Awardees (by year)
Our 2010 Awards
Leslie Feinberg
A transgender warrior and longtime activist on behalf of workers, women, and transpeople.
Leslie Feinberg
1949-2014 was a transgender warrior. A longtime activist on behalf of workers, women, and transpeople, Feinberg is perhaps best known for the Lambda Award-winning novel Stone Butch Blues (1993), a classic novel in modern queer literature. In 1996, Feinberg published one of the first studies of trans oppression, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, and in 2006, Feinberg published a second novel, Drag King Dreams. A peace activist and a believer in grassroots organizing, Feinberg’s adult life has been dedicated to telling the stories of transfolk and to fighting for the rights and livelihood of queers everywhere. www.transgenderwarrior.org
Impact Stories
An ongoing oral history project of gay California.
Impact Stories
The brainchild of Glenne McElhinney, a lifelong grass-roots activist. During her youth in San Francisco, Glenne fought Prop 6 and Briggs. Upon seeing the documentary Paragraph 175, (the story of gays persecuted by the Nazis), Glenne decided that she would get involved in documentary filmmaking— to tell the stories of queer people. Her work at Impact Stories is an ongoing oral history project of gay California. The first product of Impact Stories is the moving, inspiring film On These Shoulders We Stand, which tells some of the history of Gay Los Angeles. Next up is Tales of California. Impact Stories is based on the stark reality that stories which are not recorded are lost—and that too much of our history has been untold for too long. www.impactstories.org
Iraqi LGBT
Human Rights group which supports gay activists in Iraq, assisting their efforts to help other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Iraqis facing death and persecution by the police and militia squads.
Iraqi LGBT
This Human Rights group supports gay activists in Iraq, assisting their efforts to help other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Iraqis facing death and persecution by the police and militia squads. Aside from raising awareness about the wave of homophobic murders in Iraq to the outside world, Iraqi LGBT also aids targeted individuals seeking refuge in the safer parts of Iraq (with housing, food, electricity, medical help) and in neighboring countries. www.iraqilgbtuk.blogspot.com [f]
Rev. Eric P. Lee
A leading black advocate for same-sex marriage in the battle over California’s Proposition 8.
Rev. Eric P. Lee
President of the Los Angeles chapter of Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 2008, took center stage as a leading black advocate for same-sex marriage in the battle over California’s Proposition 8. His courageous stance brought him under fire with many of his peers in the faith community and some in the broader African-American community. Even when the national SCLC threatened to strip the Los Angeles chapter of its charter, Rev. Lee refused to back down, insisting that “any time you deny one group of people the same right that other groups have, that is a clear violation of civil rights and I have to speak up on that.” http://www.sclc-sc.org/
Naz Foundation
The largest AIDS healthcare NGO in India, located in the capitol New Delhi, providing a variety of services (healthcare, education, outreach, home support).
Naz Foundation
Naz Foundation is the largest AIDS healthcare NGO in India, located in the capitol New Delhi, providing a variety of services (healthcare, education, outreach, home support), and founded in 1994 by Anjali Gopalan. In addition to their public advocacy and promotion of sexual health, Naz India strategically assisted a team of lawyers in an eight year court battle to decriminalize homosexual acts, the infamous Section 377, implemented by the British colonialists. Along with others, Naz India is a courageous and triumphant spirit of freedom, collaborating in the eradication of the suffering of GLBT and HIV+ people. http://www.nazindia.org/ [f]
RFD and White Crane Journal
America’s two oldest reader-written-and-produced quarterlies celebrating queer diversity.
RFD and White Crane Journal
RFD and White Crane Journal are America’s two oldest reader-written-and-produced quarterlies celebrating queer diversity. Featuring personal essays, photography and poetry with alternative viewpoints not found in the mainstream press, these sister publications not only share recent significant anniversaries (35 years and 20 years, respectively) but a grassroots tribe of faithful and involved readers. Unique, passionate and always lively, RFD and White Crane magazines uphold the basic tenets of gay liberation for future generations. www.gaywisdom.org and www.rfdmag.org [f]
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