Awardees 2018

History UnErased

The mission of History UnErased is to bring LGBTQ history into all classrooms to create a more just and harmonious world. Most of us grew up in public or private schools that taught us nothing about queer history, a silence that denies a heritage of robust contributions to society. From poets to conquerors, farmers to astronauts, inventors to artists, queer people have been, and are, everywhere. History UnErased has created and offers supplemental educational programs for K-12 students to explore and learn about LGBTQ history. The destruction of ignorance through education has proven to be a central pathway toward eradicating homophobia.   https://www.unerased.org/

Out for Health

Out for Health, a division of Planned Parenthood, is a community-based online hub of information for LGBTQ people. This hub connects a variety of erotic and gender minority peoples with a variety of health care information and sources. They also educate people about access to health care, assistance with costs, and their rights regarding treatment and care.   www.outforhealth.org

Rainbow Street

Rainbow Street is a non-profit international non-government organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ people living in the Arab worlds of the Middle East and North Africa. Rainbow Street works with local activists and partner organizations to provide basic necessities of life, migration services, and community support to LGBTQ people facing extreme discrimination and oppression. Short term aid, long term solutions.

Tergo

Tergo is a grassroots organization in the Ukraine helping to educate the public, and specifically families and friends of gay Ukrainians. Much like the American group PFLAG (MoHo Ally Award 2005), Tergo provides information and community support to potential heterosexual allies of the LGBT people of Ukraine.

Justin Trudeau

The Monette-Horwitz Trust is pleased and honored to announce Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as this year’s deserving recipient of our Ally Award. Making history on November 28, 2017, PM Trudeau made a formal and heartfelt apology to LGBTQ2 people of Canada for all of the wrongdoings and crimes perpetrated by the Canadian government against queer people. Perhaps for the first time in world history the leader of a country apologized publicly for the past persecution, discrimination, and wrongful incarceration of innocent Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Two Spirit people. Thank you, Justin, for setting an example of how leaders of the free world can be. In his honor, donations have been made to two Canadian groups: TwoSpirited People of Manitoba, Inc., and 2-Spirited People of the First Nations, Toronto

Justin Trudeau’s Full Apology to LGBQ2T.