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Honorees
Miller Brewing Company - Medal for Corporate Community Service
TBA - Medal for Outstanding Service to the LGBT Community
Community Service Awards
This year, PrideFest celebrates 20 years of lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT) pride in Milwaukee. In addition to celebrating
our own anniversary, PrideFest will honor other local LGBT organizations
that have existed 20 or more years. They have all persisted, endured
and celebrated through the myriad adversities and joys of our common
struggle for recognition and equality. The PrideFest 2007 Opening Ceremony
is dedicated to those community organizations and individuals that have,
by their resolve, commitment and perseverance, contributed to the betterment
of LGBT life in Milwaukee and the greater Midwest.
A special Community Service Award will be presented to each of those
groups whose longevity has served the LGBT community through sportsmanship,
music, philanthropy, heath care, compassion and comradeship.
Community Service Award Honorees and Year Founded
Wisconsin Cream City Chorus - 1987
Milwaukee Film/Video Festival - 1987
HIT/Holiday Invitational Tournament 1986
HIT/BestD League 1986
AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) - 1985
HIT/Monday Night Irregulars 1982
Cream City Foundation - 1982
Black and White Men Together (BWMT) - 1981
Castaways M.C. - 1979
Gay Youth Milwaukee - 1979
Metropolitan Community Church - Milwaukee - 1978
GAMMA - 1978
Saturday Softball Beer League (SSBL) - 1977
BESTD Clinic - 1974
Galano Club - 1973
Gay People's Union - 1971
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About the Medals
Each year a new medal will be designed by a local artist and executed
by Chris Jensen of C-3 Designs, official PrideFest jeweler.
PrideFest board member and executive director of the Milwaukee Gay
Arts Center, Paul Masterson designed this year's medal.
The medal is made of sterling silver and enamel. It consists of three
symbolic elements: the pink triangle supported by hands and six pillars,
each with an enamel center in the rainbow colors. It is to be worn suspended
from a neck ribbon.
The lower pillars buttress the triangle. They serve as the foundation
of our strength, resolve and commitment. The upper pillars are aligned
as a wall. They depict unity through diversity to defend our equality.
In the center, the pink triangle represents our past and present persecution.
It is held aloft as both a warning and as a sign of courage by the hands
of past victims and present activists. Our predecessors encourage us to
the continue struggle against intolerance.
The red ribbon symbolizes our martyrs - the unknown victims of
hatred throughout our past history as well as those, like Matthew Shepard,
have perished in more recent times. This memory is our motivation. |
