OUR 2025 HONOREES
GayRidge
2025 Lambda Award Honoree
GayRidge is a LGBTQ+ community group in South Brooklyn. Their mission is to help queer people and allies connect and support one another, especially in a part of Brooklyn that has historically been tougher for queer individuals than others.
GayRidge is involved in dozens of community events, and is an active fundraiser for everything ranging from suicide prevention to the Ali Forney Center.
Caribbean Equality Project
2025 Lambda Award Honoree
Caribbean Equality Project is a Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrant rights organization in NYC. The organization advocates for and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ people through culturally responsive community organizing, public education, healing, civic engagement, racial justice, health & gender equity, legislative advocacy, immigration, and ending hate violence in the Caribbean diaspora.
Founded in 2015 in response to anti-LGBTQ violence in Richmond Hill, Queens, has been actively supporting the community. It hosts bi-monthly Unchained support groups in Queens and Brooklyn, offers immigration legal services for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, and organizes art exhibitions. The project also addresses food insecurity and fosters civic engagement through programs focused on voting rights and legislative advocacy in New York State.
Epiphanny Prince
2025 Lambda Award Honoree
Epiphanny “Piph” Prince is a 14-year WNBA veteran and two-time champion. In 2024, she was hired by the New York Liberty to serve as their first-ever Director of Player and Community Engagement. Epiphanny gained national attention when she broke Cheryl Miller's 24-year-old girls' high school girls single-game scoring record, scoring 113 points in a February 1, 2006 game in New York City.
The New York native played for the Liberty twice, including leading the team to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2015. She then went to Seattle, helping the Storm win the 2020 WNBA title. She returned home last season to end her career with New York. Epiphanny was one of the first players to leave college early to turn professional, skipping her senior year. She played in Europe for a year before getting drafted in the WNBA.
Paul “Boomer” Ullrich
2025 Clyde Moss Honoree
Boomer Ullrich is a political consultant who joined LID in 2018 and now serves on its Executive Board as Vice President of Operations. He credits the passionate community and purpose he found at LID for his decision to change majors from Mathematics to Political Science at Hunter College, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 2024. His LID leadership roles as Treasurer and VP of Operations prepared him for his current job as Project Manager for Ready, Aim, Innovate. RAI’s mission is to improve the policy-making process and policy outcomes by bringing together policy-makers with those affected by policies