@pinknews: Getting emotjonal over Ayo 🥹After a four-month delay due to the 2023 actors’ strike, the #emmyawards returned in full form featuring stunning red carpet looks, jaw-dropping acceptance speeches, and much-deserved wins for some of the queer community’s brightest stars and most vocal allies. From #jennifercoolidge honouring the underserved community of “Evil Gays” to Niecy Nash-Betts celebrating herself in the most powerful way, the 2024 Emmys was one awards ceremony worth remembering. Here are the 9 queerest moments. #rupaulsdragrace made its historic Emmy success, winning its fifth award for Outstanding Reality Show Competition – the second most-awarded competition show of all time, after only The Amazing Race. Heading on stage surrounded by the cast of season 15 – the season which preceded the latest Emmy win – host RuPaul took aim at the current wave of anti-drag rhetoric sweeping the US and the UK. RuPaul and RuPaul’s Drag Race win big at the Emmy Awards. (Getty Images) “We are so honoured to have this award,” the 63-year-old star began. “You guys are just pure lovely for honouring our show and recognising all these queens. “We have released into the wild hundreds of drag queens, and they’re beautiful. On behalf of all of them, we thank you.” He added: “And listen, if a drag queen wants to read you a story at a library, listen to her. Because knowledge is power. And if someone tries to restrict your access to power, they are trying to scare you.” Earlier this month, RuPaul continued his own historic string of Emmy awards, winning his eighth Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program accolade – the most of any host, ever. He is the most-awarded Black person in Emmy history. Pedro Pascal brought his trans sister Lux as his date The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal, who was nominated for a Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy for his role in the post-apocalyptic HBO series, arrived on the red carpet arm in arm with his trans sister, Lux. Though it’s just a simple declaration of sibling love, his vocal support of his 31-year-old actor and model sister hasn’t gone unnoticed by the trans community. In an interview last year, Pascal said that Lux “is and has always been one of the most powerful people and personalities [he has] ever known,” adding that while his “protective side is lethal,” he actually needs her “more than she needs me”. Niecy Nash-Betts dedicates emmy “unheard” Black and Brown women Actress Niecy Nash-Betts, who is married to queer singer Jessica Betts, delivered an emotional speech as she won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a limited series, for her role as Jeffrey Dahmer’s neighbour Glenda Cleveland in Ryan Murphy’s controversial Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story series. Taking to the stage, the 53-year-old thanked Murphy and co-star Evan Peters, as well as her wife, who she said “picked me up when I was gutted from this work”. Nash-Betts then thanked and celebrated herself “for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do.” She joyfully added: “Go on, girl, with your bad self. You did that!'” The most poignant moment in the speech came when Nash-Betts took a moment to accept the award “on behalf of every Black and Brown woman who has gone unheard yet over-policed, like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor. “As an artist, my job is to speak truth to power, and baby, I’m going to do it until the day I die.” The other big Drag Race talking point at last night’s ceremony came in the form of a mysterious green goblin parading about the red carpet, terrorising cameras and leaving viewers baffled. It was revealed that Drag Race season 15 queen Princess Poppy, who was eliminated in week two in last year’s season, was behind the creepy, campy look that left the internet ablaze. Though Princess Poppy previously announced that she’d retired from drag, her chaotic goblin get up was certainly one way to come back with a bang.

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