Britney Spears thanked the LGBTQ community for its unconditional love in a short, but impassioned, speech that drew a standing ovation at the 2018 GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles Thursday. The pop queen was honored with GLAAD’s Vanguard Award in recognition of her long-standing support of the LGBTQ community. Taking the stage at the Beverly Hilton in a sparkling silver mini dress, Spears thanked her queer fans for “showing me, throughout my career, what it means to be loved unconditionally.”“I feel like our society has always put such an emphasis on what’s ‘normal.’ To be different is unusual or seen as strange,” she told the starry crowd, which included fellow honorees Jim Parsons and Lena Waithe, as well as Olympians Adam Rippon and Gus Kenworthy. “But to be accepted unconditionally and to be able to express yourself as an individual through art is such a blessing.”She then added, “We can all join hands together here and know that we are all beautiful.”View Spears’ full speech in the video below.

Source: Huffington Post April 13, 2018 20:15 UTC