Ilene Chaiken, among others.
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