A great night for the LGBT community at the 2017 Emmys, as San Junipero netted Outstanding Movie, and Charlie Brooker awarded best writing for the Black Mirror episode.
The movie, set in a simulated reality, where elderly people are allowed to recapture their youth for up to 5 hours a week, centres around Yorkie and Kelly (played by MacKenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who meet every week in 1987 and soon fall in love.
Back in reality, Yorkie, who has been in a coma for 40 years, wishes to be euthanised, so her soul can be uploaded to San Junipero permanently. Kelly is not sure what to do, as she is torn between Heaven and being with Yorkie.
The Black Mirror episode has already won the GLAAD Media Award.
Kate McKinnon, the first openly lesbian cast member of SNL, won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Actress in Comedy Series for the second year in a row.
Lena Waithe won Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the Master of None episode 'Thanksgiving'.Waithe, who stars as Denise in the series, based the episode on her own coming out story.
She is the first black woman to be nominated, and to win in this category, and she gave an empowering speech for the LGBT community, saying:
"Every day when you walk out the door and put on your imaginary cape and go out there and conquer the world, because the world would not be as beautiful as it is if we weren't in it. And for everybody out there that showed us so much love for this episode, thank you for embracing a little Indian boy from South Carolina and a queer black girl from the South Side of Chicago."
Star of Orphan Black, and Emmy winner herself , Tatiana
Maslany, wore a pin, an ampersand, in support of GLAADs 'Together Movement.'
The Ampersand declares that you stand with all communities subject to discrimination – including women, Muslims, immigrants, and LGBTQ people.
Other LGBT EMMY nominees on the night included Ellen Page, Samara Wiley, Evan Rachel Wood and Lily Tomlin.
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