1997
Michael Palm*
Dr. David Ho
1998
Wafaa El-Sadr
Dr. Mathilde Krim*
1999
Dr. Harold Varmus
Irene Diamond*
Spencer Cox*
2000
Tom Viola, BC/EFA
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
Lynda M. Dee, Esq.
2001
Gregg Gonsalves
Michael Cunningham
Dr. Art Ammann*
2002
Peter Staley
Dr. John Moore
Laurie Garrett
Gene Falk
2003
Jane Silver
Dr. William E. Paul*
Bill T. Jones
Martin Delaney, Project Inform*
2004
JP Morgan Chase Private Bank (Steve Schroko)
Dr. Gerald Friedland
Eve Ensler
2005
John Waters
Dr. Bruce R. Schackman
Senator Thomas K. Duane
2006
Terrence McNally*
Dr. Donna Futterman
Dr. Judith Auerbach
2007
David Mixner*
Christine C. Quinn
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
2008
Doris Roberts*
Sally Morrison
Florent Morellet
Ambassador Mark Dybul
2009
David Hyde Pierce
Dr. Michel Kazatchkine
Dr. Roy M. (Trip) Gulick
Simon Doonan
2010
James Wentzy
Dr. Steven Deeks
Scott P. Campbell
2011
Dr. Robert F. Siliciano
John Benjamin Hickey
Dr. Polly Harrison
2012
Judith Light
Dr. Paul Farmer*
Jon Cohen
Dr. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
2013
Dr. Joseph Sonnabend*
Olympia Dukakis*
Anderson Cooper
2014
Dr. Mary T. Bassett
Christopher Tepper & Paul Kelterborn
Gregorio Millett
Fred Hersch
Dr. Eric Goosby
Alan Cumming
2015
Dr. Jack Whitescarver
Jim Eigo
Chelsea Clinton
Matt Bomer & Simon Halls
2016
Barbara Hughes
Margaret Russell
Rosie Perez
Daniel Lee/Levi Strauss & Co.
2017
Charles King
Joseph Evall, JD
Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH
2018
Jenna Wolfe (Special TAG Award)
Dr. Margaret Hamburg
Masha Gessen
Joy Tomchin
2019
Liza Minnelli (Special Award in California)
Dr. John B. Steever
Amanda Lugg
Matthew Lopez
David France
2020
National Nurses United (Bonnie Castillo)
Wakefield
Sharon Stone
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
2021
Dr. Rochelle Walensky
Erica Lessem
Ivy Kwan Arce
2022
Karl Schmid, Courage in Action Award (Special Award in California)
Ann Northrop
Laura Morrison
Dr. Amita Gupta
Dr. Kelly Elise Dooley
2023
The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Mercedes C. Becerra, ScD; Jennifer J. Furin, MD, PhD; Soumya Swaminathan, MD)
Latino Commission on AIDS (Guillermo Chacón)
Asa Radix, MD, PhD, MPH, FIDSA
2024
Dafina Ward, JD, Executive Director, Southern AIDS Coalition
Cynthia Carr, Author and Activist
Keith Alcorn, former Senior Editor aidsmap
Tom Viola, Lifetime in Action Award
Joe McConnell, Commitment in Action Award
*Deceased