Awardees (by year)
Our 2003 Awards
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network SLDN
A national nonprofit legal service, a watchdog and policy organization dedicated to ending discrimination and harassment of military personnel.
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network SLDN
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network SLDN was founded in 1993 as a national nonprofit legal service, a watchdog and policy organization dedicated to ending discrimination and harassment of military personnel affected by Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and related forms of intolerance and homophobia. It played a crucial role in ensuring that the Army did not cover up the murder of PFC Barry Winchell and ensured that his assailants were brought to justice. Each year it helps hundreds of servicemembers. At the time of another potential Gulf War, it is the Monette-Horwitz Trust’s privilege to support American servicemen and women in the performance of their duties and to help shield them from any discrimination or harm that being lesbian, gay, or bisexual might expose them to.
Jennifer DeVere Brody, Ph.D
Associate professor of English, and an early writer in the then nascent field of Black gay and lesbian studies.
Jennifer DeVere Brody, Ph.D
Jennifer DeVere Brody, Ph.D, is associate professor of English, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and was, in the 1980s, an early writer in the then nascent field of Black gay and lesbian studies, along with Dwight McBride, also a Monette-Horwitz award winner. Brody has written on Nella Larsen’s Harlem Renaissance novel, Passing, and is the author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture (Duke, 1998). She is currently working on The Style of Elements: Politically Performing Punctuation, for which she cites Paul Monette as one inspiration, noting “the project is indebted to Monette’s elegant essay, ‘3275’ [from ‘Last Watch of the Night’] where he exclaims, ‘Exquisite, that use of ‘grave’ for ‘engrave,’ as if the action of the stone cutter and the place itself are one.’”
Dwight A. McBride, Ph.D
A pioneer in the field of black gay and lesbian studies.
Dwight A. McBride, Ph.D
Dwight A. McBride, Ph.D, is chair of the Department of African American Studies and associate professor of African American Studies, English, and Communication Studies at Northwestern University. A pioneer in the field of black gay and lesbian studies, his published essays are in the areas of race theory and black queer studies. He is author of Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (2001, NYU Press), a book-length study of abolitionist discourse and the problem of witnessing slavery in Britain and the U.S. He is the editor of James Baldwin Now (1999, NYU Press), co-editor of a special issue of the journal Callaloo titled “Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies” (Winter 2000), and co-editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bi-Sexual African American Fiction (2002 Cleis Press). McBride recently completed a book manuscript (due to be published fall 2004) titled Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality. He is currently at work on two new book manuscripts tentatively titled: Poetics, Politics, and Phillis Wheatley and White Lies in the Republic: Race, Sexuality, and the Law.
Will Roscoe, Ph.D
Adjunct research faculty member who has sought to combat homophobia through both scholarship and activism.
Will Roscoe, Ph.D
Will Roscoe, Ph.D, is an adjunct research faculty member of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California, and is the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning The Zuni Man – Woman (University of New Mexico Press, 1991). For three decades he has sought to combat homophobia through both scholarship and activism. His other works include Queer Spirits: A Gay Men’s Myth Book (Beacon Press, 1995) and the edited work, Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder, by Harry Hay (Beacon Press, 1996). He has also written about homosexuality in the Islamic world and about gender variant people around the globe. His current work is Same–Sex Love and the Mysteries of Heaven, an exploration of queer themes in the history of Western religion.
James M. Saslow, Ph.D
Professor of Art, Queens College, Flushing, New York, author of award winning books on homosexuality.
James M. Saslow, Ph.D
James M. Saslow, Ph.D, is professor of Art, Queens College, Flushing, New York, and the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts (Viking-Penguin, 1999), as well as an early LGBT Studies work, Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society (Yale University Press, 1986). His current work is Queen of Arts, a memoir of personal development and experiences as a journalist, art critic, and historian who came of age in the first quarter–century of the gay / lesbian cultural movement.
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