Excellence in News First Place Presented to "There is a Gay Agenda: Winning Elections," Kerry Eleveld, Salon.com Second Place Presented to "From John to Julia," Steven Hepker, Jackson Citizen Patriot Third Place Presented to "A Secret Life," Evan Thomas & Team,...
Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media First Place Presented to Ryan Lee, Southern Voice Ryan Lee of the Southern Voice newspaper has been selected by NLGJA to be honored with the Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media. Named for...
Journalist of the Year The NLGJA Journalist of the Year award recognizes the outstanding professional achievements of an LGBT journalist who is a member of NLGJA. This year, NLGJA will present that honor to James Kirchick. Kirchick's work was previously honored by the...
Washington, D.C. native Jack Nichols helped found a Mattachine Society chapter in the city in 1961. In 1965, the same year he founded the Society’s Florida chapter and organized the first gay rights protest at the White House, Nichols and his partner Lige Clarke began...
At the time of Barbara Gittings’ death, she and Kay Tobin Lahusen had been together 46 years. Best known for their revolutionary work with the Daughter of Bilitis’s publication, The Ladder, the two were true pioneers of the LGBT movement. Gittings became The Ladder’s...
Jim Kepner began writing extensively for ONE Magazine under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms in April 1954. With assistance from others nationwide, he documented the 1950s witch hunts, exposing the police and liquor control tactics that targeted gay people and...
Excellence in Student Journalism First Place Presented to "Left Out," James Kirchick, Yale Daily News Magazine Second Place Presented to "Hollywood: Straight and Narrow?," Jason Blalock, UC Berkeley Television (University of California, Berkeley) Third Place Presented...
Excellence in HIV/AIDS Coverage Award First Place Presented to "AIDS at 25," David Jefferson, Geoff Cowley, Claudia Kalb, Andrew Murr, and Ellis Cose, Newsweek Second Place Presented to "Over 50 with HIV," Jim Rodriguez, Rocco Zappa, and Scott Dill, QTN World News...
Excellence in Photojournalism First Place Presented to "An Anniversary," Lacy Atkins, San Francisco Chronicle Second Place Presented to "Illusions of a Glittered Life," Kim Badawi, SHIFT Third Place Presented to "Center's Senior Prom," Gil Kaan, Frontiers...
Excellence in Online First Place Presented to "How AIDS Changed America," Newsweek.com Second Place Presented to "Gender Outlaws," Emily Alpert, InTheFray.com Third Place Presented to "A Frightening Odyssey," Patrick Letellier, Gay.com and PlanetOut.com