Excellence in Opinion/Editorial First Place: Aaron Stella, Philadelphia Gay News Second Place: Sean Bugg, Metro Weekly
Awards
“30 Years of AIDS: Profiles,” CNN – 2012 Winner
Excellence in HIV/AIDS Coverage First Place: CNN, “30 Years of AIDS: Profiles” – Writer/Producers: Elizabeth Landau and Madison Park, Second Place: CNN, Sanjay Gupta MD: AIDS Turns 30 – Correspondent: Dr. Sanjay Gupta – Senior Executive Producer: Roni Selig –...
“Jake Nash: Speaking for the Transgender Community” by Simon Husted – 2012 Winner
Excellence in Student Journalism First Place: Simon Husted, Fusion (Kent State), “Jake Nash: Speaking for the Transgender Community”
“Becoming Kate” by Cary Aspinwall – 2012 Winner
Excellence in Feature First Place: Cary Aspinwall, Tulsa World, “Becoming Kate” Second Place: June Thomas, Slate, “The Gay Bar” Third Place: Karina Bland, Arizona Republic, “2 Gay Dads, 12 Happy Kids”
“DOJ Stops Defending DOMA” by Chris Geidner – 2012 Winner
Excellence in News First Place: Chris Geidner, Metro Weekly, DOJ Stops Defending DOMA Second Place: Brett Zongker, Associated Press, Coverage of the National Portrait Gallery’s first show on history of LGBT art Third Place: Jen Colletta, Philadelphia Gay News,...
Chris Geidner – 2012 Winner
Sarah Pettit LGBT Journalist of the Year Winner: Chris Geidner – Metro Weekly This year’s Sarah Pettit LGBT Journalist of the Year Award goes to Chris Geidner, former senior political editor at Metro Weekly, and now senior political reporter at BuzzFeed. Geidner has...
Steven W. Thrasher – 2012 Winner
Journalist of the Year Winner: Steven W. Thrasher – Village Voice, New York Times, Out The NLGJA 2012 Journalist of the Year is Steven W. Thrasher, a staff writer for the Village Voice and writer for the New York Times and Out. Whether it is about multigenerational...
Michelangelo Signorile
Michelangelo Signorile hosts his eponymous radio show on Sirius XM Radio's OutQ channel (SiriusXM 108) weekdays 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. EDT. On satellite radio, streamed on the Internet and to Android, BlackBerry and iOS handheld devices, his show is available to 20+ million...
Don Michaels
In 1976, Don Michaels was in Buffalo, where he was Mattachine Society president and a self-described “full-time gay activist” managing a gay community center and editing a small gay newsletter, when he and his partner, John Yanson, decided to move to Washington, D.C....
William Dorr Lambert Legg
William Dorr Lambert Legg (1904—July 26, 1994), was trained as a landscape architect at the University of Michigan, then was a landscape architecture professor at what is now Oregon State University by 1935. In the 1940s, he moved back to Michigan to care for his...