Celebrity trainer Michelle Bridges and guests at Honour 2010About Honour
The Honour Awards is an annual event produced by ACON which acknowledges outstanding service to or achievement within NSW’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community. The Honour Awards provide NSW’s GLBT community with an important and unique opportunity to recognise and celebrate excellence and achievement within our community as well as the difference that particular individuals and organisations make in our lives.
Your Awards
The Honour Awards is a true community event because community members are able to nominate people or organisations they feel have provided leadership or achieved outstanding success within the GLBT community OR have provided excellent service or made a significant contribution to the GLBT community. Nominations can be submitted in six categories covering the business, health, education, community, legal, political, media and cultural sectors.
Your Community
This year we’ve teamed up with some leading organisations who want to help make the Honour Awards a very special celebration of community spirit and service. The following organisations are our presenting partners for the 2011 Honour Awards and we’d like to thank them for their generous support:
- Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association
- SSO Media
- Foxtel
- Merivale
- 360 Management
- GLYDE Health
- New Mardi Gras
Your Support
The Honour Awards is also a fundraising event for ACON, NSW’s and Australia’s largest community-based GLBT health and HIV/AIDS organisation. Every year, ACON has to raise in excess of $1million to finance many of our GLBT health-related services. That’s because our core funding from NSW Health is dedicated to the delivery of HIV-related programs only.
History
The Honour Awards began in 2007 as a special event to acknowledge people who have displayed exceptional commitment to and leadership within the GLBT community. From 2007 – 2009, winners were selected by the ACON Board. Last year the format of the Awards changed and winners were selected from a list of nominees a panel of judges. The previous winners are:
- Don Baxter (2007) – Leading HIV/AIDS activist and administrator
- Jane Marsden (2007) – GLBT community activist and fundraiser
- Peter Trebilco (2008) –Political activist and GLBT mental health advocate
- Bruce Pollack (2008) – GLBT community activist and fundraiser
- Graeme Browning/Mitzi Macintosh (2009) – Performer, artist and fundraiser
- Ken Davis (2009) – Political activist and GLBT historian
- Sue Wills and Lex Watson (2010 Community Hero Award)
- Reece Farmilo, Out Travel (2010 Business Award)
- Robert Hemburrow (2010 Health and Wellbeing Award)
- Trevor Ashley (2010 Media/Arts/Entertainment Award)
- Queer Screen (2010 Community Organisation Award)
Terms and Conditions
Click here to read the Honour Awards 2011 Terms and Conditions