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TERRY BESWICK • MEMBERS' CHOICE

A Bay Area native, Terry Beswick has been fighting for LGBTQ people for thirty-five years. He was a co-founder of ACT UP in San Francisco and advocated for HIV/AIDS research and treatment with Project Inform, the Human Rights Campaign, and the White House Office of HIV/AIDS Policy. More recently, he spearheaded a campaign to save the Castro Country Club for queer people with substance use disorders and co-founded the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District. Currently, as Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society, he is leading an effort to establish the first full-scale museum of LGBTQ history in the United States.

STORMMIGUEL FLOREZ

StormMiguel Florez is a Xicanx trans filmmaker, musician, and producer who has been making queer art for over thirty years. He spent the majority of his artistic life focusing on music and performance – until 2012, when he discovered his love for filmmaking through the QWOCMAP media training program in San Francisco. He went on to co-produce and edit the award-winning documentary, MAJOR!, about Black trans activist, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and recently completed his feature directorial debut, The Whistle, a documentary about lesbian youth culture and codes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1970s and 1980s.

LENN KELLER • LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT GRAND MARSHAL Lenn Keller is an African American butch lesbian feminist archivist, activist, curator, filmmaker, photographer, writer, and mother. Lenn hails from Chicago and has called the San Francisco Bay Area home for over forty years. Lenn earned a BA in communication from Mills College. She has been photographing and exhibiting her work focused on activists, artists, people of color, and LGBTQ communities (with an emphasis on lesbians of color) since 1981. Her photographs were featured in last year’s “Queer California: Untold Stories” exhibition at the Oakland Museum, where one of her images was chosen for display on the exhibition’s banner and on transit billboards throughout the Bay Area. Lenn wrote, directed, and produced two award winning short films about Black lesbians, and is in production on a feature length documentary about a lesbian subculture.

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LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT ORGANIZATIONAL GRAND MARSHAL – PUBLIC CHOICE

The LGBT Asylum Project is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or HIV status. With seventy-five countries criminalizing homosexual conduct and fourteen countries implementing the death penalty for such acts, this work is needed now more than ever! The LGBT Asylum Project has a 100% success rate in getting asylum for LGBTQ+ immigrants.

REV. DR. JANIE SPAHR • PUBLIC CHOICE

Janie Spahr founded the Marin Spectrum LGBT Center in 1982, serving as Executive Director for ten years. In 2015, it merged with the Marin Aids Project to become the Spahr Center, named in her honor. Denied her pastoral position by the Presbyterian Church high court in 1992 for being an open lesbian, she became the first Minister Director of That All May Freely Serve and crisscrossed the nation for fourteen years with the message of equal rights and “rites” for the LGBTQ community. Twice tried by the PC(USA) Church for officiating same-sex marriages, she currently works with Trans HeartLine, a Marin County healing house for those following genderaffirmation surgery.

LANCE TOMA

CEO of San Francisco Community Health Center (formerly API Wellness), Lance Toma is a primary medical and behavioral health care clinician in the Tenderloin, serving the most marginalized and stigmatized in our community. Passionate about his work in service of the LGBTQ community and in ending the HIV epidemic, he is co-chair of the San Francisco HIV/AIDS Providers Network, co-chair of the board of NMAC (formerly National Minority AIDS Council), and on the board of CenterLink, the national coalition of LGBTQ community centers.

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