The Bay Area Reporter

The Bay Area Reporter

The Bay Area Reporter, recipient of the 2022 Legacy Award, is the country’s oldest continuously published LGBTQ newspaper, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021. The newspaper has long documented the queer community, from drag performances and the Imperial Court...
David Crary

David Crary

Award winning journalist David Crary is the recipient of the 2023 Randy Shilts Award for LGBTQ+ Coverage, which honors journalists who consistently bring stories of the LGBTQ+ community to life in mainstream media outlets. “David Crary has consistently produced...
Christina Kahrl

Christina Kahrl

Christina Kahrl is the 2023 recipient of the Jeanne Córdova Award. Kahrl has been the sports editor for The San Francisco Chronicle since 2021, where she became one of the few women ever named to lead a sports section for a major daily newspaper, and the first...
Chuck Culpepper

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...
James B. Stewart

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...
Frances “Franco” Stevens

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...