Photo: Daniel Radcliffe. (WireImage)
While one actor busies himself backpedaling after a pitiful homophobic tirade (*cough*tracymorgan*cough*), another is humbly accepting a tip o' the hat from LGBT youth support hot line, The Trevor Project. Congratulations to Daniel Radcliffe for reaching hero status!
The "Harry Potter" star, 22, will accept his Trevor Hero Award next Monday at Trevor Live, a night of fundraising and debauchery in New York City. (Part one of the organization's money and awareness-raising run will take place the night before at Sunday's "Style Your Life, Live Your Style" fashion party.) Radcliffe has been active with the organization for a couple of years now, lending his famous face and voice to one of the most high-stakes causes of our time: putting an end to teen bullying targeting LGBT youth.
"The fact that they think what I've done by promoting awareness to the Trevor Project itself and the issues that it works to promote and help is a great honor," he said, via Look to the Stars. Then, turning credit back to where he says credit is most definitely due, Daniel adds, "The people that are doing the heroic things are the people answering phones 24 hours a day in the Trevor call centers."
The Trevor Project provides resources and care in an effort to combat suicide rates affecting the LGBT youth community--because how we treat one another makes all the difference.
For the record: Tracy Morgan's attempts to overwrite his really, really bad "jokes" are feeling more and more like sincere efforts at repentance. He met with GLAAD representatives and kids at New York's Ali Forney Center, then took his butt down to Nashville where it all started and gave his apologies there. Maybe Daniel Radcliffe can inspire him to keep fighting the good fight as a way of life.
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