Since 1990, GLAA has presented awards to local individuals and organizations that have served the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community in the national capital area. This is a complete list of Distinguished Service Award (DSA) recipients.

2010

Brian Moore

Brian K. Flowers

Michael Crawford

Mark Levine

Nick McCoy

Rev. Monique Ellison

Sultan Shakir

DC Clergy United for Marriage Equality

David Mariner

Sean Bugg

Lou Chibbaro

Joan E. Biren

2009

Martin Murray

Nancy D. Polikoff

Rabbi Robert J. Saks

Alan Sharpe

DC Trans Coalition

Just Detention International

Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

2008

Dignity/Washington

Christopher Dyer

D.C. Office of Police Complaints

Sanja Partalo

PreventionWorks!

Brian Watson

2007

Sheila Alexander-Reid

DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice

Charles C. Francis

Jason Juffras

Charles H. Ramsey

Kenneth L. Saunders

2006

The Honorable Phil Mendelson

Art Spitzer

Randy Shulman

Metropolitan Community Church of Washington

Patsy Lynch

2005

Cornelius Baker

Brother, Help Thyself

The Honorable Linda W. Cropp

Colbert I. King

Jane Troxell

2004

Sarah Kellogg

Deacon Maccubbin

The Mautner Project

Cheryl Spector

Nadine Chandler Wilburn

2003

Councilmember Kathy Patterson

Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit of the Metropolitan Police Department

Karen Armagost

Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC

Bob Summersgill

2002

Earline Budd

Councilmember David Catania

Free State Justice

Barbara Menard

Don Michaels

The Rainbow History Project

2001

Councilmember Sharon Ambrose

The Bridge Builders Fund

Councilmember Jack Evans

Federal GLOBE

Morgan McDonald

Karen Pettapiece

2000

Jeffrey Berman of Public Defender Service

Steve Block of ACLU/National Capital Area

Barrett Brick

Food and Friends

Dr. Patricia Hawkins of Whitman-Walker Clinic

Jessica Xavier

1999

Rick Rosendall

One in Ten

Wayne Turner and the late Steve Michael of ACT UP Washington

Councilmember Carol Schwartz

Richard F. Silber, Esq. & Mrs. Margie Hunter

1998

The NAACP-DC Metropolitan Police and Criminal Justice Review Task Force

Darryl Cooper, former chair of Gay Men and Lesbians Opposing Violence

D.C. Allen, owner of the Crew Club

Carl Schmid

Us Helping Us

Barbara Chinn, Director of the Max Robinson Center of Whitman-Walker Clinic

1997

Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day, Inc.

The District of Columbia Jewish Community Center

The student staff of the WBNC Cable-TV program "Shades of Grey"

Jeff Coudriet

Michael Singerman

Outstanding Lifetime Service Award to the late Dave Clarke

1996

25th Anniversary - GLAA honored, no awards given.

1995

Mandy Carter

Mary Jane DeFrank

HIV Community Coalition

Cartwright Moore

John Ralls

Washington Historical Society

1994

Richard Cohen

Condom Availability Coalition

James Getty

Brian Mahoney

Phil Pannell

Cathy Renna

1993

Dr. Mohammed Akhter

Caitlin Ryan

Mindy Daniels

Ernest Hopkins

Hank Carde

Elias Farajaje-Jones

Letitia Gomez

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council

1992

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Alberto Bastida

Chris Bates

Dick Boesch

Eve Faber

GLOV

Jim Graham

Mayo Lee

Pat Matthews

1991

John Wilson

Karen Tramantano

Christopher Echols

Judith Nedrow

Michael Spinar

Ron Collins

Craig Howell

The Mautner Project

1990

Jeff Gould

Rod Johnson

Duane Rinde

Jane Dolkart

Lin Delaney

Ed Slavin

Office of Human Rights