Featuring Emcee Jared Bowen of WGBH News
2010 HistoryMaker Award
Celebrating Boston's LGBTQ History
Thursday, September 30, 2010
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street | Boston
Tickets: $125.00
Honoring the Gay Community News (GCN) Collective and Adaora Asala.
The History Project invites you to celebrate Boston’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history and to join us as we recognize the community members and organizations who make history every day.
The HistoryMaker Award
The HistoryMaker Award has been presented since 2009 to those whose lifetime achievements have had a significant and positive effect on Boston and Massachusetts' LGBTQ communities. Recipients of this award include Congressman Barney Frank, GLAD’s Civil Rights Project director Mary Bonauto, and longtime BAGLY executive director Grace Sterling Stowell.
The Lavender Rhino Award
Named after one of the early symbols of the Gay Liberation movement, the Lavender Rhino Award is presented to an emerging activist or organization whose impact on the local LGBTQ community deserves recognition.
2010 HOST COMMITTEE
Kevin Batt | Bruce Bell & George Smart | Libby Bouvier & Andrea Devine | Michael Connolly & John Smith | Orlando Del Valle & Roland St. Jean | Amit Dixit | Harris J. Elder | Patricia Gozemba & Karen Kahn | Anthony Grima & Peter Muise | Kevin Hepner | Neal Kane & Charles Schoonmaker | Stewart Landers | Kenneth Mayer | Pat Ould | Warren Seamans | Andrea Still Gray & Julie Gray | Ernie Torgerson | Donald Yasi
About the Recipients:
The Gay Community News (GCN) Collective
Gay Community News was a weekly journal published in Boston from 1973 to 1992 by the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation. It was an important resource for the LGBT community, reporting a wide variety of LGBT related news.
The Gay Community News (GCN) Collective
Gay Community News was a weekly journal published in Boston from 1973 to 1992 by the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation. It was an important resource for the LGBT community, reporting a wide variety of LGBT related news.
Adaora Asala
Adaora Asala, afrofeminist writer, social commentator, and non-profit social media strategist at Spectra Speaks, and founder of Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston), the host committee of QWOC Week, and the first multicultural social networking group for LGBTQ women of color and allies in New England.
Adaora Asala
Adaora Asala, afrofeminist writer, social commentator, and non-profit social media strategist at Spectra Speaks, and founder of Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston), the host committee of QWOC Week, and the first multicultural social networking group for LGBTQ women of color and allies in New England.