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Announcements:
Our Heartfelt Gratitude!
The MoHo extends its heartfelt gratitude to our Advisory Committee member extraordinaire, CHRIS FREEMAN, who after twenty years of service is stepping down to pursue retirement and life abroad with his family. THANK YOU, Chris, and best of luck to you!
MoHo is pleased to announce our 2026 Awardees.
We honor them for their important work in fighting homophobia and working to improve the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ people in the United States and worldwide. Join us in celebrating our Awardees for 2026.
Our 2026 Awardees
ACT-UP LA Oral History Project
Documenting early members of ACT-UP LA
ACT-UP LA Oral History Project
ACT-UP Los Angeles Oral History Project in a not-for-profit grassroots organization with a mission to film, record and document the stories of early Angeleno ACT-UP members. This bank of archives is intended to preserve the heroic efforts of women and men, gay and straight, who valiantly fought against the homophobic systems in American healthcare at that time. Thanks to the folks at ACT-UP LA Oral History Project, these heroes will not be forgotten.
actupla.org
Authentically Plastic, Turkana, and Nsasi
Queer artists combatting homophobia in Uganda
Anti-Mass Collective
The Anti-Mass Collective in Uganda was co-founded by three queer artists: DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist Authentically Plastic, artist Turkana, and DJ and producer Nsasi. For fear of reprisal, they will be recognized here by their artist names only. This award honors their courageous and vital work to combat homophobia under extremely difficult conditions currently in Uganda. Through their music and community practice, Anti-Mass has created and defended pop-up spaces for queer expression, visibility, and community building.
Campaign for Southern Equality
Non-profit serving the queer South
Campaign for Southern Equality
The Campaign for Southern Equality is working to build a South where LGBTQ+ people are equal in every part of life. They provide services for trans-youth, and programs in community health, legal equity, healing and resilience, research, and in schools. CSE is a non-profit serving the queer South since 2011.
southernequality.org
The Pellagatti Family
Ally Award 2026
Ally Award
The Pellagatti Family
The MoHo is proud to bestow our Ally Award 2026 to the Pellagatti family of New Jersey. In their valiant efforts to re-open the unsolved murder case of their trans-sister Venus Pellagatti Xtravaganza, they teamed up with the queer and trans folk of the House of Xtravaganza, as documented in the recent film I’m Your Venus. Venus had starred in the award winning documentary Paris Is Burning before her murder. Together, the House of Xtravaganza, the Pellagatti’s, lawyers and others were able to make history by re-gendering Venus’s birth certificate posthumously, changing her tombstone, achieving historic recognition, and most importantly, showing the world that cisgender people can work together with transgender people to create a more loving world.