+ WELCOME TO THE 2010 ANNUAL EMERY AWARDS + benefiting Marc Ecko Cut and Sew Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Cipriani Wall Street | New York City Cocktail Reception | 6:00 PM recognizes and supports Dinner and Awards Ceremony | 7:00 PM After - Party | 9:30 PM the Hetrick-Martin Institute Emcee for providing a nurturing Wendy Williams environment and the opportunity 2010 Honorees Arianna Huffington | Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Huffingtonpost.com for LGBTQ youth to achieve Marc Ecko | Founder and CCO of Marc Ecko Enterprises Ryan Murphy | Creator, Writer and Director of Glee their full potential. Live Auction Host Bethenny Frankel Special Performance Matthew Morrison DJ Corey Craig Hosted By: Rob Smith, Event Chair MISSION STATEMENT THE EMERY S. HETRICK AWARDS Former Youth Advisory Board The Emery S. Hetrick Award (or “Emery”) for Outstanding Contributions to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth is presented annually to individuals or or- ganizations that meet these young people’s critical needs. About Hetrick-Martin The Emery S. Hetrick Award (or “Emery”) for Outstanding Contributions to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, The Hetrick-Martin Institute, founded in 1979, is the oldest and largest non-for-profit, multi-service Transgender and Questioning Youth is presented annually to individuals or organizations that agency dedicated to serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, provid- meet these young people’s critical needs. Emery S. Hetrick, a psychiatrist, activist, researcher, artist, ing a broad range of vital programming, including educational services for at-risk youth in The and musician is best remembered for his thoughtful and creative leadership in the lesbian and gay Harvey Milk High School; individual, group, and family counseling; concrete services and case community. Emery, along with his partner, A. Damien Martin, founded the Institute for the Protection management for homeless and at-risk teenagers through supportive services; social and cultural of Lesbian and Gay Youth (IPLGY), now known as The Hetrick-Martin Institute, and was instrumental activities; health and wellness activities; and career exploration and youth leadership offered in transforming the Institute from an advocacy group to an organization that provides compre- through after-school services. The Institute serves youth from the five boroughs of New York City hensive services for lesbian and gay youth. Emery was the first psychiatrist hired by the Ackerman and the surrounding metropolitan area. Family Institute, which pioneered family therapy, and in the 1960s was part of a mobile crisis team that brought mental health home visits into building and housing projects that no one else would enter. In the 1970s, he was one of the founders of Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE), today known as Service and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders, and the New York Psychiatric Association. Emery was also a driving force behind the formation of a gay caucus inside the American Psychiatric Association, which helped eradicate the profession’s view of homosexuality as a mental illness. When he died of AIDS in 1987, he was a director for medical research at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in New York. 4 2010 ANNUAL EMERY AWARDS 5 Dear Hetrick-Martin Family Members, FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Welcome to the 24th Annual Emery Awards benefitting The Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI). I am thrilled and honored to share this evening with you. It’s been a long time coming and, in truth, the THOMAS KREVER road that led us here this evening has been one fraught with many perils and pitfalls, making it most bittersweet. Despite these difficult economic times, this has been a tremendous year of growth for HMI in the vital services we offer. Recognizing the dramatic needs of many LGBTQ youth reaching adult- hood, and those important rites of passage not afforded them due to their years of stigma and isolation, we’ve increased our ages served from 21 to now 24 years old; a critical trend now being recognized by other organizations across the country. We have expanded our hours of operation Monday through Friday until 8pm, doubled our hot meal program in the last four years to over 8,000 hot meals served, and are now approaching the 2,000 mark for young people served directly on-site - 90% of whom are youth of color and most in need of our services. Within our space, young people can avail themselves of our homeless pantry services offering them a hot shower, clean clothes, a Metrocard, and mental health counseling, while our after-school programs offer academic enrichment, job readiness, health & wellness, and arts & cultural programming within a safe haven - free of bias, prejudice and fear. While our numbers increased at 2 Astor Place, our social media youth-led programs training peers via the internet have helped us to reach an ad- ditional 6,000 more youth around the world. Help and Education are truly just a mouse click away! But still, this was not enough for the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ youth services organization, While the documented responses by the LGBTQ community, as well as those of our straight allies for the first time in our over three decades of serving youth, we have established a new center in have been both inspiring and humbling, I remind us all here tonight the importance of not just offer- Newark, New Jersey, one that will become the first comprehensive LGBTQ youth after-school pro- ing hope, and waiting for things to get better, but providing the critical assistance on a daily basis gram in the city’s history! to these youth in the “here and now.” That is what has driven HMI since its inception over 30 years ago: make life better for our youth today, recognizing them for the wonderful beings that they are, While we’ve focused our energies around strategic growth and the world beyond our front doors, perfect in their creation, they add their own special and unique thread to the tapestry that is our we have not forgotten our responsibilities to our young people. We continue to utilize our long- world. Your presence here tonight is helping to ensure that it will indeed get better for these youth; standing hallmark programs and services, and our commitment as vanguards for a bully-free edu- they too will be able to grow and mature into caring adults such as yourselves and enjoy the bright cational environment - Harvey Milk High School. Harvey Milk High School continues to produce and amazing future that all of you here this evening represent. Thank you for being a part of our top-notch graduates in a school designed to provide a public education regardless of a young evening; thank you for being a part of their future. Finally, I thank you for helping us to provide our person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. HMI continues to provide mental, health and sup- young people with an opportunity of a lifetime! portive services, as well as academic enrichment and scholarship opportunities, so that these young people can assume the fulll mantle of citizenship and thrive as adults. We remain committed With deep appreciation, to this erstwhile cause and are proud of our founding and continued relationship. Yet amidst this impressive time of growth and expansion at Hetrick-Martin, a wave of tragedy is grip- ping our community. The heartbreaking accounts of LGBTQ suicides across the country serves as a constant reminder of just how much is as stake here tonight. As we gather in this fabulous event space, let us not forget what it was like so many years ago when you were that teenage boy or girl, sitting in school or at home, full of panic, fear and despair, feeling isolated, thinking that you Thomas Krever | Executive Director were the only one in the world who felt this way; told you were unworthy, made to feel unloved, and unprotected from threats of violence. These suicides and acts of bullying strike a chord within our very souls as we remember what it was like at that most vulnerable stage of our life. 6 2010 ANNUAL EMERY AWARDS 7 FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dear Friends, On behalf of the Hetrick-Martin Institute’s Board of Directors, welcome to the 24th Annual Emery Our first honoree tonight is a woman who pioneered the use of on-line news and commentary as Awards. We are honored to have you join us tonight and would like to express our profound grati- a global platform for free speech and progressive causes. Arianna Huffington’s passionate com- tude for your tremendous support throughout the year. mitment to free expression has helped countless gays and lesbians and straight allies give voice to our cause. Just as Hetrick-Martin Institute provides a safe environment for LGBTQ youth to thrive As we gather here tonight, we are reminded, now more than ever, of how critical it is to provide help and express themselves, so too has Ms. Huffington provided a space for LGBTQ advocates of all and support to our gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. The recent suicides and reports ages and backgrounds to express themselves. of bullying underscore what it means for an organization such as HMI to exist, to have a place for those who have been rejected, shunned, harmed and marginalized by everyone else. Hearing Our second honoree has been a longtime supporter of Hetrick-Martin Institute and defender of these stories of young people who had nowhere else to turn but to a desire to no longer exist is equal rights for our community. Not only is Marc Ecko one of the world’s most successful designers, beyond heartbreaking. It is inexcusable.