Now in its fifteenth year, this year’s awards will be held on Sunday, December 11^th, at the elegant MidTown Loft, located at 267 Fifth Avenue (at East 29^th Street) in New York City. Again this year, our host for the 2011 awards presentations is Jenna Wolfe, weekend anchor on NBC’s “Today Show.”

TAG is proud to present its 2011 RIAA Awards to:

• John Benjamin Hickey won the 2011 Tony Award for best featured actor in a play for his performance in the revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart. He made his Broadway debut in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! and reprised his part in the film version. He has also appeared on Broadway in The Crucible, Mary Stuart, and the Tony Award winning revival of Cabaret, opposite Natasha Richardson. His film work includes Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, The Ice Storm, The Anniversary Party, and has appeared on televsion in Me and My Shadows: Life with Judy Garland, Sex and the City, the Good Wife, and many more. He is about to start shooting the third season of Showtime's The Big C, playing Laura Linney's crazy brother.
• Dr. Polly Harrison, Founder of the Alliance for Microbicide Development, whose trail-blazing advocacy for woman-controlled prevention methods led to the discovery last year of an effective topical vaginal gel which reduced HIV acquisition by 44% among sexually active women in South Africa.

• Dr. Robert F. Siliciano, Medical Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who made groundbreaking discoveries in the late 1990s which demonstrated the size and location of the reservoir of latently infected CD4 T cells which present the main target for HIV cure research. Currently his lab is leading the search for new curative approaches.