Oklahomans for Equality’s

2010 Award Recipients

Lifetime Achievement Award
Kelly Kirby

Russell Bennett Spiritual Inclusion Award
Rabbi Charles P. Sherman
Temple Israel

Community Hero
Karen L. Davis
Senior Progam Officer
Tulsa Community Foundation
and Tulsa Reaches Out

Community Hero
Gay Phillips & Sue Barton
Sharon Baldwin & Mary Bishop
Oklahoma Marriage Lawsuit Defendants

Volunteers of the Year
Eric Vogelpohl
Don Satterthwaite
Andrew Hicks

Information Technology Team

Grand Marshal
2010 Pride Parade and Festival
Rev Marlin Lavanhar
Senior Pastor
All Souls Unitarian Church

Oklahomans for Equality expresses our deep gratitude to Rev. Marlin Lavanhar,
senior minister at All Souls Unitarian Church who traveled to Uganda to speak against a controversial bill that would allow the death penalty for certain same-sex behavior. Homosexual behavior is already illegal in Uganda, carrying prison sentences of up to 14 years. President of Oklahomans for Equality Toby Jenkins said

“Rev Lavanhar is a champion for the victims of discrimnation and imitates the great faith leaders of the past. He heard the cries of an oppressed and doomed people and left the comfort and security of his homeland and has denounced religious and cruel homophobia dressed in government policy.”