NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: March 31, 1998Contact: Rick Rosendall (202) 667-5139
GLAA to Honor NAACP Police Task Force, Others at 27th Anniversary Celebration
GLAA will present Distinguished Service Awards to:
- The NAACP-DC Metropolitan Police and Criminal Justice Review Task Force, for its leadership in establishing a broad-based coalition to address police-related concerns in the District of Columbia.
- Darryl Cooper, former chair of Gay Men and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), for his pioneering work in documenting homophobia in the DC Fire Department; establishing a cooperative relationship with the FBI; developing victim assistance programs; and shepherding GLOV to its current status as a funded organization with a full-time executive director.
- D.C. Allen, owner of the Crew Club, for his efforts to organize the Gay Business Guild and his cooperation with GLAA against District government regulatory abuse, including funding GLAA's advertising and postcard campaign on the subject in the spring of 1997.
- Carl Schmid of Capital Area Log Cabin, for his lobbying and coordination efforts in defending the District's gay and lesbian community from congressional homophobia.
- Us Helping Us, for its HIV prevention and support services for black gay and bisexual men.
- Barbara Chinn, Director of the Max Robinson Center of Whitman-Walker Clinic, located in Anacostia, for her leadership in providing HIV/AIDS services to high-risk and underserved Southeast DC residents including women, the homeless, and the formerly incarcerated.
