Janelle Monáe to be honored at Outfest Legacy Awards as trailblazer

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Janelle Monáe will receive the Trailblazer Award at the Outfest Legacy Awards this month. Photo: Jheyda Mcgarrell Janelle Monáe will receive the Trailblazer Award at the Outfest Legacy Awards this month.

In honoring Monáe, 36, the Trailblazer Award will recognize her role “as an artist who has consistently shown their support for the LGBTQ+ community at large through music and acting,” according to a press release on the award. “The Outfest Legacy Awards has become one of entertainment’s most respected and meaningful industry events that spotlight the artists, leadership and organizations that have significantly contributed to queer representation and advocacy across media, arts and entertainment,” Outfest’s executive director Damien S.

Navarro said in a press release. “We invite the world to join us in lifting up our awardees who have collectively inspired a new generation of creators, storytellers, and audiences – carving a path for tomorrow’s artists,” he said.

In 2016, Monáe made her theatrical film debut in two high-profile productions. She starred in “Hidden Figures” as NASA mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson, and also starred in “Moonlight.” “Hidden Figures” was a box office success. “Moonlight” won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 89th annual ceremony.  Monáe’s next film will be “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” with Daniel Craig, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, and Leslie Odom Jr.