Lynn Berling-Manuel
Lynn Berling-Manuel, the CEO and Publisher of Soccer America magazine, one of the most respected soccer magazines and soccer information companies in the world. Chris Daley
Daley was named Pride Law Fund’s Tom Steel Fellow and began work at the National Center for Lesbian Rights as the coordinator of the Transgender Law Project. Working with NCLR staff and a project advisory committee, Daley created California’s first direct services practice for transgender legal issues. Kathy Garver
Most fondly remembered for her starring role as “Cissy” in the long running CBS international television hit, “Family Affair”, Kathy Garver has also garnered critical acclaim in movies, stage, radio, voice-over animation, and audio book narration. Geoffrey Kors
Geoffrey Kors is the Executive Director of Equality California (EQCA), California's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lobbying organization. Armistead Maupin
Author and Activist. Though Armistead Maupin was one of the first of a new breed of openly gay authors, his appeal has always resided in his inclusiveness as a storyteller. His beloved characters from 28 Barbary Lane in the Tales of the City series have cut an unprecedented path through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to six internationally bestselling novels to a Peabody Award-winning miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Billy Campbell, and Thomas Gibson. Tara Nicholle Nelson

Peggy Orenstein
Orenstein is the author, of the memoir, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother (Bloomsbury USA). She has served as Managing Editor of Mother Jones magazine, and was a founding senior editor of 7 Days, a weekly magazine on New York City politics, arts and style. She was also an associate editor of Manhattan, inc. magazine and an assistant editor at Esquire. Lisa Orrell

Sally Pipes
President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979 to champion freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility for all individuals by advancing free-market policy solutions. Shum Preston

Richard Rodriguez
Noted prose stylist, teacher, journalist, and educational consultant, in addition to writing, lecturing and appearing frequently on the PBS program, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. A Mexican-American writer who became famous for his 1982 book, "Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez", Marc H. Rudov
Marc H. Rudov has gained a worldwide reputation as an authority on male-female relationships and men's rights. He is the author of The Man's No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet Earth™. Kriss Worthington