The Brenda Howard Memorial Award was created in 2005 by the Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

 Chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays is a socio-political group of family members and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Its mission statement describes the goals of PFLAG as promoting health and well being of LGBT persons as well as actively supporting...

 (PFLAG).

This award to be given annually, recognizes an individual or organization whose work on behalf of the Bisexual Community

Bisexual community

Bisexual community is a term used to describe members of the LGBT community who identify as bisexual, pansexual, "fluid", and queer-identified, as well as their allies...

 and greater LGBT Community

Gay community

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 best exemplifies the vision, principals and community service

Community service

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 exemplified by the late bisexual rights

Civil rights

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 activist Brenda Howard

Brenda Howard

Brenda Howard was an American bisexual rights activist and sex-positive feminist. Howard was an important figure in the modern LGBT rights movement.- Biography :...

 and who serves as a positive and visible role model for the entire LGBT Community

Gay community

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.

This is the first time a major American

United States

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 LGBT

LGBT

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 organization

Organization

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 was named award after an out

Coming out

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 bisexual member of the LGBT community.

In addition to the “Brenda Howard Award” the Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

 Chapter of PFLAG also presents the “Morty Manford Award” and the “Carmel Tavadia Memorial Award”.

Recipients

Year	Recipient	Notes
2005	Lawrence Nelson	Founding Member / current Board Member of PFLAG Queens
2006	Tom Limoncelli Tom Limoncelli Tom Limoncelli is a noted system administrator, author, speaker and bisexual activist.A system administrator and network engineer since 1987, he speaks at conferences around the world on topics ranging from firewall security to time management...	New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...  BiNet USA BiNet USA BiNet USA is a national bisexual/pansexual civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. It was founded to formalize communication between U.S...  delegate, Bi-identified LGBT rights activist, SysAdmin & Author
2007	Wendy Moscow	long-time Queens NY Bi-identified LGBT rights activist
2008	Wendy Curry Wendy Curry Wendy Curry is an American bisexual rights activist and animal rescue advocate.- Career and civil rights work :She is currently the President of BiNet USA, the American national bisexual civil rights organization, a position she assumed in 2006. Previously she had previously served as the...	Bi-identified LGBT rights activist & then President of BiNet USA BiNet USA BiNet USA is a national bisexual/pansexual civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. It was founded to formalize communication between U.S...
2009	Micah Kellner Micah Kellner Micah Z. Kellner is an American politician from the state of New York. A Democrat, he serves as a member of the New York State Assembly from the 65th district, which includes Manhattan's Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island ....	1st openly Bi-identified LGBT LGBT LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...  person elected to New York State Assembly New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature. The Assembly is composed of 150 members representing an equal number of districts, with each district having an average population of 128,652...

External links

• PFLAG-Queens Website
• Brenda Howard's Website
• Gustafson, Anna Queens PFLAG to honor three in February January 1, 2009 Astoria Times