The Harvey Milk Award for Outstanding Leadership Advancing LGBTQIA+ Rights.

Harvey Milk understood the power of partnerships. An important part of his legacy to all of us is the lesson that people can achieve bigger, more far-reaching things when we work in partnerships, collaborating with like-minded folks and groups who share similar goals, than working alone. He taught us how to do that with the Coors beer boycott.

The boycott began as a local labor matter in Boulder Colorado, Coors’ home base, in the late 1960s. During the 1970s, it expanded to cover most of the western United States, with support from the Latino community, African Americans, women’s rights groups, as well as labor unions. LGBTQ rights groups got involved in the boycott, after information surfaced about Coors’ discriminatory hiring practices.

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The Bayard Rustin Award for a Prominent Leader.

Bayard Rustin was an American political activist, a prominent leader in social movements for civil rights, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

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The Marsha P Johnson Award

Marsha P Johnson’s contributions to fight for equality, her role in the Stonewall Uprising, and her revolutionary activism have solidified her legacy.

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