Excellence in Opinion/Editorial First: Tracy Baim for “The Content of Our Character: Trayvon and Us” Second: Gail Shister for “Is Your Husband Gay?” Third: Steve Friess for “My Turn as a Target of ‘God Hates Fags’ Preacher Fred Phelps”
Excellence in Feature First: Gabriel Arana for “Soldier without a War” Second: Melissa Griffiths for “LGBTQ in the Capital” (series) Third: Beth Schwartzapfel for “Little Boxes”
Excellence in News First: Timothy Cwiek for coverage of Nizah Morris case Second: Beth Hawkins “Same-sex marriage, Minnesota and the Supreme Court: an FAQ for the befuddled”
Excellence in HIV/AIDS Coverage First: David France for “How to Survive a Plague” Second: Steve Blanchard for “Chasing the Bug”
Excellence in Blogging First: Mark King for “My Fabulous Disease”
Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for the LGBT Journalist of the Year Lila Shapiro This year's Sarah Pettit LGBT Journalist of the Year Award goes to Lila Shapiro, reporter for the Huffington Post. This is the second year in a row Shapiro has won this award. A judge...
Journalist of the Year Chris Geidner The 2014 NLGJA Journalist of the Year is Chris Geidner, senior legal and political reporter for BuzzFeed. “Geidner wrote pieces that soared above policy and law, bringing us Edie and Thea, and how their story wove into a...
Judy Woodruff was the recipient of the 2013 NLGJA Randy Shilts Award for LGBTQ Coverage. Woodruff is co-anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour. During her more than 30 year journalism career with PBS, CNN and NBC, Woodruff has covered LGBTQ issues in a fair and...
Mark Allan Segal, born in 1953, founded Philadelphia Gay News as a monthly in 1976, after being inspired by Frank Kameny when they met in 1970. Segal has been publisher of the now-weekly newspaper ever since. Today, PGN, as it’s often known, is one of the two oldest...
Bob Ross (1934-2003), along with Paul Bentley, founded San Francisco’s Bay Area Reporter on April 1, 1971. Bentley sold his interest in 1975. Ross set the highest professional standards for the newspaper and, by 1979, Mayor Dianne Feinstein was asking Ross and San...