• Hosted by Carson Kressley
  Of "How to Look Good Naked"
  and "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"
  (New York Only)
• 2009 Felipa de Souza Award
  Helem
  Accepted by George Azzi,
  National Coordinator of Helem
• 2009 Special Recognition Award
  Microsoft

New York

Monday, March 30, 2009
6:30 to 8:30 pm
The Rosenthal Penthouse at
NYU Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South

CHAIR

Houman Sarshar

San Francisco

Thursday, April 2, 2009
6:30 to 8:30 pm
W Hotel
181 Third St.
 

CHAIR

Jim Freeman

HOST COMMITTEE MEMBERS

• Linda Blackmore
• Paula Ettelbrick
• Jim Freeman
• Sel J. Hwahng
• Tim Lane
• Todd Larson
• Pamela Merchant
• LeRoy Potts
• Runa Saeki
• Dorothy Sander
• Houman Sarshar

INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS

Presenting Sponsors

• Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
• IBM

Underwriting Sponsors

• Paul Albert
• Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher
• James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen
• Dorothy Sander
• Ted Snowdon
• Lois Whitman
• Léonie Walker & Kate O’Hanlan, M.D.

Benefactor Sponsors

• Alvin Baum
• Runa Saeki & Sharon Brooks
• Paula Ettelbrick
• Lione Legault & Tom Moore

Supporting Sponsors

• Rebecca Davis & Mark Hoffman
• Dipti Ghosh & Meggy Gotuaco
• Marta Drury
• Janice Kam
• Pamela Merchant & Kirby Sack
• Deborah Santana
• Houman Sarshar
• Gill Foundation
• Ellen Spertus & Keith Golden
• Anthony Volponi

Advocate Sponsors

• Law Offices of Ally Bolour
• Jennifer Costley & Judith E. Turkel
• Bob Dockendorf
• Suzanne Goldberg, Adam Ettelbrick & Julia Ettelbrick
• Jim Freeman
• Frederick Hertz & Randolph Langenbach
• M. Elaine Johnston
• Tim Lane
• National Center for Lesbian Rights
• Robert Smolin
• Judith Turkel & Jennifer Costley

Friend Sponsors

• Roger Doughty
• Victor Honig & Lorraine Honig
• Richard Isay
• Julie Dorf & Jenni Olson
• Sel J. Hwahng, PHD
• Tina Salandra
• Jayne Sherman
• Cris Stephen