The City of West Hollywood is gathering nominations for its 2024 Rainbow Key Awards. The City’s Rainbow Key Awards recognize people who have made outstanding contributions to the LGBTQ+ community.
Nominations may be submitted electronically through the City’s website at www.weho.org/rainbowkey. Nomination forms are due by 11:59 p.m. PST on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. The newly formed LGBTQ+ Commission will review nominations and present recommendations to the West Hollywood City Council. The awards presentations for 2024 Rainbow Key Awards nominees are anticipated to take place during the second half of 2024.
Since 1993, the City of West Hollywood has presented Rainbow Key Awards to individuals and groups that have gone above and beyond in their service to the LGBTQ+ community. Contributions have come in many forms, including the arts, community service, humanitarian action, sports, medicine, armed services, leadership potential, benefit to the global LGBTQ+ community, and more. Past honorees have included activists, artists, civic leaders, educators, community organizations, and many others.
The City of West Hollywood will be hosting an event for its 2023 Rainbow Key Awards presentation, which is anticipated to take place in early 2024. Additional details will be made available when the date is confirmed. Stay informed by visiting the City’s website calendar at www.weho.org/calendar and opt-in to news updates and calendar e-notifications by signing up at www.weho.org/email.
For more information, please contact Moya Márquez, City of West Hollywood Community Programs Coordinator, at (323) 848-6574 or at mmarquez@weho.org.
I believe I should be nominated because my basic theme in live, “there are consequences for bad life choices”, (which seems to fall on deaf ears in the LGBT community), is something all should live by. Sure, many have told me “off the record”, things like “you’re 100% right, but I can’t say it publicly because they would take me off my commission”, etc. The city council’s theme, on the other hand, seems to be based solely on rewarding, compensating and subsidizing those who made bad life choices. I can’t wait for the exciting award ceremony, where they congratulate and… Read more »
Have often felt as though some of West Hollywood’s residents create the problem and then the City creates the exponential bureaucracy to deal with it and bestow awards. Highly recommend that many of these folks would be better served by going to the mountaintop and contemplating consciousness.