Awardees (by year)
Our 2000 Awards

Gregory Herek, Ph.D
Internationally recognized authority on prejudice against lesbians and gay men, hate crimes and anti-gay violence.
Gregory Herek, Ph.D
Gregory Herek, Ph.D is professor of psychology, University of California, Davis (UCD). Herek is an internationally recognized authority on prejudice against lesbians and gay men, hate crimes and anti-gay violence, and AIDS-related stigma. He has published numerous scholarly articles on these topics. In 1992 he co-edited Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men (Sage Publications, with Kevin Berrill.) https://psychology.ucdavis.edu/people/gregory-herek

James Naylor Green, Ph.D
Author of book ‘Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil.’
James Naylor Green, Ph.D
James Naylor Green, Ph.D, is an associate professor of Latin American history at California State University, Long Beach and the President of the Brazilian Studies Association. His book Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1999. A Portuguese language version came out in Brazil in 2000. He is currently completing a book entitled More Love and More Desire: A History of the Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, and Transgendered Movement. https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jngreen

Robin Podolsky
Independent writer and lecturer whose work has appeared in LA Weekly as well as LGBT community publications.
Robin Podolsky
Robin Podolsky is an independent writer and lecturer whose work has appeared in LA Weekly as well as LGBT community publications. She is currently writing Queer Cosmopolis, to be published by New York University Press. She lives in Los Angeles. https://jewishjournal.com/author/robinp/ [f]

Yolanda Retter, Ph.D
Performed numerous LGBT community services and winner of the Lambda Literary Award.
Yolanda Retter
Yolanda Retter, Ph.D, 1947-2007 performed numerous LGBT community services and won the Lambda Literary Award for Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance (Bay Press, 1997). Retter’s 1999 dissertation was titled On the Side of the Angels: Lesbian Activism in Los Angeles 1970–1990. Retter manages the Lesbian Legacy Collection at ONE Institute and Archives, Los Angeles. https://www.yesterqueers.com/videos/yolanda-retter-vargas
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