Awardees (by year)
Our 2004 Awards
Soulforce, Inc.
An interfaith, ecumenical movement committed to ending spiritual violence perpetrated by religious policies and teachings against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons.
Soulforce, Inc.
Soulforce, Inc., Lynchburg, Virginia (Chuck Phelan, Board Chair) is an interfaith, ecumenical movement committed to ending spiritual violence perpetrated by religious policies and teachings against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons and was founded in 1998 by Mel White. Accomplishments are listed at www.SoulForce.org and include nonviolent direct actions and acts of civil disobedience targeting the unjust policies and teachings of the Southern Baptist, Roman Catholic, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Episcopal churches, as well as prominent televangelists including Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and James Dobson. Soulforce has used email and web workshops and seminars in universities, churches, and synagogues to train thousands of volunteers in the principles of relentless nonviolent resistance. Soulforce has produced 5 videos and over 20,000 copies have been requested and distributed to local PFLAG chapters, churches and synagogues, public libraries, LGBT community centers, and cable television stations. In the last two years, Soulforce has licensed two dozen Local Soulforce Groups in key cities in twenty-four different states. www.SoulForce.org
Arthur Dong
Producer, director, writer, editor, and cinematographer of numerous LGBT themed documentaries.
Arthur Dong
Arthur Dong is a producer, director, writer, editor, and cinematographer of numerous LGBT themed documentaries, including Family Fundamentals (2003), which profiles religiously conservative Christian families with gay children, Licensed to Kill (1997), which investigates the stories of seven convicted killers who have murdered homosexuals, and Coming Out Under Fire (1994), which examines the World War II origins of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that labeled homosexual soldiers as sex perverts and discharged them as mentally ill. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a George Foster Peabody award, a Guggenheim Fellowship in filmmaking, and nominations for both Emmy’s and an Academy Award. He lives in Los Angeles. www.DeepFocusProductions.com
OASIS
A Los Angeles Unified School District continuation high school program begun in 1996 which offers gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students a chance to excel academically and become vital, respected members of the community.
OASIS
OASIS is a Los Angeles Unified School District continuation high school program begun in 1996 which offers gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students a chance to excel academically and become vital, respected members of the community. OASIS (Out Adolescents Staying In School) has been the catalyst for a turnaround in truancy, failing grades, missing credits, and dropping out. OASIS uses a holistic, interdisciplinary curriculum to create solid critical thinkers and stimulate the abilities of gifted youth to raise self esteem and prepare students for graduation. OASIS students and staff have been interviewed for public television programs and by the press and former students have become community newspaper columnists and have worked as local politics interns.
Arlene Raven, Ph.D
An art historian for over thirty years and was among the first to study and acknowledge female, lesbian, and gay artists beginning in the late 1960s.
Arlene Raven, Ph.D
Arlene Raven, Ph.D, 1944-2006, was an art historian for over thirty years and was among the first to study and acknowledge female, lesbian, and gay artists beginning in the late 1960s. Raven participated in the first presentation of scholarly papers on homosexuality and the arts at the 1977 College Art Association meeting in Los Angeles and originated the Lesbian Art Project in 1977. Raven was also a founder of the Women’s Caucus for Art, the Feminist Studio Workshop, The Los Angeles Woman’s Building, and “Chrysalis” magazine. Her honors and awards include grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and she was the 2002 recipient of the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism. Her seven books include Crossing Over: Feminism and Art of Social Concern (1988), New Feminist Criticism (1993), and June Wayne: Tunnel of the Senses (1997).
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