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Award for people who impact LGBT lives From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Stonewall Awards was an annual event held by the British charity Stonewall to recognise people who have affected the lives of British lesbian, gay, bi and trans people. The event was first held in 2006 at the Royal Academy of Arts and from 2007 was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was held for the final time, with '...of the Decade' categories, in 2015.[1]
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2006
The inaugural event was held at the Royal Academy of Arts.[2][3]
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2007
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2008
Stonewall nominated Julie Bindel for the 2008 Journalist of the Year award. This nomination was controversial due to her view on transsexualism and lead to a protest taking place outside of the awards venue.[4][5][6]
2009
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2010
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2011
Held on 3 November 2011.[9][10]
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2012
The 2012 awards were held on 1 November,[11][12] with the award of "Bigot of the Year" to Cardinal Keith O'Brien drawing protest from the Catholic Church in Scotland,[13][14] of which he was head. Criticism of the bigot award from the winner of the Politician of the Year award, Ruth Davidson, lead to her being "booed off-stage".[15]
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2013
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2014
2015
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