Anne Nicol Gaylor, the principal founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and president from 1978-2004, was given a surprise Emperor Has No Clothes Award on October 29, 2004, at the end of a tribute the year she formally stepped down as president. In her years of outspoken feminist and freethought activism, where her common-sense pronouncements on the harm of religion turned her into a media lightning rod, nobody better embodies the child in the fairy tale who "tells it like it is." Read on for tributes:
Anne Gaylor--Mentor and Friend, by Anne Treseder
Tributes to Anne Nicol Gaylor by Ken Taubert & Catherine Fahringer
Tribute from Prof. Michael Hakeem
Tributes from Marjorie & Philip Appleman, & from Alice Cleveland Shiver
Two Toasts to Anne Gaylor, by Constance Fuller Threinen
Photo by Brent Nicastro.