Monette-Horwitz Trust Advisory Committee

Primarily composed of friends and colleagues of Paul Monette, the Advisory Committee includes representatives of literary, scholarly, archival, and activist pursuits within the LGBT communities. The volunteer Committee is responsible for annual research and recommendation of honorees to the Trustee in order to fulfill the mission of the Monette-Horwitz Trust. The Committee regrets that it is unable to consider solicitations for award consideration.

Chris Freeman has a Ph.D in English from Vanderbilt University. He is co-editor of the Lambda Award-winning The Isherwood Century as well as Conversations With Christopher Isherwood and the forthcoming Love, West Hollywood: Reflections of Los Angeles. He lives in West Hollywood and teaches at the University of Southern California.

Eric Gutierrez is the author of Disciples of the Street: The Promise of a Hip-Hop Church (Seabury Books). Writing on the nexus of religion, politics and culture his commentary has appeared in the LA Times, Newsday, The Jerusalem Post, The Advocate, Out, and Tu Ciudad and on radio, including Air America and Progressive Talk AM. He teaches in the Critical Studies Department at the California Institute of the Arts.

Bernice Horwitz, the mother of Roger Horwitz, holds an honorary position on the Advisory Committee.

Dan Luckenbill, on staff at UCLA Library, recruited and processed Paul Monette's papers. Luckenbill's stories appeared in gay liberation journals and his Christopher Isherwood memoir appeared in the Lambda Literary Award-winning The Isherwood Century. He is secretary of the Board of Directors, ONE Institute and Archives, Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Nonas, author of screenplays, novels, and short stories, is Associate Professor in the Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts Department at Ithaca College where she teaches screenwriting as well as writing videogames and immersive media.

Lisa Powell is an activist and attorney in Los Angeles. She is co-founder of United Lesbians of African Heritage (ULOAH).

Mark Thompson is the author of several books on gay culture and history, including Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning, cited by Lambda Book Report as "among the 100 books that changed our lives." A journalist and Senior Editor at The Advocate for 20 years, he is currently touring an exhibit of his photographic work, "Fellow Travelers: Liberation Portraits," around the nation. In May 2008, Thompson and his longtime partner, Malcolm Boyd, were given Pioneer Awards by the Lambda Literary Foundation for their lifetime achievements in activism and the arts.

Winston Wilde is the surviving lover of Paul Monette. He is a sexologist and psychotherapist in Beverly Hills. He has recently published Legacies of Love: A Heritage of Queer Bonding.

Terry Wolverton is the author of six books: Embers, a novel in poems; Insurgent Muse, a memoir; Bailey's Beads, a novel; and three collections of poetry: Black Slip, Mystery Bruise, and Shadow and Praise. In a former life, she was the Executive Director of the Woman's Building; she is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center where she teaches workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is also Associate Faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.