The stunning LGBT coming-of-age drama Moonlight from filmmaker Barry Jenkins, based on a play by openly gay writer Tarell Alvin McCrane rightly walked away with the top prize of Best Drama at the Golden Globes last night cementing an excellent night for diversity in general.  (The movie incidentally is already number 30 in the list of top LGBT movies at the Box Office of all time and is still climbing and has already overtaken ‘Carol’ from last year.)

Out actress Sarah Poulson won for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. She was soon back onstage when the program won the Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, and out executive producer Nina Jacobson accepting the Award thanked her wife from stage.

Benj Pasek the gay half of songwriting partners Pasek & Paul could hardly contain his excitement when the couple won their very first Golden Globe for Best Song for City of Stars in La La Land.  Then later Bryon Howard, the co-director the Best Animated Movie Zootopia made a point of thanking his husband of 27 years.

On a serious side to the evening Meryl Streep accepting her Lifetime Achievement Award used the occasion to make a powerful and impassioned speech to call on the Press to hold the President Elect and his Cabinet accountable for their words and actions. “Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose,” she said. “We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage”.

 

 

On a lighter note as Ryan Gosling made his way to the stage to accept his Best Actor Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, the camera caught Andrew Garfield lip-locked with Ryan Reynolds who had just lost out on winning the award himself.  The sight of these two kissing probably fulfilled more than a few gay men’s fantasy at the same time.