Black Tie Dinner Awards
Black Tie Dinner recognizes individuals, organizations or corporations that
have made a significant contribution regarding to the continued fight for GLBT rights.
Media Award
Established in 2008, the Black Tie Dinner Media Award recognizes the importance of increased positive awareness
of GLBT issues in the media.
- 2009: Cyndi Lauper
- 2008: Logo
Elizabeth Birch Equality Award
Named for the former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, The Elizabeth Birch Equality Award is given in recognition of demonstrated national impact on GLBT rights.
- 2009: Judy Shepard
- 2008: Bishop V. Gene Robinson
- 2007: not awarded
- 2006: Alan Cumming
- 2005: Sharon Stone
- 2004: Showtime Networks
- 2003: Elizabeth Birch
Kuchling Humanitarian Award
The Kuchling Humanitarian Award, presented each year since 1983 at the Black
Tie Dinner, is given to individuals who have made extraordinary gifts of their time and talents on behalf
of the gay, lesbian bisexual and transgender community. The award is named in honor of the late Raymond
Kuchling, a leading activist in Dallas’ LGBT community in the 1980s.
- 2009: Steve Atkinson
- 2008: Rebecca Covell & Phil Johnson
- 2007: Roger Wedell
- 2006: Jay Oppenheimer
- 2005: Christine Jarosz
- 2004: Lee Taft
- 2003: C. Michael Toole
- 2002: Becky Thompson
- 2001: Larry Pease
- 2000: The Honorable Harryette Ehrhardt
- 1999: CeCe Cox & Jack Pettit
- 1998: Carol Hall/Candy Marcum & George Harris/Jack Evans
- 1997: Kathy Bowser & Richard Peeples
- 1996: Alan Levi & Barbara O’Brien
- 1995: Deb Elder & Don McCleary
- 1994: Carolyn Dunbar & Carl Parker
- 1993: Mica England & Randolph Terrell
- 1992: Lory Huitt-Masters & Reed Dana Hunsdorfer
- 1991: Vivienne Armstrong / Louis Young & Raymond Maurice Kuchling
- 1990: William Warren Waybourn
- 1989: Charlotte Taft
- 1988: Michael Raymond Merdian
- 1987: Michael David Grossman
- 1986: William Harvey Nelson, Jr.
- 1985: Donald Floyd Baker
- 1984: James Richard Weaver, Jr.
- 1983: John Thomas