Featuring Emcee Jared Bowen of WGBH News
2011 HistoryMaker Award
Celebrating Boston's LGBTQ History
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street , Boston, MA 02116
Tickets: $125.00
Honoring Mary L. Bonauto and Maggie Cee.
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.
2011 HOST COMMITTEE
Kevin Batt | Michael Connolly and John Smith | Libby Bouvier & Andrea Devine | Orlando Dell Valle and Roland St. Jean | Amit Dixit | Neal Kane and Charles Schoonmaker | Pat Gozemba and Karen Kahn | Tony Grima and Peter Muise | Kevin Hepner | Stewart Landers | Warren Seamans | Donald Yasi
About the Recipients:
Mary L. Bonauto
Mary L. Bonauto has been the Civil Rights Project Director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) since 1990. Her practice concentrates on impact litigation for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, as well as people living with HIV or AIDS. She has litigated widely in the state and federal courts and agencies of the six New England states since 1990 on issues of employment discrimination, custody, free speech and civil rights. In 1999, she and two Vermont co-counsel won a ruling that same-sex couples are entitled to all of the benefits and protections of civil marriage in the case of Baker v. State of Vermont. This ruling prompted the Vermont legislature to enact the nation’s first “civil union” law for same-sex couples. Mary was lead counsel in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, which resulted in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's landmark decision that prohibiting civil marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional. She is currently leading GLAD’s challenge to the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in two cases in federal court.
Mary L. Bonauto
Mary L. Bonauto has been the Civil Rights Project Director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) since 1990. Her practice concentrates on impact litigation for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, as well as people living with HIV or AIDS. She has litigated widely in the state and federal courts and agencies of the six New England states since 1990 on issues of employment discrimination, custody, free speech and civil rights. In 1999, she and two Vermont co-counsel won a ruling that same-sex couples are entitled to all of the benefits and protections of civil marriage in the case of Baker v. State of Vermont. This ruling prompted the Vermont legislature to enact the nation’s first “civil union” law for same-sex couples. Mary was lead counsel in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, which resulted in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's landmark decision that prohibiting civil marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional. She is currently leading GLAD’s challenge to the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in two cases in federal court.
Maggie Cee
Maggie Cee is an artist, activist, dancer, and educator committed to community and social change. She is the founder and artistic director of The Femme Show, a ground-breaking touring variety show about queer femme identity.
Maggie Cee
Maggie Cee is an artist, activist, dancer, and educator committed to community and social change. She is the founder and artistic director of The Femme Show, a ground-breaking touring variety show about queer femme identity.