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year; the GCLS created the Ann Bannon GCLS Popular Choice Award. She was the recipient of the Alice B Award in 2008, that goes to authors whose careers have been distinguished by consistently well-written stories about lesbians. In May 2008, Bannon was given the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation.
In 2012, she was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the LGBT History Month.
Legacy In retirement.
Ann Bannon retired from teaching and college administration at California State University, Sacramento
and graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889. Bannon had two brothers, Arthur H. Bannon and James W. Bannon, Jr., and a sister Charlotte Bannon.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1891 and practiced in Portsmouth, Ohio, along with his brother Arthur and his father, both of whom were attorneys, as well.
He served as prosecuting attorney of Scioto County 1897-1902.
Bannon was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and