by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2007 | 2007 Hall of Fame
Jim Kepner began writing extensively for ONE Magazine under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms in April 1954. With assistance from others nationwide, he documented the 1950s witch hunts, exposing the police and liquor control tactics that targeted gay people and...
by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2006 | 2006 Hall of Fame
In 1992, Marlon Riggs wrote about the questions the approaching 21st century raised. The challenges to the “cozy myths by which America has been ritually defined…In the next century, can we even continue to speak (could we ever?) of a collective...
by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2005 | 2005 Hall of Fame
Don Slater was a leader among the gay men who, in 1953, founded ONE magazine. Slater saw that act as essential to the effort to secure rights for gay men and lesbians. A social movement has to have a voice beyond its own members,” he said. For the first time, ONE gave...
by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2005 | 2005 Hall of Fame
The name Randy Shilts is inextricably linked with the modern AIDS epidemic. As a reporter for The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle and as the author of the 1987 book “And the Band Played On,” Randy spent the bulk of his career covering the disease that, sadly,...
by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2005 | 2005 Hall of Fame
Sarah Pettit’s life was cut short in 2003 by lymphoma, but her work as a senior editor at Newsweek and a pioneer in gay media had a lasting impact. Pettit’s emergence as a groundbreaking journalist began in 1989, when she became the arts editor for the...
by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2005 | 2005 Hall of Fame
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) was not particularly welcoming to its lesbian and gay members before Thomas Morgan III was elected as the association’s president in 1989. Many doubted that they existed — sometimes openly referring to...
