San Francisco-based filmmaker Nancy D.KATES won widespread acclaim for Their
Own Vietnam (1995), her master’s thesis for Stanford University’s Documentary Film program. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard
Rustin (2003), which chronicled the life
of the trailblazing-and openly gay-civil
rights leader Bayard Rustin, won KATES the
2004 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding
Documentary and more than 25 other
accolades.