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Katy Butler To Be Recognized At GLAAD Media Awards (OnTop)

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Katy Butler will be recognized with a special award later this month at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards in New York.

Butler is the 17-year-old Ann Arbor, Michigan teen who is leading the protest against the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) decision to give the documentary film Bully an R rating.

In the documentary, which is being distributed by The Weinstein Company, viewers meet the victims of bullies, including 12-year-old Alex from Sioux City, Iowa and 16-year-old Kelby from Tuttle, Oklahoma. Kelby's ordeal began after she came out gay.

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