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1999 - Sven Robinson, former Member of Parliament for Vancouver-Kingsway 2000 - Mark Tewkesbury, Canada’s gold medalist at the Barcelona Olympic Games (1992) 2001 - Pat Griffin, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, a leading researcher on homophobia in school and university sports 2002 - Joe Arvay, Q.C., the lawyer who took the Chamberlain et al vs The Board of Trustees of School District No. 36 (Surrey) (The “Surrey Book Banning Case”) to the Supreme Court of Canada…and won 2003 - Bishop John Shelby Spong, the widely published and well-known liberal Episcopalian theologian 2004 - Laramie Project, five performances of Moisés Kaufman’s play on the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard 2005 - Respect for Sexual Diversity Troupe (Saskatoon) 2006—Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, performance artists (Winnipeg) 2007 - Prairie Pride Chorus (Regina) 2008 - A tribute to members of the “1978 Committee to Defend Doug Wilson” 2009 - Kate Bornstein, New York performance artist 2010 - The Honourable Scott Brison, P.C., M.P. (Kings-Hants) 2011 - Marci McDonald, Author of The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada