Watkins Earns First Cox Scholarship from UAB School of Public Health
University of Alabama at BirminghamExpelled from the Naval Academy for being gay, the Rev. Tommy Watkins Jr., L.G.S.W., has earned the inaugural Billy R. Cox Endowed Scholarship. Watkins is a doctoral candidate in the UAB School of Public Health. The scholarship is named for the late Billy R. Cox, a beloved Birmingham AIDS activist and gay-rights leader.