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The QF's 2011–12 High School Seniors English Essay Contest
Deadline: February 18, 2012
Click here for contest rules and an application
2011 Essay Contest Winners/Scholarship Recipients
Queer Scholars for 2011–12
Sarah Derheim
University of Michigan
Award-winning essay: "The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow"
Anthony Gomez
Queer Scholar without Stipend
Pomona College
Award-winning essay: "A Letter to You"
Abbey Muzatko
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Award-winning essay: "I Refuse Black and Blue"
Special Mention: Essays of Some Former QF Contest Participants
Former Queer Scholars
2010–11
Brandon Lambert
Point Park University
Award-winning essay: "Composing a Queer, Beautiful Future"
Awards and recognition
Cleveland Institute of Music Young Composer's Program
Sadie McCarney
Queer Scholar without Stipend
Award-winning essay: "Pansies in Print: Queer Literature, Social Identity, and the Definition of Community"
Awards and recognition
2009 First Place Winner, the Leonard Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize (Princeton University)
Jesus Zuniga
University of California, Santa Cruz
Award-winning essay: "Freedom!"
Awards and recognition
Certificate of Completion from Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs
2009–10
Jade Donigan
Portland Community College
Award-winning essay: "Strength in the Snake-pit: Defining the Gay Lifestyle"
Awards and recognition
Idaho State Drama Champion (Costume)
Hannah Kapp-Klote
Grinnell College
Award-winning essay: "LGBTILOL: Queer Youth and the Rise of Technology"
Awards and recognition
Second Place Council Award Representing the Free State Cuban Delegation at the University of Chicago Model United Nations Conference
Bryn Mawr Book Award
Calen P. Winn
Western Washington University
Award-winning essay: "A Routine Performance: One Young Queer's Journey to Identity on Liberal but Naive Vashon Island"
Awards and recognition
National Merit Commended Scholar
Questbridge Scholarship Finalist
2008–09
Christopher Chavez
University of Chicago
Award-winning essay: "In or Out"
Awards and recognition
1st Place, Public Speaking, FBLA Arizona Central Region
Geoffrey Mino
Brown University
Award-winning essay: "New Youth Rising"
Awards and recognition
Invited to be panelist and speaker at Equality Forum 2008, Philadelphia
National Merit Finalist
Ericka Sokolower-Shain
Wesleyan University
Award-winning essay: "Beyond the Line"
Awards and recognition
California Arts Scholar
Berkeley Mayor's Award
2007–08
Zachary Harrington
St.John's College
Award-winning essay: "Fairy Tales"
Awards and recognition
President, Kamiak Human Rights Awareness Club
Fifth Place in Boys 100-meter Backstroke, State Finals
Michael O'Brien
Temple University
Award-winning essay: "Lepidoptera"
Awards and recognition
2007 Presidential Scholar in the Arts
Author of Somnambulist (performed at 2005 NCTE convention)
Silver Medalist, NFAA ARTS Talent Search
2006–07
Jason Brown
San Francisco State University
Award-winning essay: "Magic Mirrors"
Awards and recognition
Best Pianist (school theatre department and school choirs)
Inland Valley Best Pianist (in "The Fantasticks")
Julianne Maynus
Rhode Island College
Award-winning essay: "Tens of Thousands of Queer Homeless Teens"
Awards and recognition
Holiday Art Contest Winner, Times Union newspaper
Featured in Sage Summer Art Show
Scarlett Sieber
Fordham University
Award-winning essay: "Awareness Will Allow Peace of Mind, Body, and Spirit"
Awards and recognition
1st Place in Entrepreneurship (Rotary Club)
MVP Award in Basketball
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