West Hollywood : Gay Group Presents Awards
The Rev. Carl Bean, founder of the Minority AIDS Project, and Virginia Uribe, a guidance counselor at Fairfax High School, this week were named man and woman of the year by the organization that sponsors the annual Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Pride Celebration in West Hollywood.
Christopher Street West, the nonprofit corporation that sponsors the celebration, presented the awards Tuesday at the Le Parc Hotel in West Hollywood.
Bean, a Los Angeles minister, was recognized for his work in founding the Minority AIDS Project, which provides services to AIDS patients in the minority community.
Uribe was selected for her work in establishing Project 10, a controversial program at Fairfax High School that provides special counseling to gay and lesbian students.
An award named in honor of the late San Francisco Mayor George Moscone was presented to state Controller Gray Davis for “speaking out on behalf of gay and lesbian issues when it did not necessarily flatter him to do so,” Christopher Street West spokesman David M. Smith said.
Another award, named in honor of the late San Francisco Councilman Harvey Milk, went to nightclub owner and former West Hollywood City Council candidate Gene LaPietra.
The LaPietra Foundation was instrumental in supporting the Chris Brownlee Hospice, an AIDS unit at Barlow Hospital in Elysian Park, Smith said.
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