“Among these various honorees, they were recognizing my work in the LGBT community in relation to aging,” Gant, 47, originally of Tampa, told the Miami Herald. “Because LGBT elderly didn’t for the most part create families, the incidence of being old and alone — there’s a much higher likelihood of it.”
Also honored with Gant at the Betsy Hotel in South Beach were Jupiter Police Chief Frank Kitzerow; Guatemalen immigrant Onesimo Lopez-Ramos who was beaten to death because of his nationality; Angela King, the deputy director of Life After Hate — a group for individuals who have left extremist groups; and Miami’s Steven Stoloff, a journalist who was kidnapped near near Aleppo, Syria, and publicly executed in August 2013 by ISIS.
