The City of West Hollywood and its Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board will host a ceremony of the annual Rainbow Key Awards to recognize people and groups who have made outstanding contributions to the LGBTQ community.
This year’s Rainbow Key Awards will be held in-person on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 6 p.m. at the City’s Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard, adjacent to West Hollywood Park. Details about registering to attend the event are available by visiting the City’s website at www.weho.org/rainbowkey. The ceremony will also be available for viewing on the City’s WeHoTV YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/wehotv.
Each year, the West Hollywood City Council selects award recipients following recommendations made through a nomination process overseen by the City of West Hollywood’s Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board (LGAB).
This year, we will be honoring:
- Damian Pelliccione, LaShawn McGhee, Alia Daniels, and Chris Rodriguez, founders of RevryTV, a global streaming network launched in 2016 that focuses on queer content and creators.
- Monica Trasandes, Director of Spanish Language and Latinx Media & Representation at GLAAD
- Jazzmun Crayton, Artist, Activist, Associate Director at APAIT
- Greg Hernandez, founder of “Greg in Hollywood” a blog covering LGBT Hollywood stories.
- Amita Swadhin, Founding Co-Director of Mirror Memoirs, a national storytelling and organizing project uplifting the narratives, healing and leadership of LGBTQI+ Black, Indigenous and of color child sexual abuse survivors in the movement to end rape culture.
The City of West Hollywood has, since 1993, presented Rainbow Key Awards to people and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the LGBTQ community. Previous honorees have included activists, artists, civic leaders, educators, community organizations, and many others. Contributions, whether by an individual or a group, may be in many forms, including the arts, community action, humanitarian action, sports, medicine, armed services, leadership potential, benefit to the global gay and lesbian community, or in other ways. More than 155 Rainbow Key Awards have been presented since the award’s inception.
Since incorporation in 1984, the City of West Hollywood has become one of the most influential cities in the nation for its outspoken advocacy on LGBTQ issues. No other city of its size has had a greater impact on the national public policy discourse on fairness and inclusiveness for LGBTQ people. More than 40 percent of residents in West Hollywood identify as LGBTQ and three of the five members of the current West Hollywood City Council are openly gay or lesbian. The City has advocated for nearly four decades for measures to support LGBTQ individuals and has been in the vanguard on efforts to gain and protect equality for all people on a state, national, and international level.
Perhaps the city should give awards to whole people that demonstrate WHO they are in the universal community rather than WHAT they are. Activists are not particularly attractive folks unless unusually evolved that know and appreciate how to work seamlessly with the status quo. Becoming a spectacle, especially a disruptive spectacle, has a severe downside and it annoys too many people.
Make peace with the bees rather than poking the nest.
I love how Ham gets triggered by LGBT anything. Go move to Mississippi lol.
almost seems homophobic.
Oh, it doesn’t need to be an LGBT issue for him to say something negative. It can be about anything.
good grief