Emcee Etiqueteer Robert B. Dimmick
Photography by Matt Kurkowski of xocialite.com
2017 HistoryMaker Award
Celebrating Boston's LGBTQ History
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave, Boston
Tickets: $75.00
Honoring Larry Kessler and Allison Wright.
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. Past recipients of this award include Congressman Barney Frank, State Representative Byron Rushing, GLAD’s Civil Rights Project director Mary Bonauto, longtime BAGLY executive director Grace Sterling Stowell, Abe Rybeck from the Theater Offensive, and journalist Susan Ryan-Vollmar.
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. Previous Lavender Rhino honorees have included activist and organizer Christine M. Hurley, and Sandi Hammond and the Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus.
2017 HOST COMMITTEE
Jim Alexander & Tom Stocker | David Aronstein | Libby Bouvier | Harry Collings | Orlando Del Valle & Roland St. Jean | Tony Grima | Pat Gozemba & Karen Kahn | Kevin Hepner | Marvin Kabakoff | Neal Kane & Chip Schoonmaker | Stewart Landers | Russ Lopez & Andrew Sherman | Louise Rice
About the Recipients:
Larry Kessler
Larry Kessler is truly a monumental figure in Boston's LGBTQ community. Through his leadership of the AIDS Action Committee during the crucial first decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, he touched - and helped save - thousands of lives. Please join us in honoring a leader who raised a beacon of hope during one of the most challenging periods of our community's history.
Larry Kessler
Larry Kessler is truly a monumental figure in Boston's LGBTQ community. Through his leadership of the AIDS Action Committee during the crucial first decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, he touched - and helped save - thousands of lives. Please join us in honoring a leader who raised a beacon of hope during one of the most challenging periods of our community's history.
Allison Wright
A Staff Attorney at GLAD since 2012, Allison has primarily dedicated her work to addressing issues impacting LGBTQ people of color. Her cases have resulted in a model policy for transgender inclusion at shelters across Massachusetts, and helping a prominent Ugandan LGBTI activist gain asylum.
Allison Wright
A Staff Attorney at GLAD since 2012, Allison has primarily dedicated her work to addressing issues impacting LGBTQ people of color. Her cases have resulted in a model policy for transgender inclusion at shelters across Massachusetts, and helping a prominent Ugandan LGBTI activist gain asylum.