of PfC, awarded MBE for work with PfC and on the GRB Tanya Compas, queer Black rights activist based in London A.E. Dyson, literary critic and founder of the Homosexual Law Reform Society Jackie Forster, actress, TV personality and lesbian campaigner Ray Gosling, writer, broadcaster and gay rights activist in the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. Antony Grey, Secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society; the public face of the Albany Trust Liam Hackett, founder of anti-bullying website and charity Ditch the Label Derek Jarman, film director Paris Lees, trans rights campaigner, part of Trans Media Watch Denis Lemon, Editor of Gay News, involved in blasphemy prosecution brought by Mary Whitehouse Andrew Moffat, LGBT education advocate, author and founder the No Outsiders programme Ian McKellen, actor and spokesperson for Stonewall (UK) Robert Mellors, 20th-century writer and Gay Liberation Front campaigner Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, British political activist and co-founder of UK Black Pride Paul Patrick, anti-homophobia activist and educator Saima Razzaq, LGBT inclusive education activist and Birmingham Pride Head of Diversity and Inclusion Michael Schofield, sociologist and early gay rights campaigner Michael Steed, Liberal politician, academic and gay rights activist in the Campaign for Homosexual Equality Ben Summerskill, former chief executive of Stonewall Peter Tatchell, politician, human rights and LGBT rights campaigner Stephen Whittle, trans rights campaigner and former vice president of PfC and president of HBIGDA, Law Professor at MMU, awarded OBE for work with PfC and on the GRB United States Kimball Allen, author of Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon and Be Happy Be Mormon Jacob Appel, New York City-based lawyer, advocate for reparations for gays and lesbians Gilbert Baker (1951–2017), designer of the rainbow flag Christopher R. Barron, co-founder of GOProud, a political organization representing gay conservatives Vic Basile, first executive director of the Human Rights Campaign Wayne Besen, founder of Truth Wins Out, former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign Elizabeth Birch, former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign Dustin Lance Black, founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights Chaz Bono, transgender son of Sonny Bono and Cher Jennifer Finney Boylan (1958 - ), transgender author, professor, and trans rights activist, former co-chair of GLAAD's National Board of Directors. David P. Brill (1955–1979), Boston-based journalist Blake Brockington (1996–2014), African American transgender rights activist. Judith Butler, philosopher and gender theorist Margarethe Cammermeyer, former colonel in the Washington National Guard whose coming out story was made