Last weekend NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists awarded an Excellence in Journalism Award for an essay adapted from The Queer Face of War and published in The New York Times last year.

The piece told the story of Oleksii Polukhin, a survivor of queer persecution by Russian forces, and argued that targeting queer people in armed conflict should be prosecuted as a crime against humanity. NLGJA recognized the essay for excellence in opinion writing.

Read the full essay here.