Lily, Jane and Miley come out for the gays!

Jane was honored at the 46th Anniversary Gala Vanguard Awards for LA’s LGBT Center.  This swanky soirée was attended by well over 1,200 – most of whom paid upwards of $1K.  And then there’s me – since I was there to write about it, I was shoved into an empty seat.  On my right was Greg Hernandez from GregInHollywood.com – a site I check out regularly.  Every day he writes about things I enjoy reading, but clearly would not fit within the confines of a weekly column.  We kibitzed while Lily Tomlin paid tribute to her buddy Jane Fonda, whom she called a “vagina warrior”!  This presentation took place shortly after we sat down and while they were serving the salad.  Turns out, Jane had to be out at 9PM.  Better people, or a plane to Paris to catch – I heard both stories.  Lily stayed till the bitter end.  Along the way, Linda Perry sang and auctioned off an autographed piano for the second year in a row.  Miley Cyrus helped out by licking the piano until someone bid $50K.  I don’t know who I was more concerned for – Miley, who could get a splinter, or the next piano player, who could get syphilis!  But she got her bid, and the winner got a prescription for Cipro!

Then Miley talked about the Center.  She’s visited it.  She’s met with the youth.  She seems to really connect with them because, let’s face it, without Hannah Montana, she could have ended up sleeping under an overpass (which is apparently where the well-off homeless live).  She appeared completely committed to the cause and moved by the work the Center does.  And she vowed to stay involved – even begging to be invited back next year (which, I trust, is not a problem).  Once she wrapped up her rambling speech, I grabbed a couple of peach cobblers and left.

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