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welcome to the monette horwitz trust skip to content facebook instagram bluesky home awardees advisors about contact open mobile menu close mobile menu the monette horwitz trust honors individuals and organizations for their significant contributions toward eradicating homophobia over 29 years of merit based awards paul monette 1945 1995 read more donja r love 2025 awardee playwright poet filmmaker ted kerr 2025 awardee artist writer activist leah johnson 2024 awardee writer bookseller zooey zephyr 2024 awardee representative in montana s 100th house district the pellagatti family 2026 ally award chase strangio 2022 awardee deputy director for transgender justice at the aclu dr james a makokis prumsodon ok 2022 awardee indigenous transgender healthcare leader 2020 awardee champion of khmer culture artist teacher writer nur warsame parvez sharma 2016 awardee filmmaker writer speaker 2017 awardee imam community leader jewel thais williams 2015 awardee entrepreneur humanitarian karen franklin 2001 awardee research scholar announcements our heartfelt gratitude the moho extends its heartfelt gratitude to our advisory committee member extraordinaire chris freeman who after twenty years of service is stepping down to pursue retirement and life abroad with his family thank you chris and best of luck to you moho is pleased to announce our 2026 awardees we honor them for their important work in fighting homophobia and working to improve the lives and experiences of lgbtq people in the united states and worldwide join us in celebrating our awardees for 2026 our 2026 awardees act up la oral history project documenting early members of act up la act up la oral history project act up los angeles oral history project in a not for profit grassroots organization with a mission to film record and document the stories of early angeleno act up members this bank of archives is intended to preserve the heroic efforts of women and men gay and straight who valiantly fought against the homophobic systems in american healthcare at that time thanks to the folks at act up la oral history project these heroes will not be forgotten actupla org authentically plastic turkana and nsasi queer artists combatting homophobia in uganda anti mass collective the anti mass collective in uganda was co founded by three queer artists dj producer and multidisciplinary artist authentically plastic artist raldy odil and dj and producer nsasi for fear of reprisal they will be recognized here by their artist names only this award honors their courageous and vital work to combat homophobia under extremely difficult conditions currently in uganda through their music and community practice anti mass has created and defended pop up spaces for queer expression visibility and community building campaign for southern equality non profit serving the queer south campaign for southern equality the campaign for southern equality is working to build a south where lgbtq people are equal in every part of life they provide services for trans youth and programs in community health legal equity healing and resilience research and in schools cse is a non profit serving the queer south since 2011 southernequality org the pellagatti family ally award 2026 the pellagatti family the moho is proud to bestow our ally award 2026 to the pellagatti family of new jersey in their valiant efforts to re open the unsolved murder case of their trans sister venus pellagatti xtravaganza they teamed up with the queer and trans folk of the house of xtravaganza as documented in the recent film i m your venus venus had starred in the award winning documentary paris is burning before her murder together the house of xtravaganza the pellagatti s lawyers and others were able to make history by re gendering venus s birth certificate posthumously changing her tombstone achieving historic recognition and most importantly showing the world that cisgender people can work together with transgender people to create a more loving world see previous years awardees recognizing excellence since 1998 copyright monette horwitz trust all rights reserved 2026 contact info monettehorwitz org site by twd back to top