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This year’s Love Is Love Gala was rooted in a simple idea—one that echoes Dan Savage’s reminder that when things feel heavy, when the world asks us to shrink or disappear, we cry, we rage… and then we dance, because it is the dance we are fighting for. And that is exactly what our community did.

Black LGBTQIA+ history is often presented as a sidebar — a short list of influential figures, a cultural reference, or a commemorative moment attached to broader movement timelines. That framing is incomplete. It overlooks the reality that Black queer and trans communities have helped shape the political frameworks, organizing strategies, and systems of care that made LGBTQIA+ rights movements possible in the first place. This history is not about later inclusion. It is about

Every time you show up.Every dollar you donate.Every person you refer.You keep this community alive.And as we move into our winter fundraising season, your support becomes even more essential. Winter giving sustains the programs that carry our community through the entire year. Here’s what your generosity makes possible: