Awards

Chuck Culpepper

Chuck Culpepper is the recipient of the 2022 Lisa Ben Award for Achievement in Features Coverage. Culpepper covers national college sports, golf, international sports and some tennis for The Washington Post. He wrote previously for Sports On Earth/USA Today, The...

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James B. Stewart

James B. Stewart is one of the 2023 inductees into the LGBTQ+ Journalists Hall of Fame. James B. Stewart is currently a contributor to The New Yorker and a columnist for The New York Times, as well as an award-winning author, attorney and educator. In 2007 he was...

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Frances “Franco” Stevens

Franco Stevens is one of the 2023 inductees into the LGBTQ+ Journalists Hall of Fame. Frances “Franco” Stevens is a pioneering lesbian publisher, editor, and community leader. She founded Curve magazine (originally titled Deneuve) in 1990 in her personal mission to...

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Susan Horowitz and Jan Stevenson

Susan Horowitz and Jan Stevenson are two of the 2023 inductees into the LGBTQ+ Journalists Hall of Fame. Journalists and co-publishers Susan Horowitz and Jan Stevenson have been covering the triumphs, setbacks, and everyday experience of the Michigan LGBTQ+ community...

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Michelle Johnson

Michelle Johnson is one of the 2022 inductees into the LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame. Johnson, a former editor for the Boston Globe, was part of the team that launched the Globe’s award-winning regional website, Boston.com. Prior to moving into online media she was...

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Debra Chasnoff

The late Debra Chasnoff is one of the 2022 inductees into the LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame. Chasnoff was an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and nationally recognized champion of using film as an organizing tool for social justice campaigns, and a pioneering...

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Chris Cash

Chris Cash is one of the 2022 inductees into the LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame. Cash is the founding publisher of Southern Voice (SoVo), the LGBTQ newspaper of record for Atlanta and the southeast. In 1988, Cash and a small group of volunteers launched a bi-weekly...

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Windy City Times

2021 Legacy Award winner The Windy City Times was founded in 1985 to serve the diverse needs of the Chicago LGBTQ community. The outlet first began as a free print newspaper but has since grown to be a daily online platform with more than 125,000 site visitors every...

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David Plazas

David Plazas is the recipient of the 2021 NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Leadership Award. Plazas is the Opinion and Engagement Director for the USA TODAY Network in Tennessee and for the Tennessean. He has written award-winning editorials and columns on...

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Jane Coaston

Journalist Jane Coaston is the recipient of the 2022 NLGJA Jeanne Córdova Award. Coaston is the host of The New York Times podcast "The Argument." Previously, she was the senior politics reporter at Vox, with a focus on conservatism and the G.O.P. Her work has...

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