Awards

Lila Shapiro – 2013 Winner

Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for the LGBT Journalist of the Year First: Lila Shapiro, The Huffington Post This year's Sarah Pettit LGBT Journalist of the Year Award goes to Lila Shapiro, a staff reporter at The Huffington Post. A judge praised her: “Shapiro shows a...

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Michael Luongo – 2013 Winner

Journalist of the Year First: Michael Luongo, Freelance The NLGJA 2013 Journalist of the Year is Michael Luongo, a freelance journalist, editor and photographer and New York University adjunct professor who teaches travel writing. His work has appeared in The New York...

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Michel Martin

Michel Martin was the recipient of the 2012 Randy Shilts Award for LGBTQ Coverage. The host of “Tell Me More,” Martin has consistently lived up to her program’s title with her coverage of the LGBTQ community, going beyond the headlines to ask deeper questions – from...

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Randy Wicker

Charles Gervin Hayden Jr., who in 1967 legally changed his name to his then-pseudonym Randolfe Hayden Wicker, was born February 3, 1938, in Plainfield, New Jersey. He discovered the homophile movement as a University of Texas at Austin undergraduate, and he spent the...

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Jill Johnston

Jill Johnston was born in London, England on May 17, 1929, and was raised in Little Neck, New York. She attended college in Massachusetts and Minnesota, then earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina. In 1958, she married Richard John Lanham, whom she...

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“AIDS at 30,” Scott Schafer – 2012 Winner

Excellence in Radio First Place: California Report for KQED, “AIDS at 30” – Host/Reporter: Scott Shafer Second Place: SiriusXM OutQ News, “Live Coverage: Gay Marriage in New York” – Anchor/Producer: Xorje Olivares Third Place: State of the Re:Union, “Laramie After...

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