Leroy F. Aarons Scholarship Award

Deadline: 5/20/2024

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Leroy F. Aarons dedicated his life to journalism. He believed that the LGBTQ+ community could advance if the news media fairly and accurately portrayed the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals and their issues. This simple but visionary idea became the foundation for NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. Aarons knew that coverage of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as that of other minority communities, required increasing sophistication and training for journalists. He realized early that improving coverage had to start in the training camps for young journalists – journalism schools at the nation’s colleges and universities.