{"id":213359,"date":"2026-06-08T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213359\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:42:09","slug":"the-2026-stonewall-awards-brunch-honors-local-people-organizations-who-support-lgbtq-community-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213359\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Stonewall Awards Brunch honors local people, organizations who support LGBTQ+ community in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/epgn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia Gay News<\/a> hosted the 2026 Stonewall Awards &amp; Pride Brunch, an annual ceremony which honors local people and organizations that have made a positive impact on the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The ceremony was held on Sunday, June 7 at the Arts Ballroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">6abc&#8217;s Adam Joseph was the emcee for the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This year&#8217;s awardees were:<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">-Jacen Bowman, president of Philly Black Pride<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">-Ashley K. Lunkenheimer, general counsel and chief compliance officer at Ennoble Care<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">-Alex Niedbalski-Sykes, co-founder and president of the Philadelphia Sisters<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">-Councilman Mark Squilla, who represents City Council&#8217;s First District<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">-Philly Pride Visitor Center, a dedicated LGBTQ+ visitor center located at 12th and Locust streets in Philadelphia&#8217;s Gayborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Find out more about this year&#8217;s event and the awardees at <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/epgn.com\/2026\/05\/21\/pgn-announces-2026-stonewall-awards-honoring-leaders-and-institutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">epgn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The Philadelphia Gay News hosted the 2026 Stonewall Awards &amp; Pride Brunch, an annual ceremony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93419,9747,25517,8987,10547,69,71,70,74606],"class_list":["post-213359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-93419","tag-awards","tag-brunch","tag-lgbtq","tag-no-ta","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-pride-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}