After kicking off with a huge celebration in 2019, followed up by a virtual production in 2020, the third annual awards will be handed out again virtually by the LGBTQ HER/HIStory Project. The Rubi Awards are presented to people, events, or locations that are important parts of our local LGBTQ history. They are named after the Rubi Girls, a local group that has developed a national reputation for fun events that raise money for important projects. The Rubi’s represent the best values of our community: creativity, self-determination, community engagement, and bridge-building. You can watch the awards on Wednesday, October 20th, at 7 pm via Spectrum Cable channel 5 or MVCC channel 991, or www.datv.org for the Live stream.
This year the Rubi Award winners are in memory of Jerry L. Mallicoat, one of the founders of the project. The winners are Jerry L. Mallicoat, Leslie Loper, Father Richard Young, Linda Bush, Sandy, Oleh Mudry & David’s Place, Randle B. Moore III, and Michael Knote.
The LGBT Center have begun gathering items from her/history books, banners, signs, buttons, evening gowns, and sports uniforms. All these things inform and explain what our community has experienced and how it has changed. These items are housed in the archives of the Leon Bey Memorial Library at the LGBT Center in downtown Dayton. If you have material like this to contribute please contact them through email at [email protected] and we will arrange to accept your contribution.
You can watch the 2020 Awards that honored the “Godfather of Modern Gay Fiction” author Victor Banis Jr., and a former New York Metropolitan Opera choreographer and ballet dancer Stuart Sebastian. Also honored was ally Cassie Barlow, a retired Colonel and Base Commander for the 88th Air Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and Darryl Demure, who is the host and producer of the longest-running LGBT-themed TV talk show in the U.S. on local cable channel DATV.here:
