The GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award is a special GLAAD Media Award presented annually by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. It is named in honor of the Los Angeles casting director Stephen F. Kolzak, who devoted the last part of his life to fighting homophobia and AIDS-phobia within the entertainment industry. The award is given to an openly LGBT member of the entertainment or media community for his or her work toward eliminating homophobia. It has been awarded since 1991, with Kolzak being the posthumous inaugural recipient.
List of recipients
1991 – Stephen F. Kolzak (posthumous) 1992 – Paul Monette and Lillian Faderman 1993 – Sir Ian McKellen 1994 – none 1995 – Pedro Zamora 1996 – none 1997 – Bruce Vilanch 1998 – Ellen DeGeneres 1999 – Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher 2000 – Anne Heche 2001 – Paris Barclay 2002 – Alan Ball 2003 – Todd Haynes 2004 – John Waters 2005 – Bill Condon 2006 – Melissa Etheridge 2007 – Martina Navratilova 2008 – Rufus Wainwright 2009 – Gene Robinson 2010 – Wanda Sykes 2011 – Robert Greenblatt 2012 – Chaz Bono 2013 – Steve Warren (attorney) 2014 – Laverne Cox 2015 – Roland Emmerich 2016 – Ruby Rose 2017 – Troye Sivan 2018 – Jim Parsons 2019 – Sean Hayes 2020 – Janet Mock 2022 – Michaela Jaé Rodriguez