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Huddersfield's local paper, The Examiner, provided the glitz and glamour for its annual Community Awards in June. The evening was a recognition of those people who live and work in the district and who, through their dedication, courage, and often determination to help others, were hournoured.
Shout!'s Paul Hunt attended the event with PC Mark Carter (pictured, with his partner Dannie Mason) who was nominated for the Emergency Services Personality Of The Year award.
PC Carter has undoubtedbly been a trailblazer for gay police officers in West Yorkshire in recent years. Nominated for an award for his service to the gay community, the Huddersfield public and supporting the reporting of hate crime, Carter is now focussing his efforts on helping to boost the bone marrow appeal set up by local journalist Adrian Sudbury.
Just three months into his service with the force, Carter took the very brave decision to come out to his colleagues and bosses.The decision was met with acclaim from people in the job and the public.
Regular readers of Shout! will recall his winning Mr Gay UK in 2006, gaining second place in Mr Gay Europe in August 2007 and third place at Mr Gay International in February this year.
The awards ceremony, held at Hudderfield's Galpharm Stadium, was hosted by Roy Wright, editor of the Huddersfiled Daily Examiner, and ITN news presenter Nina Hossain
Since handing over his Mr Gay UK crown, Carter has continued to raised funds for the Albert Kennedy Trust through his charity calendar and recently has urged more gay men to join the national bone marrow register, as a policy change by the Anthony Nolan Trust - which runs one of the two UK bone marrow donor registers -means gay men are now no longer excluded from becoming donors.
Carter told Shout!: ‘It was a real honour to be nominated for a community award - all the winners so deserved recognition, I am so proud to be part of the Huddersfield community.'
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