IMPACT AWARDS
Gay City News Impact Awards to Air on November 11
The ceremony, presented by MetroPlus Health, will be virtual and interactive
BY TAT BELLAMY-WALKER
The annual Gay City
News Impact Awards,
presented by MetroPlus
Health Plan, is returning
in the form of a free, virtual,
live broadcast on November 11.
Attendees can register at gaycitynewsimpactawards.
com.
The ceremony, which honors
LGBTQ trailblazers and allies in
New York City, will be emceed by
Paul Schindler, the founding editor
of Gay City News, who retired
from his role as editor-in-chief in
2020 after more than two decades
of service covering New York City’s
LGBTQ community.
Attendees can join the free online
Zoom broadcast, which includes a
live chat, allowing folks to engage
and cheer on the honorees.
Accompanying the Impact
Awards will be a special issue of
The Gay City News Impact Awards will stream an online broadcast of the ceremony in November.
Gay City News on November 4, as
well as a special magaizne that
will be published. Honorees will be
highlighted with their photos and
bios detailing their background
and achievements.
SCHNEPS MEDIA
In addition to MetroPlus Health
Plan, the event is also made possibly
by the support of additional
sponsors including Amida Care,
New York’s largest Medicaid special
needs health plan; Tusk Strategies;
Breed Evolutions Corp; TD
Bank; and the East Midtown Partnership.
Some of this year’s honorees
include transgender advocate TS
Candii, who is the founder of Black
Trans Nation; Elisa Crespo, the
executive director of Equality New
York, an LGBTQ advocacy organization;
Lyosha Gorshkov, the
co-president of Brighton Beach
Pride (RUSA LGBT); Pat Martin,
the founder and CEO of HarlemYes
Inc.; and Alexander Roque, the executive
director of the Ali Forney
Center, an LGBTQ youth homeless
shelter in New York City.
Past honorees have included marriage
trailblazer Edie Windsor; Jevon
Martin, the executive director of
Princess Janae’s Place in the Bronx;
activist Anne Maguire of Revolting
Lesbians; and Andy Marra, executive
director of the Transgender Legal
Defense and Education Fund.
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